by Kile Smith | Sep 7, 2019 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music
Laurence Vittes praises The Arc in the Sky, the CD The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, released this summer on Navona, in a thoughtful October 2019 Gramophone magazine review. My description of the work as a “65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied...
by Kile Smith | May 22, 2014 | American music, CD Reviews, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
[CD review for WRTI; published 22 May 2014 and used here by permission.] Saxophonist and Prism Quartet founder Matthew Levy has spent his career getting other composers played; now the spotlight’s on him in a new CD, and what a brilliance it reveals. Call...
by Kile Smith | Sep 29, 2013 | CD Reviews, My CD Reviews, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD review for WRTI; you can hear the podcast with musical examples below. All my CD reviews are here. https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/201309thrumcd.mp3 Minneapolis Guitar Quartet: Thrum (Innova 858) Daniel Bernard Roumain: Ghetto Strings...
by Kile Smith | Jun 8, 2013 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
The last of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl. Randall Thompson: Alleluia....
by Kile Smith | Jun 7, 2013 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
The fifth of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl. Stanley Myers: Cavatina....
by Kile Smith | Jun 6, 2013 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
The fourth of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl. Wolfgang Amadeus...
