Archive for Review – Page 39
Audiophile Audition With A Four-Star Bizet Pre-Release Review
Audiophile Audition has a new four-star review of upcoming San Francisco Ballet Orchestra release Bizet: “These three works of Bizet are all well-performed, and two of them are completely unique. … The Variations chromatiques here receives its CD premiere. It was inspired by Beethoven’s 32 Variations in c, and is a dramatic set of 14 variations for piano, with the theme mostly unaltered thru all of them. It is considered the composer’s most significant piano…
Inaugural Blues Music Magazine reviews There’s A Time
Art Tipaldi has a fantastic review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time in the inaugural issue of Blues Music Magazine: “Doug MacLeod continues to breathe fresh ideas into his music. MacLeod’s warm, almost conversational, vocals coupled with his pinpoint finger picking have been the center of his art for decades. … Decades ago, Doug MacLeod learned that a bluesman reaches people and makes them feel something that helps them get through our world easier. Every…
MusicNews Nashville Loves Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time
Music News Nashville critic, Janet Goodman, has a great new review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time CD: “…acoustic bluesman Doug MacLeod always has a colorful story to tell. On his latest album ‘There’s A Time’ – his debut on the Reference Recordings label – the bottleneck-and-finger-style wiz guitarist brings to life thirteen original songs, singing in wails and whispers, punctuating lines with loosey-goosey slides on his National resonator guitars … Not only does he…
The Higher Note Pegs Doug MacLeod There’s A Time as a ‘Gem’
The On a Higher Note blog by Philip O’Hanlon has a a fun review and feature for Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time LP: “I play records at a lot of Shows and Dealer’s Music Events across the country & have never witnessed the reaction that this LP garnered. As it’s a 45 RPM LP; the sides are only twelve minutes long, so I let the whole side play each time I spun this record.…
Traveling Sonata and Viviana Guzman featured in Costal Connections Magazine
Pacifica Tribune monthly publication, Coastal Connections, has a wonderful profile of Viviana Guzmán and her Traveling Sonatas recording in their August 2013 edition: “…this breathtaking CD features the pristine musical voices of Viviana Guzmán on flute and Jérémy Jouve on guitar. From the very first piece, Gabriel Fauré’s ‘Pavane, Op. 50,’ Guzmán and Jouve weave their instruments through and within each other — breeze to waterfall, sway to jangle. And all throughout their recording, the…
BluesNews Loves Doug MacLeod’s Story-Telling
German magazine bluesnews says of Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time, “A storyteller par excellence” — “He reduces the blues to the core… This storyteller par excellence manages to captivate again within narrowly defined limits… As with the best live performances of MacLeod, you hang on every word, every whisper, every note played. Absolutely Fabulous.” — Vincent Abbate, bluesnews Read the full review in the original German on bluesnews.de! Order There’s A Time in the…
The Flutist Quarterly Tabs Traveling Sonata as Inspirational
The National Flute Association‘s Summer 2013 edition of The Flutist Quarterly has a wonderful feature on RR release Traveling Sonata featuring flutist Viviana Guzmán and guitarist Jerémy Jouve. While critic Tess Miller was impressed throughout the recording, particularly with the diverse stylings of Viviana Guzman, it was the adventurousness of the repertoire that stood out: “While the well-known tracks are very pleasing, I found the newer works for flute and guitar especially exciting. Perhaps today’s…
Enjoy The Music reviews Kansas City Symphony Elgar Vaughan Williams Recording
Our latest Kansas City Symphony recording reviewed by EnjoytheMusic.com’s Joe Milicia “…the Enigma Variations, completing the program, is something else. In a field with many formidable entries, not least the various renditions of Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli, not to mention Pierre Monteux with the LSO, Stern offers a striking performance, its many memorable details enriched by the sound engineering. … these Enigma Variations are well worth hearing, especially as realized by RR’s…
Analog Planet Reviews There’s A Time LP
Michael Fremer of Analog Planet reviews the new Doug MacLeod LP, There’s A Time: “Recording engineer Keith O. Johnson, best known for the spacious, wide sound stages and thunderous dynamics found on References classical music recordings, shows here that he can capture the enormous Skywalker space without losing the players in a watery reverb grave … Johnson is well known for capturing an orchestra’s lower registers. Here he perfectly gets the string pluck and body of…
Baltimore Blues Society Reviews There’s A Time
The Baltimore Blues Society’s Dennis Rozanski has a new review for Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time in the latest “Blues Rag”: “Recorded live in the studio, what you hear in lustrous 24-bith HDCD sound is an undoctored document of what really went down between them and a modest push from perfectly tempered bass and drums. Around the weave of crisp, jingling notes and slide slurs, MacLeod curls his lazy back-porch drawl with such natural…
The ArtsDesk Praises Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams
Kansas City Symphony’s Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording continues to bring in rave reviews! The ArtsDesk‘s Graham Rickson has a new review and places the recording in his end-of-year Top 10 list: “This is an exceptional disc in so many ways. The Kansas orchestral playing is flamboyant, assured, but always affectionate, and the recorded sound is possibly the most realistic I’ve come across. “The engineering really does serve the music, lending additional colour and warmth to Michael…
The Audio Beat reviews There’s A Time LP
The Audio Beat has published a host of new Blues vinyl reviews, and Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP gets some high marks: “This is the first blues release by Reference Recordings, and it’s quite an accomplishment for a freshman effort. I’ve heard most of Reference Recordings’ LPs over the years, and for my money this is the best-sounding yet. Forget the ones on your personal list; I’ll wager that you will find the sound…
New Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Review from ClassicalNet
Classical Net Review has a new posting for our Minnesota Orchestra Rachmaninoff release that is now available on LP: “For superior sound quality and orchestral execution, there is perhaps no more consistent series of discs than the Minnesota/Oue partnership on Reference from the early part of the previous decade. Oue and the orchestra were adventurous and clearly challenged each other. From Copland to Ravel, they revisited the orchestra’s rich traditions and explored them anew in…
HP Soundings says to Savor Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time CD
The new Harry Pearson publication hp Soundings has a slew of “New Blues Recordings To Savor” on its site, and taps Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time recording as “Soul music, through and through.” “Macleod has recently rambled over to Reference Recordings and through their Fresh! Label imprint recorded his 2011 Brand New Eyes (‘Brand’)[FR 703] and now, on the Reference Recordings label, has recorded There’s A Time (‘Time’)[Reference Recording 130]. Both titles are superb…
DownBeat gives There’s A Time Four Stars
Noted Jazz magazine DownBeat has a new review for Doug MacLeod and gives the new There’s A Time recording four stars: “It’s a spare, intimate and inspired performance. The Californian’s casually confident singing and quiet yet powerful bottleneck or fingerstyle guitar playing convey a sense that his true stories about colorful characters he’s met on the road and his own emotional responses to life situations hold insights for listeners.” — Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat Order There’s…