Best modern classical artists of the 2010s
Streaming rewrote every incentive underneath a record: its length, its release date, whether it needed a single at all. Trap production became pop's default rhythm, and a lot of the decade's best artists arrived through a laptop rather than a label.
Everyone who released a modern classical album in the 2010s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.
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Sigur Rós1 album here4.24.4 avg · 12 ratings
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Max Richter3 albums here4.24.3 avg · 6 ratings
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Paul McCartney1 album here3.93.9 avg · 18 ratings
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The Caretaker1 album here3.93.9 avg · 4 ratings
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Nils Frahm3 albums here3.93.8 avg · 3 ratings
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Ólafur Arnalds4 albums here3.83.7 avg · 9 ratings
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deadmau51 album here3.73.6 avg · 6 ratings
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Ulver1 album here3.73.6 avg · 6 ratings
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Bear McCreary1 album here3.73.5 avg · 4 ratings
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These New Puritans1 album here3.73.3 avg · 3 ratings
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William Basinski2 albums here3.73.3 avg · 3 ratings
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Dead Can Dance1 album here3.63.2 avg · 3 ratings
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Craig Armstrong2 albums here3.63.4 avg · 8 ratings
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Nick Cave1 album here3.63.3 avg · 7 ratings
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Serj Tankian1 album here2 ratings
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Joep Beving3 albums here2 ratings
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Goldmund1 album here2 ratings
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Peter Broderick6 albums here2 ratings
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Hans Zimmer2 albums here1 rating
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John Williams1 album here1 rating
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Yann Tiersen1 album here1 rating
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Poppy Ackroyd2 albums here1 rating
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Dustin O’Halloran23 albums here
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Federico Albanese4 albums here
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Jim Copperthwaite1 album here
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