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Happy Birthday Maestro Honeck!
Reference Recordings would like to wish Maestro Manfred Honeck a Happy 60th birthday today! Friday, September 21, 2018, Maestro Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony will release their eighth recording on our FRESH! From Reference Recordings label, and in honor of his birthday, we’re offering our entire Manfred Honeck catalog of recordings on sale through September 30! So start celebrating, and saving! From The Pittsburgh Symphony Staff and Orchestra: Manfred Honeck on FRESH! From Reference Recordings
New Recordings From The Pittsburgh Symphony and Quartet San Francisco
Announcing TWO September 2018 Releases! Beethoven: Symphony No 3 “Eroica”; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 A QSF Journey Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra chart a new path forward! Reference Recordings proudly presents these two iconic works in definitive interpretations from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. This hybrid SACD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Quartet San Francisco’s eclecticism…
Doug MacLeod to Perform LIVE on WBGO
On the heels of the LP-release of his Blues Music Award-winning album, Break The Chain, Doug MacLeod will be joining New York’s premier Jazz & Blues radio station, WBGO, next week, August 22 at 3pm Eastern for a live performance and interview. The program will be broadcast over the air and online – so make sure to tune in at WBGO.org! Break The Chain In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod…
Doug MacLeod: BREAK THE CHAIN now available on LP!
Doug MacLeod’s Blues Music Award-winning Break The Chain recording is now available as a 45rpm, two-LP set pressed by Quality Record Pressings on 180-gram Vinyl, with half-speed mastering by Paul Stubblebine! In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. Recorded by Reference’s Grammy-winning engineer ‘Prof.’ Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain has twelve new…
John Williams At The Movies is WCRB’s CD of the Week!
WCRB, Classical Radio Boston, names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin recording of John Williams At The Movies their CD of the Week! “Conductor Jerry Junkin is celebrating his 25th season with Dallas Winds, one of America’s most energized and revered ensembles. Add in one of the world’s greatest trumpeters, a superb engineering team, and the goose bumps that come with John Williams’s music, and you’ve got one highly charged new CD – and…
Now Available – John Williams At The Movies
Dallas Winds Jerry Junkin Christopher Martin, Trumpet Music to inspire the world for generations! “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably…
Coming Next Week: John Williams At The Movies
John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding music for films. He has written scores for over 100 films, and his massive list of awards includes 51 Academy Award nominations and…
Doug MacLeod Nominated for 2018 Blues Blast Music Award
Following their recent cover story and interview, Blues Blast Magazine has announced Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for a 2018 Blues Blast Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. This is the second major honor for Break The Chain as it was just recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Blues Blast Magazine Features Doug MacLeod
Blues Blast Magazine‘s May 31 issue features Doug MacLeod on the cover along with an extensive new interview by Don Wilcock! The first time Doug MacLeod performed “Break The Chain,” the title song from his latest album, was in Denmark. “I was doing a festival. I was in this room. There must have been about 300 people there, and they all stand up there in Denmark. And I mentioned the story of “Break The Chain.”…
Available Now – Teach Me Thy Statutes
We are very pleased to present our first release in a new series from the PaTRAM Institute. The music performed on this recording of Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language was written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by many to be the…
Break The Chain Wins Blues Music Award!
Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain recording has won the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year! This makes three years in-a-row that Doug MacLeod has won a Blues Music Award (Acoustic Artist of the Year 2017, 2016). Congratulations to Doug MacLeod, Jesse MacLeod, Jimi Bott, Denny Croy, and Oliver Brown! From Doug MacLeod “I was thrilled to hear the news that Break The Chain won The Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of…
Celebrating Blues and Jazz!
15% off all in-stock titles Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain has won a 2018 Blues Music Award for best Acoustic Album of the Year! Doug MacLeod was also nominated for Best Acoustic Artist, and Break the Chain drummer Jimi Bott earned his 19th nomination! Jazz pianists Mike Garson and Dick Hyman are busy out on the road. Mike is touring with former Bowie bandmates with music of David Bowie while NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman…
Introducing PaTRAM!
Reference Recordings is pleased to announce a new series of recordings from the PaTRAM Institute – beginning with our May 18, 2018 release, Teach Me Thy Statutes, which features Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by…
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