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Is Box and Dice Fiona Boyes’ Best Yet?
“Ever since she won the solo acoustic category in the International Blues Challenge of 2003 (the first woman and the first Australian to do so) Fiona Boyes has been as unstoppable as a wild fire. She’s won more awards and accolades than you can shake a guitar at and she gathers more fans with each new release. The release at hand will likely bring even more into the fray. … Outside of three wonderful covers,…
Get Ready to Dance with Augusta Read Thomas and EOS!
The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Augusta Read Thomas’ work EOS (Goddess of the Dawn), A ballet for orchestra and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Photo © by Anthony Barlich My catalogue includes 45 additional works for orchestra or orchestral concerti, and I conceived most of my orchestral and chamber works as suitable for dance. I stand at the drafting table as I…
Wine Dark Sea Debuts in the Billboard Chart
Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble’s Wine Dark Sea Debuts at #20 in the Billboard Classical Chart! Wine Dark Sea ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
Latest Releases are HDTracks Top 25 Recordings
Our latest release Wine Dark Sea is already a top-25 bestseller on HDtracks, but it’s not the only Top-25 RR recording on their list! See some of the recordings below and click the image to view them all on HDtracks.com!
Andrew Norman’s “Switch” A Game of Control
The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Andrew Norman’s work Switch and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Andrew Norman © Jessa Anderson During rehearsals for the premiere performances of Switch, Colin Currie gave me an amazing metaphor for the piece. He said that playing Switch feels like being trapped (in the best possible way) inside a giant pinball machine. It’s an apt image for…
Wine Dark Sea is “another Rolls-Royce”
MusicWeb reviews Wine Dark Sea: “Dan Welcher, whose Spumante opens with the popping of a cork, is new to me. This engaging piece, commissioned by the Boston Pops, is rather more subtle than its effervescent title might suggest… Welcher casts the net wide… I’ve not encountered the music of Donald Grantham before, but his Louisiana-inspired J’ai été au bal (I went to the dance), with its artful use of Cajun tunes, is an ear-pricking, toe-tapping…
A First Listen to Utah Symphony’s “Dawn To Dust”
Dawn To Dust World Premieres of Three Works Commissioned by the Utah Symphony Utah Symphony Thierry Fischer, Music Director Pre-Order on Amazon Today First Listen: DAWN TO DUST contains live recordings of three significant and adventurous works by leading composers Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman. World-renowned percussionist Colin Currie performs on Andrew Norman’s “Switch.” The Utah Symphony, celebrating its 75th anniversary in the 2015-16 season, is one of America’s major symphony orchestras…
#NowPlaying on YouTube Music — Wine Dark Sea
Wine Dark Sea is streaming now on YouTube Music: Wine Dark Sea Jerry Junkin, conductor The University of Texas Wind Ensemble Nathan Williams Purchase Today: ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
Wine Dark Sea Is Available Today
Wine Dark Sea Jerry Junkin, conductor The University of Texas Wind Ensemble Nathan Williams The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has firmly established itself as one of America’s elite wind bands Active in the area of commissioning new music since 1988, the group has offered world premiere performances of works by many composers including John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher. One of the guiding principles of the ensemble is contact…
Meet Nathan Williams
New release, Wine Dark Sea features Frank Ticheli’s Concerto for Clarinet performed by clarinetist Nathan Williams. Meet this performer today: An internationally celebrated soloist and chamber musician, clarinetist Nathan Williams has recently been praised for his “sublime control”, “silky sound”, and “dazzling technique”. He is the principal clarinetist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston and, along with pianist Audrey Andrist and violinist James Stern, is a founding member of Strata, a trio that…
Reference Recordings Celebrates International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrate with our newest Spotify playlist highlighting our women artists:
Boston Concert Reviews Recommends Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven Symphony Nos. 5 & 7
“These performances are ravishing in their expansive sound and buoyancy. Each movement brings new gifts to explore: the expressive weight of the strings (all vibrant tones and capacious plucks); the ringing out of brass choruses thunderous and deep in the stage or the highest piccolo leaps tremulous and fragile. Honeck has the orchestra working with great alertness as to each intrepid moment in Beethoven’s brilliant writing. … This is a superb recording, especially in its…
Frank Ticheli on his Concerto for Clarinet
Frank TicheliPhoto by Charlie Grosso Composer Frank Ticheli breaks down his Concerto for Clarinet, recorded on next week’s Jerry Junkin and University of Texas Wind Ensemble release Wine Dark Sea: I had wanted to compose a concerto for clarinet, and was delighted when a commission came my way from clarinetist Håkan Rosengren. His fiery virtuosity, combined with his poignantly beautiful sound, had a direct influence on my creative decisions throughout the work. The concerto’s three…
Reference Recordings Featured In Pacifica Tribune
Thanks to the Pacifica Tribune for the recent feature for RR, True Concord Voices & Orchestra and Stephen Paulus after the recent GRAMMY win for Paulus’s Prayers & Remembrances: This record is not Reference Recordings first Grammy (they received a Grammy in both 2011 and 2004), and it was not their first walk down the red carpet. This year’s Grammys were hosted at Staples Center in Los Angeles and the Reference Recording team, all dressed…
Donald Grantham Talks “J’ai été au bal”
Composer Donald Grantham breaks down his work J’ai été au bal recorded by Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble’s upcoming release Wine Dark Sea: J’ai été au bal is a celebration of some of the popular/folk music styles of Louisiana— in particular Cajun music and the brass band tradition of New Orleans. The dance flavor of much of the music is suggested by the title (“I went to the dance”), and two…