I’ve honestly never cared much for the Grammys but this year I thought it would be fun to listen to some of the nominees and make a playlist out of this year’s selected works and albums. For this playlist I looked at Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Classical Compendium, and Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album. The lists honestly aren’t as long as I assumed, so I’ve selected other works by the composers on these lists. I found the easiest way to clearly see the nominations was on Wikipedia, not the Grammy website. Happy listening!
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I give this playlist a Difficult Listening Hour rating of 3/10.
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Work: Don’t Look Down
Composer/Performer: Christopher Cerrone, Sandbox Percussion
Album: Cerrone: Don’t Look Down
Work: Land of Winter
Composer/Performer: Donnacha Dennehy, Alarm Will Sound
Album: Dennehy: Land Of Winter
Work: Raíces
Composer/Performer: Tania León, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Album: León: Raíces — Origins
Work: Songs in Flight
Composer/Performer: Shawn E. Okpebholo, Will Liverman, Paul Sánchez+
Album: Okpebholo: Songs In Flight
Work: Dzonot
Composer/Performer: Gabriela Ortiz, LA Philharmonic
Album: Ortiz: Yanga
Best Classical Compendium
Album: Cerrone: Don’t Look Down
Sandbox Percussion; Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Christopher Cerrone, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney & Mike Tierney, producers
Album: The Dunbar/Moore Sessions, Vol. II
Will Liverman; Jonathan Estabrooks, producer
Album: Ortiz: Yanga
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer
Album: Seven Seasons
Janai Brugger, Isolde Fair, MB Gordy & Starr Parodi; Nicholas Dodd, conductor; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley, producers
Album: Tombeaux
Christina Sandsengen; Shaun Drew & Christina Sandsengen, producers
Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
Album: Kuruvinda
Kirsten Agresta-Copely
Album: According to the Moon
Cheryl B. Engelhardt, GEM, Dallas String Quartet
Album: Into the Forest
Jahnavi Harrison
Album: Nomadica
Carla Patullo featuring The Scorchio Quartet & Tonality
Album: The Colors in My Mind
Chris Redding