The DeuxDuel Minimalism & Contemporary lineup

18 songs · 18 artists · 1993–2025 · listed A–Z, not ranked

What this list is

DeuxDuel draws from 18 songs when it builds a Minimalism & Contemporary matchup. Two of them appear side by side, you play a 30-second preview of each, and you pick the one you would rather hear. Every track here is a real Apple Music catalogue song, hand-picked for this category — not pulled from a streaming chart — and voting needs no music subscription.

The order below is alphabetical by artist. It is not a ranking and does not imply one.

No ranking is published for Minimalism & Contemporary yet. DeuxDuel only publishes a chart once a category has real head-to-head evidence behind it, so this page shows the lineup and nothing more. How the ranking works.

Every song in Minimalism & Contemporary

  1. Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast
    Alvaro Herrán & Steve Reich · 2022
  2. Symphony No. 3: I. Lento—Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
    Beth Gibbons, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Krzysztof Penderecki · 2019
  3. Metamorphosis One
    Floraleda Sacchi & Philip Glass · 2012
  4. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
    Gavin Bryars · 1993
  5. Nuvole Bianche
    Ludovico Einaudi · 2004
  6. Experience
    Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope & I Virtuosi Italiani · 2013
  7. Written on the Sky
    Max Richter · 2013
  8. On the Nature of Daylight
    Max Richter Orchestra & Lorenz Dangel · 2025
  9. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
    Michael Nyman · 2005
  10. Fratres
    Morphing Chamber Orchestra · 2022
  11. Says
    Nils Frahm · 2013
  12. Near Light
    Ólafur Arnalds · 2011
  13. Glassworks (Arr. for Organ by Philip Hoch): I. Opening
    Philip Hoch · 2025
  14. Short Ride in a Fast Machine
    Stephen Mosko, Netherlands Wind Ensemble & John Adams · 1995
  15. Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
    Steve Reich and Musicians · 1998
  16. In C
    Terry Riley & Members of the Creative & Performing Arts at SUNY-Buffalo · 1999
  17. Spiegel im Spiegel
    Tomasz Wabnic & Marek Ruszczynski · 2022
  18. Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi
    Yann Tiersen · 2001
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