The IAML Playlist 2014

What was your favorite music in 2014? What was popular at your library? What did you rediscover last year? We asked, you answered! Below are your picks for the best music you heard in 2014.

Selections are available on a YouTube playlist:

and a Spotify playlist:

There is more, much more!

From ACIM (IAML France)

• Coups de cœur des discothécaires 2014

From IAML Australia:

• Songs on the shortlist for the 2015 APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Song of the Year

• Triple J's Hottest 100
  YouTube playlist

From the Mediothek Krefeld:

•     "Happy" by  Pharrell Williams

•     "Auf uns" by Andreas Bourani

From the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket:

• Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm : Fyra visor i svensk folkton
  Händel, Georg Friedrich : Alcina
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Cosi fan tutte
  And the most borrowed book is a biography about the Swedish female Composer Alice Tegnér

From Muziekweb:

• Muziekweb's picks for 2014

From the Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf

• Patron favorites:
  Judith Holofernes "Ein leichtes Schwert"
  Ed Sheeran "X"
  Rebekka Bakken "Little drop of poison"
  Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter (Soundtrack)

• Favorites from the music experts:
  Electri_City: elektronische Musik aus Düsseldorf
  MAGIC!: Don't Kill the Magic
  West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein with Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Tilson Thomas
  The Beethoven Journey with Leif Ove Andsnes, 5. Klavierkonzert op. 73 and Chorfantasie op. 80

From the Stadtbücherei Würzburg:

• David Garrett: Encore
  Pavarotti forever
  Suzanne Vega, Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
  ACDC: Back in Black
  Norma Winstone, Dance Without Answer

From the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin:

• Luther's wedding day (Capella de la Torre)
  Mozart Clarinet quintet in A major, K 581 (Arcanto Quartett, Jörg Widmann)
  Schubert: Nachtviolen (Gerhaher)
  Eventide (Voces8)
  Weltentraum (Michael Wollny Trio)
  Guardians of the Galaxy (Soundtrack)
  Element of Crime: Lieblingsfarben und Tiere
  Kasabian: 48:13
  Miss Platnum: Glück und Benzin
  Amparo Sanchez: Espiritu del sol
  Zaz: Paris

Individual nominations (in no particular order):

• Fraktus: Freunde sind Friends

• Udo Jürgens: Mein Ziel from last album, Mitten im Leben

• Erlend Øye - Legao

• Broken Bells - After the Disco

• Todd Terje - It's Album Time

• Metronomy - Love letters

• Karmin - Pulses

• Darren Korb - Transistor Original Soundtrack

• Clean Bandit - New Eyes

• Klangkarusell - Netzwerk

• Alle Farben - Synesthesia

• Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

• "Do you want to build a snowman?" and "Let it go" from Frozen

• Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances

• Håkan Hellström: Håkan Boma Ye!
  Kamikaze - KDCD125
  Livebox (3 CD) from a concert 2014 in Ullevi, Gothenburg with close to 70 000 people in the audience - more than any other concert ever in Sweden.
  Håkan Hellström is from Gothenburg - the site of the IAML Conference 2006