Amazon's new MP3 store is up and I am pleasantly surprised with some of the composers on their featured classical composers list:
| 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 2. Johann Sebastian Bach |
| 3. Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 4. Franz Liszt |
| 5. John Cage |
| 6. Fryderyk Chopin |
| 7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| 8. Claude Debussy |
| 9. Sergei Rachmaninov |
| 10. Erik Satie |
| 11. Charles Ives |
| 12. George Frideric Handel |
| 13. Vivaldi, Antonio |
| 14. Johannes Brahms |
| 15. Leonard Bernstein |
I'd recommend Margaret Leng Tan's Daughters of the Lonesome Isle for $8.99 with no Digital Restrictions Management. The Arditti Quartet playing music of California composers is only $3.96.
There are a few oddities on the website e.g. the historical periods classical list ends at 1910. I can think of several people who wouldn't see this as an error.
By the way, if you go to a composer's page, click on the preview all button to continuously hear all the music, albeit as 30 second clips. Here's the Philip Glass page. I also used this to preview Lisa Bielawa's album.
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