Archive for Review – Page 19
Michael Cookson Reviews Utah Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 8
Critic Michael Cookson offers MusicWeb International‘s second review for Thierry Fischer, the Utah Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s recording of Mahler: Symphony No. 8. “Any performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ is an event, owing to the large orchestral and choral forces plus vocal soloists required to present the work. … The Eighth Symphony is Mahler’s pantheistic vision of life and the universe with which Thierry Fischer here conducts his vast…
Nadia Shpachenko On KING FM’s Second Inversion
Nadia Shpachenko joins Classical KING FM’s Dacia Clay on “Second Inversion” to talk about her new Quotations and Homages recording: Shpachenko’s love of playing—both with toys and on her piano, and sometimes, with her toy piano—is part of what makes her new album, “Quotations and Homages,” so much fun to listen to. She’s got this wide-open sense of adventure that comes across not only in her playing, but in the pieces she commissions and the…
Textura Reviews Teach Me Thy Statutes
Canada’s Textura magazine has a new review for PaTRAM’s Teach Me Thy Statutes recording: “The rich sonorities generated by the male voices makes for a stirring and oft-haunting result, and even a listener coming to the Russian monastic style of singing for the first time will in all likelihood be captivated by this collection of Orthodox sacred music. … Though the singers assembled for the recording came from three ensembles, a marked unity of purpose…
MusicWeb International Reviews the Utah Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 8
John Quinn offers the second MusicWeb International review of Thierry Fischer, the Utah Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s recording of Mahler: Symphony No. 8. “I think it’s appropriate to start this this review by shining the spotlight on someone from the “back room” team. Step forward Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The choral contribution to this performance is as fine as any that I can recall hearing. At a guess…
John Williams At The Movies Gets Five Stars from HRAudio
Graham Williams and HRAudio.net give John Williams At The Movies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for performance and multi-channel sonics in a new review: “Each new release from the Reference Recordings label is anticipated with a tingle of excitement, promising not just an aural treat for audiophiles but also high musical values, and this latest sonic spectacular featuring the film music of John Williams is no exception. For decades Keith O Johnson, the doyen of recording engineers, and his…
InfoDad Reviews John Williams At The Movies
A new review from Transcentury Communications’s family-focused review site, “InfoDad” for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording: “[John] Williams…is for his film pieces that he is best known – those, plus some of his TV work, such as the Olympic Fanfare and Theme that he wrote for the 1984 Summer Olympics and that opens a very fine, very upbeat new Reference Recordings SACD featuring the Dallas Winds under Jerry Junkin.…
John Williams At The Movies WRTI’s Album of the Week
WRTI Radio in Philadelphia names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin John Williams At The Movies recording their Album of the Week! “This latest album is a special collection: the performing ensemble is a virtuoso wind band that plays as though the music was written for them.… Its recordings on the Audiophile Reference Recordings label are stunning. Every nuance of the Dallas Winds’ playing can be heard with crystal clarity. … Beginning with his…
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…
Stereophile Highlights PaTRAM’s Teach Me Thy Statutes Recording
The August 2018 print edition of Stereophile Magazine features “Outstanding Choral Recordings” in Jason Victor Serinus’ “My Backpages” column and includes the new PaTRAM Institute release, Teach Me Thy Statutes: “In Teach Me Thy Statutes, 15 compositions by the prolific Chesnokov receive devout performances by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir… Recorded in hi-rez DSD by John Newton and mixed and mastered by Mark Donahue of SoundMirror… Although the choir’s 42 voices include five basso profundos,…
Classical Music Sentinel Review for John Williams At The Movies
Jean-Yves Duperron of Classical Music Sentinel reviews the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams At The Movies recording: “Regardless of who you are, your age, where you live or what you do, at some point in your life you’ve had a close encounter (pun intended) with the music of John Williams. …it may not be “classical”, “symphonic” or “art” music, but rather written for “commercial” purposes as pointed out in the liner notes,…
Stereophile Reviews John Williams At The Movies
Stereophile Magazine’s Jason Victor Serinus reviewed the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams at the Movies recording for a 4th of July feature: “For a major, decidedly American change of pace from our usual fare of Prokofiev, Debussy, Xenakis, Berg, and Beethoven (for starters), let’s lighten up with Reference Recordings’ latest hybrid SACD, John Williams at the Movies? Also available as a 176.4/24 download—the format in which it was recorded and which I…
Teach Me Thy Statutes is a Recording of the Month – Again!
A second MusicWeb International critic has named PaTRAM Institute’s Teach Me Thy Statutes release their “Recording of the Month”! “It’s a very common tactic when writing a review so to structure the argument that a verdict on the disc emerges quite naturally – or such is the hope! – in the closing paragraphs. No need for such a device here: this disc is, quite simply a stunner! In making that statement I’m thinking equally of…
Teach Me Thy Statutes is a Kansas City Star Top Summer Pick
The Kansas City Star has released a list of top recordings for the summer, saying and selects our new PaTRAM Institute Teach Me Thy Statutes recording! “The PATRAM Institute Male Choir conducted by Vladimir Gorbik has just released a recording of Chesnokov’s music, and it’s breathtaking. … Many thanks to Reference Recordings (the Kansas City Symphony’s record label) for bringing this unearthly beautiful music out of obscurity for the world to enjoy. It’s a Super…
John Williams At The Movies is “Sensational”
MusicWeb International critic Dan Morgan reviews the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s July 6 release, John Williams At The Movies! “Scrolling through John Williams’s extensive worklist triggers an avalanche of movie memories… What better way to get start than with the fanfare and theme Williams wrote for the opening ceremony at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. There’s a broad, arresting sense of spectacle, so familiar from his epic movie scores, plus a dash of…
Quotations and Homages is a Clear Winner
I Care If You Listen critic Don Clark is more than convinced by Nadia Shpachenko’s new Quotations and Homages recording: “Nadia Shpachenko‘s new Reference Recordings album Quotations and Homages is a clear winner… Coming on the wings of her Grammy-nominated album Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013, also on Reference Recordings, Quotations and Homages showcases Shpachenko’s prodigious pianism and her ability to conceive and execute innovative and accessible programs. As the title…