I stumbled upon composer
Kile Smith through Kenneth Woods'
blog, and found out that the label which released Smith's
Vespers, the
Navona Records, had made a series of contemporary classical recordings, and most of them are on Spotify.
Links to the composers featured on this label:
Hans Bakker,
Donald Martino,
Allen Brings,
John Carollo,
Jonathan Sacks,
Lawrence Siegel,
Keith Kramer,
Jason Barabba,
Shawn Crouch,
Stephen Yip,
James Romig,
Tasos Stylianou,
Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy,
Sally Reid,
Marty Regan,
Kile Smith,
Hee Yun Kim. And ensemble
Piffaro.
Here's the Spotify playlist: label:Navona (173 tracks, total time 14 hours) Press Ctrl (CMD on Macs) + G to browse in
album view. Give the Vespers a try, it may reverse your view on contemporary classical music. And if you want to buy records to support this innovative indie classical label, here's a good news: the Navona CDs come with PDF study scores, session photos, and information about composers and performers as bonus enhanced CD content.
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