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BBC Recording of the Month: “Pittsburgh Electrifies in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth”
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff: Five Pieces is the BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month! “Honeck’s overriding objective has been to revivify a work that in lesser hands can easily lose its freshness and originality. To achieve this, he has followed Tchaikovsky’s carefully delineated performance instructions to the letter, investing every musical phrase with a wealth of insight, detail and colour. From the outset, Honeck’s infinitely…
Tutti! Orchestral Sampler Double-LP Back in Stock!
Back in Stock — TUTTI! Orchestral Sampler Double-LP! TUTTI! is on The Absolute Sound Super Disc List TUTTI! is Italian for “all together now,” as in the sound of a full orchestra playing in perfect ensemble. TUTTI! is also a full-length sampler of RR’s classical orchestral releases —PLUS a special BONUS track available nowhere else in the RR catalog! Artists include Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Jose Serebrier and the…
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff Five Pieces is a New York Times Pick!
The New York Times published “5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now” featuring a selection of the New York Times Classical Critics’ favorite new releases and David Allen has an absolute RAVE review for Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff Five Pieces recording: “make no mistake, it is a masterpiece, a dark psychological thriller that soars and scars and ends up being rather unnerving. Drawing on Tchaikovsky’s sketches…
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff: Five Pieces is a Gramophone Recording of the Month
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff: Five Pieces is a Gramophone Recording of the Month and Editor’s Choice feature! “Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released many discs together on Reference Recordings, including several that have earned recognition as Editor’s Choice: Dvořák, Mahler and ‘Promethean’ Beethoven (as described by Richard Osborne, 12/15) among others.… And now they…
Blues Blast Magazine Announces 2023 Award Nominations
Blues Blast Magazine has announced their 2023 Blues Blast Music Award Nominations and we’re thrilled to share that Reference Recordings artists Doug MacLeod and Jimi Bott have been nominated for multiple awards! Nominations Jimi Bott Doug MacLeod How to Vote Fan voting begins July 1, 2023 and continues until August 18, 2023 at BluesBlastMagazine.com. Voting is free, and and open to anyone. You may only vote one time. If you are not currently a Blues…
José Serebrier Wins ARSC Award
It has been my pleasure and honor to have had a lifelong friendship with Jose Serebrier, one of the world’s greatest conductors. Reference Recordings is very proud to have several albums conducted by Maestro Serebrier on our label. His biography, José Serebrier: Portraits of the Maestro, is a fascinating book, be sure to check it out! I just learned it recently received a 2022 “Certificate of Merit” Award for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music…
Doug MacLeod wins 2023 Blues Music Award!
The Blues Foundation Announced its 44th Annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis on May 11, 2023, and Reference Recordings is thrilled to share that Doug MacLeod was announced as the winner of the 2023 Acoustic Artist Award! Congratulations to Doug MacLeod! Doug MacLeod Recordings on Reference
Gramophone Features the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson’s Recording of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
The May 2023 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a must-see four-page feature on the Grand Teton Music Festival and the orchestra’s recording of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with Garrick Ohlsson and Sir Donald Runnicles. See the piece, titled “Climbing Everest in the Rockies” by Thomas May on Page 23! “To perform all five Beethoven piano concertos as a cycle is to ascend one of the repertoire’s proverbial Everest-like peaks. … a winning combination of factors…
Happy 150th Birthday to Rachmaninoff
Join Reference Recordings in celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birthday (April 1873)! We’re celebrating by recognizing three recordings and offering two of them at 20% off through April 9: Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 Peter Jermihov, Conductor Gloriæ Dei Cantores Richard K. Pugsley, Director Named “The Best Recording” of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 in BBC Music Magazine‘s April 2023 issue, this gorgeous production was recorded, edited and mastered by our own engineering…
Announcing Limited Edition LPs!
Reference Recordings is excited to have come across a limited collection of some of our earliest recordings on LP — including our first-ever recording, created in 1976 before Prof. Keith O. Johnson began working with RR! Explore the recordings below, and make sure to look through the images as each one includes the LP Jacket with information about the backstory of the recordings. We regret we cannot ship to the EU or UK at this time.…
Gramophone Reviews Le Dolce Sirene
The Bach Aria Soloists’ Le Dolce Sirene gets a great review from Laurence Vittes in the March 2023 issue of Gramophone Magazine: “The Kansas City-based Bach Aria Soloists make their recording debut on Reference Recordings with a lovely album of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn, complemented by Cecilia McDowall and concluding with their own improvisation on La folia. Recorded with the label’s trademark sweet and clear perfection, ‘Le dolce sirene’ achieves that audiophile miracle, sounding even…
Audiophile Audition Gives an Ovation to Bach Aria Soloists’ Le Dolce Sirene
Audiophile Audition‘s Fritz Balwit has a wonderful overview and review for the Bach Aria Soloists’ Le Dolce Sirene recording: “The most striking feature of this opening track is the keening sound of the violin paired with a minimal cello basso continuo. This was my first exposure to the exceptional skills of the violinist and director of the ensemble, Elizabeth Suh Lane… substantial works that will appeal to fans of modern vocal recitals. They don’t lack…
Doug MacLeod’s A Soul to Claim is a Downbeat Magazine Album of the Year!
Downbeat Magazine‘s January 2023 issue has a list of their 2022 Albums of the Year, and Doug MacLeod’s A Soul To Claim has made the list! “Doug MacLeod’s A Soul To Claim, like many of his 21 previous albums, makes it clear that he’s an archetype of the top-level blues storyteller: wry, sharp-witted, virile, inclined to poke fun at sentiment.… MacLeod bestows his music with a human intimacy that’s a function of his affable personality…
Doug MacLeod is a 2023 Blues Music Award Nominee!
The Blues Foundation announced its 2023 Blues Music Awards Nominees and Reference Recordings is excited to share that Doug MacLeod has been nominated for his 22nd Blues Music Award with a 2023 nomination for Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year! Doug MacLeod Recordings on Reference