Author Archive for Reference Recordings – Page 15
Aloÿs Fornerod: Prélude
Pre-Order Among the countries where Segovia played most often after his triumphant Paris debut is Switzerland. Since the best place to meet up with compsoers is after recitals, it is in this context that he met the Swiss composer, teacher and critic Aloÿs Fornerod (1890-1965). Coming from a French-speaking heritage, he studied in Lausanne and then in Paris with Vincent d’Indy. On returning to his country, he taught in Lausanne and Fribourg. His only guitar…
Amazon Listeners Rate Kansas City Symphony’s Adam Schoenberg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now Across-the-board ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews for the Kansas City Symphony’s recording of Adam Schoenberg orchestral music! “I took a chance on this disc of new music from Adam Schoenberg (no relation that I can find to the more famous Arnold) for the simple reason I have admired previous recordings from Michael Stern and his excellent Kansas City Symphony.… The first two works presented here, Finding Rothko and American Symphony, are student works, dating from when…
Now Playing on Spotify – The Andrés Segovia Archive
Pre-Order The genesis for guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Andrés Segovia Archive was a collection of pieces recovered in May 2001 at Segovia’s home in Spain. These pieces were dedicated to Segovia or commissioned by him, involving composers from eight countries. They were subsequently published as “The Segovia Archive Series” by Edizione Musicale Bèrben. Pérez researched these newly recovered works and found some pieces that had never been recorded, and those that had were handicapped by…
HRAudio Gives Kansas City’s Adam Schoenberg Recording ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now “This thoroughly enjoyable new release from the audiophile Reference Recordings label features three orchestral works by the young Los Angeles based composer Adam Schoenberg (born 1980). Together they chart a period of his compositional development from the first piece entitled ‘Finding Rothko’ (2006), written while he was still a student studying with John Corigliano, to his ‘American Symphony’ of (2011) and finally his latest orchestral work ‘Picture Studies’ (2012).… Schoenberg’s music is tonal,…
Adam Schoenberg Selected As The Q2 Music Album of the Week
Order Now “[Adam] Schoenberg possesses a directly approachable compositional idiom, marked by a sweet-toothed tonal language, widely spaced chords and generous orchestral textures.… [Finding Rothko]’s four movements – ‘Orange,’ ‘Yellow,’ ‘Red,’ and ‘Wine’ – trace a cinematic sweep, peaking with the fusillade of percussion and brass and the nervous swirl of high winds and strings in ‘Red.’… [With American Symphony], Schoenberg has produced an expertly crafted paean to American-ness. Its most stirring moments come in…
Stereophile Magazine Reviews Adam Schoenberg
Order Now “The three works on the new, vividly recorded Adam Schoenberg hybrid SACD from Reference Recordings, recorded in 24/176.4 surround and played by the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern, are deliciously tonal, filled with color and energy, and irrepressibly optimistic. …Schoenberg simply dazzles and delights. Plus, anyone who writes a modern-day Pictures at an Exhibition is someone every music-loving audiophile will want to check out. …the [American Symphony] is variously colorful, exciting, unabashedly…
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
We were saddened to hear the news on Tuesday that conductor and composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski had passed away. He was a great conductor, composer, and an amazing man and he will be missed. It was a great pleasure to have released two recordings featuring him as both a composer and conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra. The Minnesota Orchestra will hold a celebration of his life on March 28th at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From…
O’s Place Gives Fiona Boyes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now “[Fiona Boyes has] got a meaty voice and a lot of good stories to tell backed by a honky tonk, blues groove. We enjoyed “Old and Stiff”, the swinging “Love Me All The Way” and “Love Changing Blues”. This is a solid, well-recorded (as always with Reference), and entertaining session as Fiona is truly Professin’ The Blues.” —Oscar Groomes, O’s Place Jazz Newsletter See the full review on OsPlaceJazz.com
¡Viva Segovia! Now Available for Pre-Order
Pre-Order ¡Viva Segovia! Now Available for Pre-Order: HDCD 44.1/16bit Downloads 96/24bit Downloads Classical Guitar Works from the Andrés Segovia Archive Following two successful albums featuring Spanish and French composers, Roberto Moronn Pérez performs selected works from the “Andrés Segovia Archive”, this time showcasing the best compositions in the Archive from multiple countries. The genesis for this unique project is a collection of pieces recovered in May 2001 at Segovia’s home in Spain. These pieces were…
Professin’ The Blues is “One Killer Album”
Order Now Big City Blues Magazine has a new review for Fiona Boyes’ Professin’ The Blues recording in their February/March 2017 issue: “Since leaving a band format and striking out as a solo artist almost two decades ago, Australian blueswoman Fiona Boyes has blazed a coruscating trail through the blues world.… On this outing she has chosen to present her acoustic skills, abetted on a number of tunes by ace accompanists Jimi Bott on drums…
Superb review for Adam Schoenberg and the Kansas City Symphony
Order Now North Texas arts magazine TheaterJones launches a new recording column with a review of The Kansas City Symphony’s recording of music by Adam Schoenberg. Adam Schoenberg will be appearing in North Texas with in April for a performance of his work La Luna Azul with the Fort Worth Symphony. “The music turns out to be charming and agreeable, but self-confident enough not to beg us to like it. The first work on the…
Manfred Honeck Leads the New York Philharmonic This Week
Conductor Manfred Honeck leads the New York Philharmonic in a program of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto and Mahler’s First Symphony February 15-18, 2017. Before his performances, he spoke with Michael Miller of New York Arts about his approach to conducting for both his recordings and performances as well as great insight into his rehearsal process. Listen to the interview via New York Arts Manfred Honeck Recordings
The Absolute Sound Reviews Nojima Plays Liszt Mastercuts LP
Order Now Wayne Garcia has a new review for our Nojima Plays Liszt recording in the latest issue of The Absolute Sound: “One of Reference Recordings’ most beloved LPs, Nojima Plays Liszt was recorded in December, 1986. It’s been a perennial of this magazine’s Super LP List, and now RR has reissued the title as a half-speed mastered 45rpm two-LP set with original liner notes by TAS Senior Writer Robert E. Greene. … Minoru Nojima…
The Listeners’ Club Hears Radiohead & Copland in Adam Schoenberg’s Music
Adam Schoenberg Recordings The Listeners’ Club has a new review of our first release featuring the music of Adam Schoenberg, Woman At The New Piano by Nadia Shpachenko: “This has to be some of the most playfully exuberant and joyful music ever written. American composer Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) wrote Bounce in 2013, after learning that he was about to become a father. The piece, which has been described as “Radiohead meets Aaron Copland,” was…
Another Adam Schoenberg World Premiere!
Reference Recordings’ relationship with composer Adam Schoenberg continues next month with another world premiere! Sunday March 5, 2017, The University of Texas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jerry Junkin, performs the world premiere of renowned composer Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2 at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. The week following the performance, the wind ensemble will be recording the work for a new Reference Recordings release! Concert Tickets & Information Adam Schoenberg has quickly become…