Amanda Palmer's playlist – Michael Nyman, Beck, Górecki and more

To mark the release of her EP of Bowie covers featuring a string quartet, the musician picks five of her favourite classical-leaning tracksIn the thick of making the minimal-leaning, string quartet David Bowie tribute that I just put out with Jherek Bischoff, I began thinking about strings and my more classical-leaning influences and about how strings can translate melody and music. When I first found Michael Nyman as a teenager, I made it the soundtrack to my life, and it was one of those beaut