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5.0 classic
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No.15 in A major, Op.141
1971. As of the turn of the millennium, the greatest work of art ever. Art as the subject of art, within art-beyond-art. Satirizing the world at the same time as it shows it to you, both with the same fragments of the past. Post-apocalyptic only to the extent that everything is alone. Smothering attempts at movement. Finnegans Wake meets Beckett's trilogy, the inverted reliefs of one another. Is it everything or nothing? If there's a god to ascend to, the outro is the hallway there. The gates of the law which close before we can pass.

4.5 superb
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36
1976. Gorecki, with this symphony, was giving up on classical music's history. Every artist has to take a leap of faith to create something truly significant, but this is the embodiment of the most extreme leap of faith imaginable. Essentially jumping ship on the Titanic 2 miles from shore because you have a hunch. All of the past's structure, all of the respect of the contemporaries you've been spending your career around basically thrown away in favor of a bet on one chord. The type of gap that divine intervention bridges. Praying for some connection between the fragments of the past that you cobble together for 3 movements. Those pieces just happening to match your artistic struggle. No interviews, because you don't understand your own work. No category where it can be placed without being disingenuous. This composition is the near-lost fart in the wind that 10/10s often are. This recording is the jar that caught the fart downstream.
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
1825. The standard of perfection. Beyond individual expression, pure music is at its peak here.
Mikel Rouse Dennis Cleveland

4.0 excellent
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 8
1994. Psychological & metaphysical dimensions indifferentiable. That good stuff. Kafka, Robert Wyatt, yeah.
American Music Club Engine
1987. Enigmatic and brilliant. Purpose given to so many movements at once. The missing piece outside of the masterpieces that came out of slowcore and their students. The band that started it.
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
1899. Those who are unfamiliar with musical truth may be compelled to distance themselves from this work and retreat to less perfect creations. Those who are familiar with musical truth may be compelled to distance themselves from this work and advance to less perfect creations.
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Mikel Rouse Failing Kansas
Per Norgard Symphony No. 3
1975. All the symphonies at once. At this point in history, since it would be possible, I should specify that it is not literally every symphony played at once. It's simply a work that tries to wrap itself around all previous classical music, taking advantage of its existence in the present. It conceptually achieves this through a compositional technique that almost feels like meta-melody, in that it isn't quite melodic, but everything still somehow flows as one unit. It's pretty consistently overwhelming, and as a result of what's sort of a transcendental abstinence from other forms of composition, the work can't quite be characterized as beautiful or chaotic, which are otherwise seemingly the poles on either side of classical's spectrum. This is like totalism without the minimalism.
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft
2005. This is what classical music was looking for in the 2000s. But if it saw this album, the treasure along the path it was walking, it would probably write it off. Total sonic control. Complete compositional awareness. Toby Driver is a master of his craft. And the music here is otherworldly.

3.5 great
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 3
1981. Old stories with the dimensions of modernity. Someone has to bear the torch.
Allan Pettersson Violin Concerto No. 2
1980. 40 minute one-movement suite that does what it wants, with a preference for the pleasant. Kind of the ideal classical music. You like it because it's relatable, not because it tickles certain melodic biases we have. Good art, thank you Peterson-with-too-many-letters.
Bo Burnham what.
Charles Ives Symphony No. 4
1916. Cacophonic musical arrangement. True expression and authentic artistic decision that recreates uniquely and musically (rather than technically), the true spirit of the age.
Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande
1902. Fluid and natural in a way opera rarely is. Instead of symbolic musical description of individual events, the music exists as a separate entity dictated by the performance's tipping of ontological scales.
Father John Misty Chloe and the Next 20th Century
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
2012. My mistake with this album was thinking that he was playing with the idea of being Prince. It's more that he was playing OFF of the idea of being Prince. It almost becomes satire, and it adds charm to an otherwise archetypal persona. Makes more sense than there being the massive difference in level of perspective I saw between this album and Blonde. The theater of this album is almost absent from Blonde, and I think I used to have a more dismissive tone toward that kind of melodrama than I do now. The melodrama is the expression of real pain. It's not less honest, it's sincere in showing you that Frank wants you to understand. The "relatable" tropes of this album come from the same place. He wants you to think he wants the same things as you. Erasing individuality in order to achieve this sort of interconnected-everywhere-social-media level of connection that moves a step beyond just the supreme-horniness-for-literally-anyone-even-if-they're-the-worst of something like Twin Fantasy, which marked the end of an era. But this album marks the birth of a new one just as much as Good Kid m.A.A.d. City or Fear Fun.
Gettovetts Missionaries Moving
Johann Sebastian Bach Complete Cello Suites
John Corigliano Symphony No. 1
1989. God, it's really honest. It really means it. It's warm, but because it wants to be.
Corigliano was an empathetic composer, which seems like an oxymoron. Corigliano truly wants this
music to be worth being played. The fact that it exists by the same terms as everything else makes
it almost intimate to listen to. It also unites it with contemporary works outside of the
relatively abstract field of classical by, to some degree, considering you, which is the tiniest
way of reaching out imaginable, but 8.5/10 degrees of impossible for classical.
Kanye West Donda
Kayo Dot Hubardo
Love Of Life Orchestra Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra
1986
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Mississippi John Hurt The Original 1928 Recordings
Morton Feldman For Philip Guston
Richard Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

3.0 good
Alfred Schnittke Cello Concerto No. 1
1985. Schnittke stays on top of things, whether he knows it or not, he's on the Branca wavelength.
Probably the best wavelength for a classical composer to be on at the time. Independently, he
creates an alternate form of totalism, which replaces the punk with Shostakovich.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti FF >>
2001. Plus Scared Famous
Arvo Part Tabula Rasa
1977. A metaphysical cohesion in this which Steve Reich's music didn't have, which replaces the universal Bach-like indifference of Steve Reich's structures.
Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas
Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
Bladee x ECCO2K Crest
Blue Gene Tyranny Out of the Blue
Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs)
2021. THIS JUST IN: bargain bin Pure Comedy still the bargain bin version of the greatest thing ever made.
Camille Saint-Saens Symphony No.3, Op.78
1886. Not many pieces of this time can you hear the truth. Which is what makes it all the more
impressive when you notice at times during this work that you're FEELING it. So beautiful that
even if you wanted to ban it, you wouldn't want to.
Charles Mingus Epitaph
1962.
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Dmitri Shostakovich Opera: The Nose, Op.15
Duke Ellington Reminiscing in Tempo (Parts I-IV)
Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations
2005. A concept album about Everett's entire life before their career picked up. Could be read into in relation to the development of rock and birth of post-rock. This is a more detailed thesis of the past than Kozelek's on Benji, but at the same time less specific. The connections to history this work can elicit do not themselves connect to one another but are far more frequent and clear than they would be in a more detailed work. They're blips of spiritual connections between Everett and the rest of art.
Franz Schubert "Great" Symphony No. 9 in C major, D.944
Glenn Branca The Ascension
Harry Partch Delusion of the Fury
Harry Partch Revelation in the Courthouse Park
Henry Cowell Symphony No. 11
1953. Cowell, in a time where music didn't have any more rules, was one of many composers battling for their history to remain intact. This is the closest that school of thought gets to giving up. But somehow, in an almost triumphant way. As if Cowell took the opposite route from giving up and mistook the fire of his opponent for the brightness of enlightenment.
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 2
1972.
Iannis Xenakis Persepolis
Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix
2021. They didn't have to do any of this. In great modern music, the composition of the work is mostly symbolic. Made of an arrangement of styles rather than notes or feelings. And often, the music's style is just what the composer WANTED it to be. But the person who wanted this is dead. So why does it exist? Because the need to create it had to go somewhere. With an underlying constant of performers taking up an impossible task, filling shoes that aren't theirs, this work is an honest one, a funny one, a dark one, and a hopeful one.
James Ferraro Alternative Soundtrack: Scream in Blue Surf Video
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
2006. In relation to Choirs of the Eye, Dowsing Anemone leans further toward the anything-music of In The Library Loft. This album has many of those wonderful moments where sound is just completely controlled.
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
2008. The only other album I can think of whose vocal performance interacts this well with the compositions is Astral Weeks. The style at hand here is brilliant.
Leos Janacek Glagolitic Mass
1926. Glagolitic? Okay. I do know what it is for sure... creative and original. Almost like a precursor to the album. With compositional style to match. Eclectic, and delightful in all it eclects. Seems now to me to be the definitive statement of modernism in music.
Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern
2021. Structurally, nothing else from Lil Ugly Mane's discography or 2021 holds a candle to this album's assembly. The way each of these songs is designed puts everything in the right place to create the perfect tone. If Lil Ugly Mane was trying to convince you of something with his albums before this one, here he's finally showing you. And he finally gets to chill with the geniuses of this era.
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131
1825. Beethoven beats Bach at his own game. If classical music was one thing before this, it was something else afterward.
Lullaby for the Working Class Song
Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
1874. Impressionism's birth. Something I was surprised to find. An innovation that, at the time, was just program-less program music, later revealed itself to be the predecessor to all experimental art.
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Also sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Death and Transfiguration
STABSCOTCH Uncanny Valley
Stephen Sondheim Sunday in the Park With George - Broadway
1984. Broadway musical with enough self respect to treat itself like art, with a story centered around artistic creation and composition closer to contemporary composers than show tunes.
Steve Reich Tehillim
1981. This is the Flower Boy of Steve Reich's career.
The Band The Band
This Kind Of Punishment A Beard Of Bees
To Live and Shave in L.A. The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
2002. Twin Infinitives is to candy what The Wigmaker is to porn.
To Live and Shave in L.A. Noon and Eternity
2006. The complexity and energy of the fragmented monolith that was Wigmaker is traded in for tension and grandeur in the form of longform musical death stars.
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman
Wipers Youth of America

2.5 average
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 1
1972. Sort of like you threw classical music history in a blender. A bit late to the party, after John Fahey had been doing it for a while, but the complexity and commitment here matches in magnitude the boost in quality you'd get for absolute originality.
American Music Club The Restless Stranger
1985. Isolation proven by music that has no contemporary. Nebraska's epilogue.
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178
Antonio Vivaldi Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op.8
1725. Most popular of all time and for quite apparent reason. No god stuff, no technical doohickeying. When travelling through the western canon, this is the kind of thing you pass by that makes you do a double take, because it approaches you in a sea of relatively tame Bach, Corelli and Handel. Find a recording that plays it fast.
Benjamin Britten War Requiem
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Black Country New Road Ants from Up There
Car Seat Headrest Nervous Young Man
2013. Promises to be more ambitious and relevant than other Car Seat Headrest albums, and in pushing that side of the scales and succeeding, either loses or doubles down on the spontaneity. Either way, leaving the sweet spot.
Carlo Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsoria
1611. If you love seeing the cosmos blended with the spiritual realm, I bet I can guess your 1611 AOTY.
Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor
1888. SYMPHONY ITSELF. Yeah, rarely do you see such significance granted to the ambition required to make a symphony in the first place. Here, the symphony has many dimensions. Not just symphonic ones. Fuck classical music. This symphony is for the real ones.
Codeine Frigid Stars
Daniel Rossen You Belong There
David Peel & The Lower East Side Have a Marijuana
Dawuna Glass Lit Dream
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, op. 118
Eduard Tubin Symphony No. 8
1966. It's strange that even after listening to as much classical music as I have, I still have separate spots in my brain for it and rock/jazz. Analyzing classical music feels more like interpreting a dream than it feels like listening to prog. I see composers like they're invisible. So why on earth do I wanna have a beer with this guy?
Einojuhani Rautavaara Symphony No. 7 (Angel of Light)
1994. Almost seems like it was composed without the use of anything that would dilute the Rautavaara's spiritual expression. Shame the performers had to perform it. Always a tough hurdle for the composer to overcome.
Erik Satie 3 Gymnopédies & Other Piano Works (Pascal Rogé)
Fausto Romitelli An Index of Metals
2003. Ambitious, diverse, and cold, with the ultimate result being an uncomfortable reflection of artificiality. Set in the uncanny valley that is Nowadays.
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
1828. Very happy. Triumphant almost. Can't tell if it's me or Schubert though.
Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic
George Frideric Handel Messiah, HWV 56
1741. The life of Jesus Christ. You weren't there, but this is pretty good.
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
1924. Difficult to tell if this is great because I listened to it in the midst of a bunch of jazzlessness or if it's great because it was released in the midst of classical jazzlessness.
Gloria Coates Symphony No. 14
2003. "Symphony in microtones" What why is it marketing itself like that, that's not a new idea,
oh god this is gonna suck. *listens to album* What the hell? She knows what she's doing.
Guillaume De Machaut Messe De Notre Dame
13XX. As if the form of Christian Everything-is-Good-ism that music adopted at this point manifested itself in compositions that touch every note and move around in the right ways. Brings your mind to the metaphysical. I can see this as the conceptual point where art music started.
Harry Partch U.S. Highball
Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
1830. Fantastique indeed. Post-Schubert pre-Wagner classic. Not many of those. At least that I've heard. I like it when they take Beethoven seriously.
Iannis Xenakis La Légende d'Eer
Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
Igor Stravinsky Petrushka
1911. This and The Rite of Spring are equally noteworthy in my eyes. Obviously this one did not quite incite the madness of the other, but the unique identity that truly makes Rite of Spring great meets its match here. Ballet that's just as physical without dancers.
James Ferraro Far Side Virtual
James Ferraro Live at Primavera Sound 2012
Jean Barraque Piano Sonata
1952. Postmodern maximalism in musical form. Non-musical equivalent being something like... The Recognitions?
Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
2001. Jim O'Rourke is an odd character. You find him all over where you shouldn't and then you can't find what HE particularly is when you look at his discography full of Drone and Pop and American Primitivism and noise. Well, the rest of the stuff lends some credit to the pop. Almost like it exists just so this doesn't get written off as Rockin Jo Jackson. In between Sun Kil Moon and Mew.
John Lewis Jazz Abstractions
Jonathan Wilson Gentle Spirit
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
2003. Toby Driver is the greatest composer in metal. This is unlike anything else.
Krzysztof Penderecki Seven Gates of Jerusalem (Symphony No. 7)
1996. The DAMN. of the 20th Century.
Love Of Life Orchestra Extended Niceties
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2
1801. Don't be tempted to deny Moonlight of its brilliance. This isn't a fur elise type situation.
Lullaby for the Working Class I Never Even Asked for Light
Max Roach We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Mentallo and the Fixer Revelations 23
Michael Gordon Van Gogh
1991. Opera not too shy for drums n whatnot. The spirit of totalism, but not necessarily the compositional application. Which is almost better, seeing as most totalism is all too focused on the composition, and very little on the spirit. Michael Gordon is a great composer, because he cares about what his pieces do more than about what he puts into them. And because he has little reserve. Control the sound, my friend.
Michael Nyman Water Dances
1984. Minimalism becoming totalism just by virtue of the minimalism being so profoundly excellent. That's the absolute it achieves.
Night Control Death Control
2009. Underneath the recording quality, there's a whole bunch going on. Like beyond even Car Seat Headrest levels.
Pandora's Box Original Sin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky "Pathétique" Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74
1893. A confession with no absolution. Something which becomes more and more common in art afterwards.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 In F Minor, Op. 36
1878. Crowdpleasing devastation. Music as the inciting factor in an important handshake. Disgusting and evocative of all the simultaneouses it's trying to hide. Incredibly honest. Whether it knows or not.
Richard Pryor Live and Smokin'
Richard Strauss Burleske
Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites
2005. Sick sludge to contemplate to [x8]
Stephen Sondheim Assassins - Original Cast Recording
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich The Desert Music
1983. The refraction wiggles on the horizon. You can hear it in the wiggly music. The endless oppressive forces of reality manifest in a work of minimalism endless until you can't see it anymore. Minimalism is excellent at playing off of our perception, and here, you feel it as the predominant element of the art.
Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air
1969. Proto-programmatic minimalism. beep beep. soundwaves, lightwaves? no difference to me.
The Arms of Someone New Susan Sleepwalking
The Flaming Lips Embryonic
2009. The Flaming Lips' best album is from 1987... is what I THOUGHT, before this album equaled it.
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year
2010. Avant-garde opera about evolution. Evokes Fantasia Rite of Spring imagery. Pre-historic boiling earth. Why are you hearing about it from the mouths of people from 2010? The boiling of the earth was a long time ago. Well, because it's trying to boil down evolution to its bare essentials. It incorporates all of these experimental styles into itself to try to cheese their way into innovation by invoking the original innovation, little fish guys crawling out of water.
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields The Charm Of The Highway Strip
1994. Concept record about transportation. Really really sad about transportation. OK Computers be warned.
This Kind Of Punishment This Kind Of Punishment
This Kind Of Punishment In The Same Room
Tod Machover VALIS
1987. Absolute madness. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel I haven't read, and thus a schizophrenic barrage of unbearable narrative confusion. Which I imagine it would be if I DID read the novel.

2.0 poor
Alexander Scriabin Le Poeme de l'extase, Op. 54
Alfred Schnittke "St. Florian" Symphony No. 2
1979. Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the schnittkiest of them all? It's still Schnittke, but as he takes on a more serious tone, Symphony No. 2's choral arrangements build off of those of Ligeti and whatnot in the same all-encompassing manner with which he built off Shostakovich, supreme all-around musical master, in his first symphony. And the style's impression is profound.
Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor
1883. Easy to tell that some of these guys were perfecting the form at the time. This is one of those works that just screams "alright, we're done here, time to move on." In a good way, of course.
Antonin Dvorak String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B.179
Bela Bartok Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48
1911. Castle-y music indeed. Not just for gothic reasons. Mostly spatial ones. Colorful as well.
Not necessarily blue, but that's not a failing of the work. Yet to read the libretto, but so far
it lives up to its title.
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Die Dreigroschenoper
1928
Blue Gene Tyranny and Peter Gordon [1976] Trust in Rock: Your New Concept in Music
Cecil Taylor Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
1962.
Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60
1915. Just the Sonata. One of the more perfect works of Ives. His composition usually revolves around multiple arrangements clashing with one another, and here, he's only working with one instrument.
Charles Mingus Blues & Roots
Colosseum Valentyne Suite
Constance Demby Novus Magnificat: Through The Stargate
1986. Sugar rush music. Sugary cereal as a vehicle of transcendence. The ultimate sugar rush. Swans could never.
Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1987. Neoclassical Darkwave, yeah no kidding. Let it be known I wasn't expecting something like this coming from Lingua Ignota and Anna Von Hausswolff. For this is far more classical than those.
Dean Blunt The Redeemer
Diamanda Galas Plague Mass
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G Minor,
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
1940. Ahh, Shosto's filling up the cracks of classical again, and he's doin it good! What emotions will be left once he's done?
Duke Ellington The Great Paris Concert
1962.
Fausto Romitelli Professor Bad Trip I-III
2000. Took a while for classical music to fully embrace something as seemingly "low-brow" in evocation as this. The implicit statement is that something as meaningless as a bad trip is as complex and worthy of permanence as anything else. Very 2000s-y.
Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia
Franz Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178
1853. Liszt's excess somehow translates to a piano sonata.
Franz Liszt A Faust Symphony
1854. 3 movements which correlate to different characters in Goethe's Faust. Looney Tunes music at its finest.
Glenn Branca Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)
Gris Il Était Une Forêt...
Hans Werner Henze Tristan
Horatiu Radulescu Intimate Rituals
Iannis Xenakis Metastaseis
Imitation Zone Late
Jake Xerxes Fussell Good and Green Again
Jesu Jesu
2004. Where Red House Painters would've wound up if their first two albums' trajectory kept up.
Joan Baez Joan Baez
Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Johann Sebastian Bach The Brandenburg Concertos
1721. Bach's early works have such interesting character. To the point where I would almost recommend this above anything else he's made. Even other early works which I prefer, because of how full and emblematic of the whole period it is.
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
1885. Brahms, Brahms. Someday I will revel in your intra-textual brilliance. As of now, I admire you for the brilliance I feel you admired.
John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 100 in G major,
1794. Like they always say, 100th time's a charm. Military drums amplify this. Forces the composition to leave the comfort zone.
Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Junglinge
1956. All Schoenberg invented was a way of listening to music. THIS was the invention of Serialism as a form of composition.
Kayo Dot Coyote
Lamborghini Crystal 1992 Cool Runnings
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence
Laurie Anderson Big Science
Laurie Anderson United States Live
1983. This album's grandeur promises to be worthy of its title. Will it be an enormous metaphysical interweaving mad dash through a cosmic ball of yarn? 70% yeah
Leos Janacek String Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)
1923. This man made his first string quartet at the same time Beethoven would've been working on
his 9th symphony. This string quartet was so good it made me give his masterpiece a second shot.
Luciano Cilio Dialoghi del presente
Ludwig van Beethoven "Hammerklavier" Piano Sonata No. 29 in B♭ major, Op. 106
1818. You know, I want to review each of these albums, but it's been months since I heard this, and there ARE 32 of these things, so I don't remember exactly what set this one apart. Probably has something to do with it being late Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A♭ major, Op. 110
1822. Ah, the second to last of a >9 set of Beethoven works. perhaps cursed with being good.
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
1826. Beethoven's last quartet. Delightful and without anything to prove.
Ludwig van Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
1803. Triple Concerto has some of the earliest Beethoven magic.
Manuel de Falla Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet,
1926. Harpsichord in the 1920s almost sounds like a gimmick, but de Falla almost creates the musical equivalent to the energy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland simply by invoking this instrument.
Mason Bates Digital Loom
2006. The final work of classical that I listened to in my chronological survey of the genre was basically an EDM album. That's how the story ends.
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major
1903. Shoutout Mark Kozelek for living in this guy's house
Mauricio Kagel Acustica
Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II
Michael Gordon Decasia
2001. Michael Gordon takes off Weather's real-life-parallel gloves and lets his style of spiritual totalist intensity loose into yer branes.
Michael Gordon Weather
1999. Now as we see what Michael Gordon does as he settles into totalism almost like how Part settled into minimalism, the experiment launches off, and still with no reserve, he sees if he's able to out-film film. A storm a-brews and the tension is real.
Mikel Rouse Mikel Rouse Broken Consort - LIVE 1987
Mikis Theodorakis Symphony No. 2
Milton Babbitt Philomel
1964. It was only once I realized how cool this was that I truly appreciated Gesang der Junlinge
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
Osvaldo Golijov Ayre
2004. This work is defined by culture more than art. Ultimately though, its self expression is unmistakable. Whether you care or not, there's no mistaking that this was one of the most impressive things you could do in the 2000s.
Owen Pallett Heartland
Patty Waters Sings
Paul Hindemith Nobilissima Visione
1938
Peter Jefferies Electricity
Peter Maxwell Davies 8 Songs for A Mad King
1969. This is some 80 year old's ITCOTCK.
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 6
2004. The most interesting of the Naxos Quartets. Almost feels like it provides context for the rest in a weird way. Like it has some greater perspective. If not that, it puts Davies as a whole into perspective.
Radioactive Boss Baby RADIOACTIVE BOSS BABY
Richard Strauss Study: Metamorphosen
Richard Strauss Vier letzte Lieder
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
1845. Schumann is good. Are we skeptical of anything in the shadow of Beethoven or something? No,
this is good art. Remember this guy harder.
Rowland S. Howard Teenage Snuff Film
Roy Harper Folkjokeopus
Samuel Barber Piano Concerto, Op. 38
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No.5 in B-♭ major, Op.100
1944
Sergei Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
1939. Maybe the best film soundtrack. Not much competition.
Sofia Gubaidulina 'Introitus': Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orc.
1978. Gubaidulina is so so Russian. It actually hurts me. How can you bear to create this.
Spellling The Turning Wheel
2021. It feels rarer than it should nowadays to find pop music that cares. This is like Titanic Rising if it cared.
Steve Reich Early Works
1965-1972. Special attention be paid to It's Gonna Rain. Special attention not be paid to Clapping Music.
The Birthday Party Live 1981-82
1982. This must've been the era of Nick Cave that the guy from TISM saw when they said they confused him for an exaggerated parody of punk. Sincerity and parody are the same thing, Mr. TISM.
The Holy Modal Rounders Indian War Whoop
The Knife Silent Shout
The Modern Jazz Quartet and Guests Third Stream Music
To Live and Shave in L.A. The Cortège
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants
Van Morrison Common One
Van Morrison What's It Gonna Take?
Vylet Pony Can Opener’s Notebook: Fish Whisperer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626
1792. Nice n lengthy by non-operatic Mozart standards. Also pretty peculiar for the time. If you're looking for spiritual truths in Mozart, they're probably here.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
1788. I see this as Mozart's peak, despite Requiem sharing the score because it's too highly rated for me to give it a 1.5. For me, this is the orchestration that conceptually embodies his art.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
1785. The musical and humanal dynamics of this thing demand a bravo.

1.5 very poor
Actors Artificial Untimeliness & Default Settings
Ada Rook UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU
Akron/Family Akron/Family
2005. Rare to find 2000s folk albums that have a reason to exist. When you find one you better stick to it like glue.
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
2007. I'm illiterate in metal, but this doesn't seem like metal. Which is something I've noticed about a lot of the best metal, so I'll throw in a bet that this has the slightest chance of being the best thing ever made.
Alexander Scriabin Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 43
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 7
Alicia Leonilda Bonnet Opening
1982. They were in America and they were recording and they performed into the recorder and it was LARPing and it was good.
American Music Club Everclear
American Music Club California
1988. Some of the brilliance is actually lost on this one, I feel. Performance-wise you're okay, but there are dimensions in the compositions that were lost between Engine and this one. Perhaps as I grow to appreciate the performances without what I see now as their complement, I'll grow to love this album as well.
American Music Club United Kingdom
1989. Less going on instrumentally, more going on compositio-conceptually. Usually the case with a great band's B-sides
André Hodeir Jazz et Jazz
Andrew Hill Point of Departure
Anthony Jordan Enter the Tunnel, and Soon the Darkness Shall Be N
Arvo Part Te Deum
1985
Arvo Part Cello Concerto, Perpetuum Mobile, Symphonies 1,2,3
1963-1971. Not that these pieces are lacking, but you can definitely feel Part searching for something more definite. Thus, these are some of his most specific creations, less Bach and more hyper-Beethoven. That being said, this compilation is weird. Why these 5? I don't generally rate compilations, I just happened to hear this.
Autechre Quaristice
Bats (US) Blue Cabinet
Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119
Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Sz. 40
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch
Between the Buried and Me Colors
2007. The metal parts are underwhelming, but the rest makes me think it's a great metal album.
Billy Woods Aethiopes
Black Dresses Forget Your Own Face
Black Midi Cavalcade
2021. Any band that does anything new has to want to. I trust black midi, because while this isn't quite Faust, it's equally authentic.
Boom Bip & Doseone Circle
Bug Davies II: The Captain's Home Again
Charlemagne Palestine Strumming Music
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question, for orchestra
1935. Very short piece that cleverly uses dissonance in its intra-musical dialogue.
Charlie Haden Not in Our Name
2005. Carla Bley is a compositional wizard. This is supreme American music.
Cities Aviv MAN PLAYS THE HORN
Clarence Clarity THINK: PEACE
Codeine The White Birch
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive
Dennis Johnson November
1959. 4 hours (5?) of piano notes, quite separated from one another. Almost as though the piece wants you to forget the prior one before you hear the next one. Like each push of a key is a piece of its own, and rather than fitting them together, you're meant to embrace the sound in this John Cage kind of way. This isn't minimalism yet, but it's close.
Dieter Schnebel Yes I Will Yes
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 20
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, op. 70
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 14, Op. 135
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, op. 142
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, op. 144
Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.126
1966. Any trace of Symphony No. 15 in prior Shostakovich immediately boosts it up .5, but I feel like originally it was supposed to be the other way around.
Dogbowl Tit! (An Opera)
Duke Ellington Black Brown And Beige
1943.
Earl Sweatshirt Sick!
Edgard Varese Déserts
1954. I don't like Varese, but even a nincompoop's magnum opus is worthy of acknowledgement.
Einsturzende Neubauten Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Elliott Carter A Symphony of Three Orchestras
1976. One of the few pieces that's this dissonant and still feels cohesive. I listen to this and instead of writing it off as the product of an unknowable thought process, I occasionally understand before I forget.
Elliott Carter Concerto for Orchestra
Esquivel Infinity in Sound
Felix Mendelssohn "Italian" Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B♭ major, D. 485
Franz Schubert Winterreise, D. 911
1827. I still see these types of songs as novel. Rock seems far more real. That being said, Winterreise is enjoyable for more than just novelty-derived delights. Nick Cave still perfected "songs".
Gabor Szabo Dreams
Galaxie 500 Today
Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime
George Russell Jazz in the Space Age
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem
1874. Heavenly for the first bit and then well done for the rest.
Gnaw Their Tongues An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
2007. Fills the room with sound. The very end takes it a step further, by infusing melody, which I commend.
Gospel The Loser
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.7
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Harrison Birtwistle The Triumph of Time
1972. A tone poem that does strange things with time. Every time I say something like that I have to reiterate that it isn't as straightforward as it sounds. It's not the classical equivalent of tick tock by MF DOOM. It's a tragedy starring your obsession with clocks.
Henry Cowell 3 Anti-modernist Songs
1938. Anti-modernism!? What's next? POST-Modernism!?
Henry Purcell Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary
iANO Life Cycles
Jack White Boarding House Reach
2018. The stylistic all-the-wrong-places-ness of this album is what grants it its quality for me. Jack White really did want to make this thing lol.
James Ferraro Last American Hero / Adrenaline's End
James Ferraro iAsia
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Jenny Hval Classic Objects
Johann Sebastian Bach Great Organ Works (Peter Hurford)
1704-1747. The dissonance inherent to the tones of the organ are delightful in the hands of a guy like Bach.
John Tavener The Protecting Veil
1987
Jonathan Harvey Speakings
2003
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D Major
Joseph Haydn Die Schopfung (The Creation)
1795. This piece does have a certain quality that makes it feel like it's bringing about something significant. Especially toward the beginning (probably as it should be).
Joseph Haydn Symphony No.101 in D major
Julian Cope Jehovahkill
Julius Eastman Unjust Malaise
Julius Eastman Femenine
1974. Not the best minimalism, but holy shit is there so much bad stuff.
Junior Boys Last Exit
Juppala Kaapio Sporing Promenade
Kaatayra Inpariquipê
Kae Tempest The Line Is A Curve
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
Laura Nyro Eli and The 13th Confession
1968
Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
1949. Leonard Bernstein never struck me as... as... ummm... anything really. Which is why this thing surprised me.
Leos Janacek Jenůfa
1903. An opera about the little guys. Literature beat us to the punch with this type of thing, but an opera about poor people is kind of an extra level of crazy, seeing as even the word opera has a faint connotation of elitism.
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2021. Throw away your I Trawl The Megahertz vinyl.
Lou Harrison La Koro Sutro
1972
Louis Andriessen De Materie
1988
Louis Andriessen De Tijd
1993. Barely feels like classical. If you told me this was a Spacemen 3 live concert or something I would totally believe you.
Love Da Capo
Luciano Berio Coro
1976
Ludwig van Beethoven Missa solemnis, Op. 123
1823. Late Beethoven large scale masterpiece often overshadowed by the 9th but no less noteworthy in that it's also better than 65% of classical music. The 9th just happens to also be better than 92%.
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 6 in B♭ major, Op. 18, No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No.12 E-flat Major,Op127
1824. Gross Fugue alone is what separates this from the others. Innovation beyond innovation.
Lydia Lunch Smoke in the Shadows
2004. Twin Peaks meets Lisa Germano. And it's weird. I mean you don't really have much of what makes Lisa genius and you don't have much of... well actually, you have a lot of Twin Peaks.
Mark Kozelek All The Best, Isaac Hayes
Material Girl i85mixx21-22
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
2001
Mauricio Kagel Exotica
1972. He could've just left this as a novel set of performance instructions, but instead he made it actually interesting in composition as well. Goofy otherwise.
Max Roach It's Time
Meat Puppets Up On The Sun
Michael Gordon Trance
Michael Tippett A Child of Our Time
Mikel Rouse Recess
2010. Bruce Springsteen impression here. Mikel Rouse at some point stopped the classical approach and let himself shine right alongside his compositions. And he still does better than most of the 2000s' singer/songwriters.
Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel
Munly and The Lupercalians Kinnery of Lupercalia: Undelivered Legion
Nara Leao Nara
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage
Odezenne 1200 mètres en tout
Olivier Messiaen La Transfiguration De Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ
Osvaldo Golijov Oceana
1996. Golijov has very eclectic music here. It's definitely not NOT classical, but... it excites.
Pan Daijing Tissues
park zero Proxy
2022. Closing song makes this good. The rest of it is relatively well-done very gay almost-kind-of-noise.
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 1
2002
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 3
2003
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 7
2005
Portishead Third
2008. Famous for being from 2008, this album is good.
Poul Ruders Violin Concerto No. 2
1996
Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71
1892. Ballet as art. Not just art now, but also nonsense.
Quelle Chris DEATHFAME
Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors
Ravi Shankar Ragas & Talas
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Eine Alpensinfonie
Robert Ashley Wolfman
1964. This is the kind of stuff that would blow an avant-teens mind.
Robert Schumann Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120
Robert Turman Way Down
Roy Harper Sophisticated Beggar
Section 25 Always Now
Sofia Gubaidulina Canticle of the Sun
Solid Space Space Museum
Storm and Stress Under Thunder and Fluorescent Light
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sun Ra The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Taylor Swift Red
Terry Riley Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
1969. A good complement to Rainbow in Curved air. Striking in compositional difference.
The Books The Lemon Of Pink
2003. Apparent in this music is just how well-done its composition is. Plunderphonics was never that interesting to me, but if it were...
The Cure Pornography
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
2013. Some of the political stuff that's going on this album is really interesting, especially in conjunction with, at times, equally interesting music.
The Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free
The Skaters Dark Rye Bread
The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention
The Sound Jeopardy
The The Soul Mining
Them The Angry Young Them
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain
2006. When it comes to poppy 2000s Indie Rock, this is about as much as you can ask for without asking for Illinois.
Volcano The Bear Classic Erasmus Fusion
2006. The Glow Pt. 2 minus the parts that would keep a twitter user from putting it on their topster.
Warren Zevon Excitable Boy
Witold Lutoslawski Symphony No. 3
1983
Witold Lutoslawski Symphony No. 4
1992
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E♭ major, K. 543
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No.22 B-flat major, K.589
Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind

1.0 awful
40 Watt Sun Perfect Light
Alban Berg Violin Concerto
Alexander Scriabin Prometheus: Le Poeme Du Feu, Op. 60
Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No. 4
Alfred Schnittke Concerto Grosso No. 5
Alfred Schnittke Piano Quintet
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 5
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 4
Alfred Schnittke Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
Alfred Schnittke Symphony No. 6
Alice Glass Prey//IV
Alon Mor Lands of Delight
Alphabet Holds Hostage again and so soon
Anais Mitchell Anais Mitchell
Animal Collective Time Skiffs
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major
Arcangelo Corelli 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg 2: Streichquartette I-IV
Art Blakey Moanin'
Asleep Country Helvetic Sylph
Avalina How do I turn the lights off in a dark room?
Battles Mirrored
Beach House Once Twice Melody
Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Sz. 83
Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95
Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67
Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 3 in C sharp major, Sz. 85
Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114
Benjamin Britten Cello Symphony
Bodyguard Silica Gel
Bohuslav Martinu Symphony No. 6
Brii Sem Propósito
Burzum Filosofem
Candy Claws Two Airships / Exploder Falls
Caroline (UK) Caroline
Charalambides Joy Shapes
Charles Ives Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting
Charles Ives A Symphony: New England Holidays
Charles Ives Three Places in New England
Charles Wuorinen Time's Encomium
Charles Wuorinen Percussion Symphony
Charli XCX Crash
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer
Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86
Claude Debussy La mer (The Sea), L. 109
Claude Debussy Nocturnes, L. 91
Claude Debussy Images pour orchestre, L. 122
Claude Debussy Jeux, L. 126
Claude Debussy Le Martyre de saint Sébastien, Fragments symphoniq
Cloakroom Dissolution Wave
CMAT If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session
David Del Tredici Final Alice
David Maslanka Symphony No. 4
David Maslanka Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
Dawnathan my heels will never be soft
deathcrash Return
Deerhunter Microcastle
Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Dizayga .room on fire
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D major, op. 83
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, op. 117
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138
Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 in E♭ major, Op.107
Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op.77
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 in C minor, Op.35
Domenico Scarlatti Essercizi per Gravicembalo K 1- K 30
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A major, K. 322
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A Minor K. 175
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in E Major, K. 380, L. 23
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D Minor, K. 213, L. 108
Domenico Scarlatti K.198 e-minor
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata for keyboard in D minor, K. 1
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A Major K. 208
Edgard Varese Ionisation
Edgard Varese Octandre
Edgard Varese Amériques
Edgard Varese Arcana
Edgard Varese Density 21.5
Edgard Varese Poème électronique
Edgard Varese Intégrales
Edgard Varese Hyperprism
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
Ellen Zwilich Symphony No. 2
Ellen Zwilich Triple Concerto
Eric Dolphy Far Cry
Erik Satie Musique d'ameublement
Ernest Bloch Schelomo
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
Family Music in a Doll's House
Fausto Romitelli La sabbia del tempo
Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Foxtails Fawn
Francis Poulenc Concert champetre, FP 49
Frank Zappa Apostrophe
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in B♭ major, D. 960
Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D.804, Op.29
Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887
Frederic Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op. 66
Fucked Up Year of the Horse
Future I Never Liked You
Gabriel Faure Requiem, Op. 48
George Frideric Handel Water Music
George Rochberg Contra Mortem et Tempus
Ghost (JPN) Hypnotic Underworld
Giuseppe Verdi Otello
Giuseppe Verdi Aida
Goffredo Petrassi Coro di Morti
Good Morning Bedlam Lulu
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor, "Tragic"
Gyorgy Ligeti Requiem
Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia
Henry Cowell String Quartet No. 3
Henry Cowell Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Henry Cowell Ongaku
Henryk Gorecki Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, op. 40
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 1
Hildegard von Bingen O Jerusalem
Iannis Xenakis Orient-Occident
if i promise In The Form Of Light
Infidel?/Castro! Bioentropic Damage Fractal
James Ferraro NYC, HELL 3:00 AM
Jean Barraque Concerto
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 82
Jeff Mills Waveform Transmission Vol.1
Jimmy Giuffre Free Fall
Johann Sebastian Bach 6 Partitas, BWV 825–830
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.2 in C minor, BWV 911
Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.1 in F-sharp minor, BWV 910
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.3 in D major, BWV 912
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.4 in D minor, BWV 913
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.5 in E minor, BWV 914
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No. 6 in G minor, BWV 915
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata No.7 in G major, BWV 916
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.90
Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 34
John Cage Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
John Prine John Prine
John Rutter Requiem
Jonathan Harvey Bhakti
Jonathan Harvey Bird Concerto with Pianosong
Joseph Haydn String Quartets, Op.76
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No.94 in G major,
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 93 in D Major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E♭ major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 99 in E♭ major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 98 in B♭ major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 97 in C major
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D major, "The Miracle"
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 95 in C minor
Josephine Foster Godmother
Josquin Des Prez Missa Malheur me bat
JPEGMAFIA LP!
Kaizo Slumber The Kaizo Manifesto
Kalevi Aho Symphony No. 7
Kalevi Aho Symphony No. 11
Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra
Karlheinz Stockhausen »Gruppen« für 3 Orchester; »Carré« für 4 Orchester
Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum
Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki Polskie Requiem
Lalleshwari Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Last Exit Last Exit
Leos Janacek String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
leroy Dariacore 3... At Least I Think That's What It's C
lobsterfight Sun Soaking
Louis Armstrong Paramount Recordings
Ludwig van Beethoven "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B♭, Op. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor"
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C Minor, Op.37
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Luigi Nono Intolleranza 1960
Luigi Nono Il Canto Sospeso
Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout
Madrugada Chimes at Midnight
Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell
Mew No More Stories
Michael Gordon Timber
Michael Torke Colour Music
Mikel Rouse Music for Minorities
Mitski Laurel Hell
Morton Feldman Violin and String Quartet
Murrumur WEBMAKER
mydreamfever Rough and Beautiful Place
Nara Leao Opiniao de Nara
Nat Adderley Work Song
no29 1221ses
2022. The inclusion of "all improvisation" in the bandcamp description for this album is appreciated, because the average free improvisation outfit would have so much faith in the art itself having the qualities that improvisation implies, that they would just let it go without saying. This, however, feels like a real person who's actually proud of having done something cool. Free improv to hi-five to.
Nujabes Modal Soul
Ode and Elegy Ode and Elegy
Olivier Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
Olivier Messiaen Catalogue d'oiseaux
Orbital Orbital 2
Ornette Coleman Change of the Century
p2p Impossible Burger
Pan Sonic Kesto (234:48:4)
Paul Dolden L'ivresse de la vitesse
Pedro the Lion Havasu
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 2
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 4
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 5
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 8
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 9
Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No. 10
Philip Glass Music in Twelve Parts
Pierre Boulez Répons
Pierre Boulez Le marteau sans maitre
Pierre Boulez Pli selon pli
Pusha T It's Almost Dry
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20
Quannnic Kenopsia
Rachel's Systems/Layers
Ralph Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony [No. 3]
Red Vox Visions
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Don quixote
Richard Strauss Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53
Richard Strauss Tone Poem: Till Eulenspiegel Op.28
Robert Schumann Symphony No.3 in E Major, Op.97
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Roberto Gerhard The Plague
Roxy Radclyffe d
Ryan Adams Cold Roses
Sault (UK) Air
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.5 in G major, Op.55
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
SHXCXCHCXSH Kongestion
Silvana Estrada Marchita
Skanks the Rap Martyr Another Crown Heights Riot
Sofia Gubaidulina Offertorium
Sofia Gubaidulina St. John's Passion
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus
SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems
Spring Heel Jack Amassed
Squid Bright Green Field
Stan Getz Focus
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto
Stars of the Lid Music For Nitrous Oxide
1995. 0.5 later. Somehow you've fused the melancholic complacency of shitty ambient music with the whininess of lo-fi depression punk.
Steve Reich Four Organs/Phase Patterns
Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Steve Reich Drumming
Steve Reich Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices, and Organ
Steve Reich Cave
1993. 0.5 later. Hamfisted overbearing ass music. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine at least has compositional structure. This shit is an endless drone. Minimalism was dead.
Suho Meso Windmill Trail
Suicide Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions
Sylvano Bussotti The Rara Requiem
Tanya Tagaq Tongues
Terry Riley In C
The Body and OAA Enemy of Love
The Books The Way Out
The Drones Here Come the Lies
The Nook Collective The Advent of Nookdom: Rescored and Reborn
The Shin EgAri
The Ventures The Ventures In Space
Thomas Ades Asyla
Toilet Penis Gonna Die
Toru Takemitsu To The Edge of Dream
Trentemoller Memoria
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost
Valyri Sheffner Harris Inth the Wroun G'plac
Van Morrison Blowin' Your Mind
Viper the Rapper One Day You'll See Me Again (1997-2009)
Weiland Vices
Witold Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
Witold Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B♭ Major, K. 595
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Haffner" Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Prague" Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No.20 in D major, K.499
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No.21 in D major, K.575
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No.23 in F major, K.590
Wovenhand Silver Sash
Yeule Glitch Princess
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