aworks ordered list :: wizards & wildmusic

Alvin Lucier (via last.fm)

Exporting my MP3 track data from most of the decade, I come up with the following top albums based on average rated track:

1. String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 and 6. Gloria Coates. Kreutzer Quartet.
2. Philip Glass - The String Quartets. The Smith Quartet.
3. Four Pieces. Carl Stone.
4. White Man Sleeps. Kevin Volans.
5. [Purgatorio] Popopera. Michael Gordon.
6. Ornette On Tenor. Ornette Coleman.
7. Lou Harrison-Serenado. David Tanenbaum.
8. The Screens. Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso.
9. Alvin Lucier. Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis.
10. Volume 1. Wooden Shjips.

And by most tracks played:

1. Wizards & Wildmen - Piano Music by Ives, Cowell, Harrison. Anthony De Mare.
2. Geogaddi. Boards of Canada.
3. Hail To The Thief. Radiohead.
4. A Portrait of Charles Ives. Ensemble Modern, Metzmacher, Ingo
5. Songs Of Charles Ives & Ernst Bacon. Helen Boatwright.
6. Amnesiac. Radiohead.
7. Alan Hovhaness - Zhou Long - String Quartets. The Shanghai Quartet.
8. Music Has The Right To Children. Boards of Canada.
9. Twoism. Boards of Canada.
10. Virgil Thomson / Tede, Frohnmayer,Skelton, et al.

I may like contemporary string quartets more than I realized, there's less jazz than expected, and I'm rather tired of Boards of Canada. Not wild enough, I suppose...

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