Archive for Review – Page 24
Adam Schoenberg is a Rising Star
Order Now “Currently teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles, [Adam Schoenberg]’s a rising star, his tonal, tuneful, colourfully scored music performed by orchestras across the US. … [Finding Rothko] successfully mirrors Rothko’s art — atmospheric, meditative and imposing, with shimmering colours that effectively play against each other in unexpected ways.… Schoenberg’s five-movement American Symphony (2011) begins and ends with buoyant optimism, powered by quasi- minimalist ostinatos. Two solemn, slow movements, built on sustained Coplandesque…
ClassicalEar on Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music: Superb
Order Now “Schoenberg’s painterly soundscapes fall very easily on the ear… Best in my view are the Picture Studies, especially the Stravinskyan ferocity of ‘Kandinsky’ and ‘Miró’, which is bouncy and percussive, with telling use of an E-flat clarinet. The closing piece, ‘Pigeons in Flight’ after a photograph by Francis Blake recalls, like certain other works on the disc, the gently pulsing, harmonically pleasing delirium of Reich, though Schoenberg’s style more approximates the composing manners…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Across The Board for Saint-Saëns LP!
Order Now The Audio Beat critic, Tim Aucermann, gives our Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Reference Mastercuts LP a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating in Music and Sound: “Reference Recordings (RR) has catered to vinyl-playing audiophiles since the mid-1970s, and label CEO Tam Henderson has a solid grasp of what his finicky audience wants: recordings of acoustic music performed in actual concert spaces captured in holographic sound with a genuine sense of presence. And realistic…
BBC Magazine Features José Serebrier’s Janáček!
Order Now BBC Magazine and BBC Radio 3’s “Building A Library” series features Leoš Janáček’s Taras Bulba and lists our recording with the Czech State Philharmonic, Brno and José Serebrier as a Top Four recording! “José Serebrier’s Taras Bulba on a two-disc collection of Janáček’s orchestral music for the audiophile Reference Recordings label is by a clear distance the finest-sounding available, stunning in the breadth and depth of its spatial perspectives. … Serebrier’s is a…
Adam Schoenberg Gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Audiophile Audition
Order Now Audiophile Audition gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for “American music by [Adam] Schoenberg wonderfully recorded and performed” by the Kansas City Symphony! “[Adam] Schoenberg has had a productive relationship with the Kansas City Symphony and conductor Michael Stern, so the disc contains some early works by Schoenberg and a work commissioned by the KCS. Schoenberg’s works are increasingly being played by American Symphony Orchestras. He has a unique voice, and audiences seem to be connecting to…
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…
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,…
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…
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
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…
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…
Professin’ The Blues Around The World
Order Now Spanish blues radio program, La Hora Blues, praises Fiona Boyes and her new Professin’ The Blues recording in their Quarterly CD Review roundup, and they will be featuring the recording on their Friday, February 17th broadcast! “Fiona Boyes has gathered fourteen original blues and two covers “Baby Please Don’t Go” coming from Big Joe Williams and another song entitled “Face In The Mirror”. Fiona has recorded all songs in format of solo, duo…
Hi-Fi News Reviews Fiona Boyes
Order Now “Rural blues has always been a genre favoured by the audiophilie labels because a voice, a guitar and some foot stomping can prove incredibly visceral… Boyes ups the ante by possessing a deeply-textured, raspy voice that contrasts with her fingerpicking and she applies them to originals that made me think of the great Rory Block. … Boyes swings from gutbucket blueser to romantic with ease, and the sound is as deliciously natural and…