Author Archive for Reference Recordings – Page 5
Watch Nadia Shpachenko Live at the LACMA
Sunday, April 29, at 6pm Pacific, Nadia Shpachenko will be performing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of the “Sundays Live” series which is broadcast in a live stream on the LACMA website! The concert will feature a performance of Tom Flaherty’s Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics, which was on her debut album, Woman at the New Piano. More Information Quotations and Homages Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release…
Manfred Honeck Returns To New York
May 3-8, 2018, Manfred Honeck will lead the New York Philharmonic in four performances featuring selections from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, and his arrangement of Dvořák’s Rusalka Fantasy! For more information, see the official press release on Broadway World, and for tickets, visit nyphil.org. Hear Manfred Honeck’s recording of the Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy on his Tchaikovsky/Dvořák recording with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Manfred Honeck Recordings on FRESH! From Reference Recordings
New Classic LA is Convinced by Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages Recording
New Classic LA critic Steven Niles reviews Nadia Shpachenko’s new Quotations and Homages recording: “In an era marked by emphasis on thematic programming, sometimes it seems the theme counts more than the music, or that the music serves the theme. When all goes well, however, a theme can lend insight and bring pieces together synergistically, where they are better together than apart. The latter is what happens on Nadia Shpachenko‘s new CD, Quotations and Homages.…
Celebrating Jerry Junkin
Reference Recordings congratulates Jerry Junkin on 25 years as the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Dallas Winds! Since 1990, Reference Recordings has partnered with The Dallas Winds (Dallas Wind Symphony) on 17 audiophile recordings (including 3 GRAMMY® nominees). On top of Jerry Junkin’s Dallas Winds recordings with Reference Recordings, he has also released two recordings conducting the University of Texas Wind Ensemble on RR. We are marking this exciting anniversary by offering all of…
Quotations & Homages Now Available
Nadia Shpachenko World Premieres Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6 pianists (performed with Ray-Kallay Duo, HOCKET and Genevieve Feiwen Lee) inspired by a variety of earlier composers and works. These fascinating new pieces come from eight notable modern composers: Tom Flaherty, Missy Mazzoli, Vera Ivanova, James…
Fanfare Says Don’t Miss Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages
Fanfare Magazine has a new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording in their “Not To Be Missed” section: “…a superb and superbly recorded program of pieces as fresh as they are ready to pay respect to the traditions that led to their creation. …framing this set of relative miniatures with the works of Tom Flaherty was a stroke of genius. His integration of electronic and acoustic elements speaks to a long-fostered commitment to…
Nadia Shpachenko Quotations and Homage Release Concert April 4
April 4th at Cal Poly Pomona, Nadia Shpachenko performs a solo recital to officially release her new recording, Quotations & Homages! Concert Details on NadiaShpachenko.com Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6 pianists (performed with RayKallay Duo, HOCKET and Genevieve Feiwen Lee) inspired by a variety of earlier composers and works. These fascinating…
Five Stars All Around for Arnold Overtures LP
The Audio Beat‘s Mark Blackmore reviews our LP re-issue of Arnold Overtures! “Twenty-five years after releasing the Grammy-nominated Arnold Overtures, Reference Recordings has reissued it as a 180-gram, half-speed-mastered LP, and what an LP it is. Paul Stubblebine, who mastered the original CD, returns to do the remastering for this fine reissue pressed at Quality Record Pressings. … Film buffs know Arnold’s music from his award-winning score for The Bridge on the River Kwai. Audiophiles…
Spotlight on Nadia Shpachenko
Nadia Shpachenko was recently presented with the Provost Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative activities by her university, Cal Poly Pomona, which also produced this wonderful new interview video with her about her recording projects: Nadia Shpachenko World Premieres Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6…
Fanfare Magazine Raves About Utah Symphony’s Mahler Eight
“Well, here is the symphony no one could capture—captured at last? I think so! Every music lover grayer than a few decades will recall how pervasive once was the notion of an “unrecordable piece,” a work destined to mock the best efforts of microphones and loudspeakers of the day. … The Mahler Symphony of a Thousand was a holy grail of sorts, attempted from time to time, but essentially out of reach. … I thought…
Vera Ivanova: 6 Fugitive Memories
Composer Vera Ivanova introduces her work, 6 Fugitive Memories, written for Nadia Shpachenko, and recorded on the new Quotations and Homages album: “6 Fugitive Memories” were commissioned by and dedicated to the pianist Nadia Shpachenko. These short miniatures represent six dedications to composers who have anniversaries in 2016, the year when Nadia premiered this work. I decided to remove my compositional style and instead recall through quotations and allusions the pieces of composers to whom…
Catching up with Nadia Shpachenko
Nadia Shpachenko will follow up her GRAMMY®-nominated Woman at the New Piano with a new release next month, and in the meantime, she is turning heads as part of the “People Inside Electronics” (PIE) series. Listen to her interview on KPFK (starts around the 59′ mark on the Thursday, March 8 Global Village program) See her interview about the PIE series and her upcoming release on NewClassic.LA See her perform a PIE preview at ArtNight…
The Pittsburgh Symphony has entered a “golden era”
Audiophile Voice magazine reviews Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony‘s GRAMMY®-winning Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio for Strings recording in their latest issue: “The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra appears to have entered another golden era under the leadership of Manfred Honeck and its association with Reference Recordings. … The sound is open and expansive with a realistic sense of place and space. You can hear details that might easily be submerged for concerts goers but…
Mike Garson Keeps the Bowie Celebrations Alive
L.A. Weekly interviewed pianist Mike Garson about his current “Celebrating Bowie” tour and his future plans to pay homage to the music of David Bowie: “Basically I just made this commitment to myself that 50 percent of my musical output moving forward would be his music,” Garson tells me by phone. He’s currently traveling with Celebrating Bowie, the 27-city tour with the departed icon’s former bandmates playing his works (at the Wiltern on Feb. 28).…
Copper Magazine Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony’s Shostakovich/Barber
Critic Lawrence Schenbeck offers his top 2017 releases in PSAudio’s Copper Magazine and features Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s new Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio for strings recording: “I’ve grievously neglected the fine work done by Honeck in Pittsburgh, a neglect made more shameful because of Soundmirror’s crucial contribution. Whenever I sit down to hear one of these albums, I am drawn closer to the immediacy of live performance than with any other…