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Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in The Audiophile Voice
George Graves features the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 recording in the Winter 2016 issue of The Audiophile Voice: “The imaging on this recording is first rate with an excellent feeling for the huge space in which the recording was made. Reverb times are long and give a luscious, rich texture to the sound. As is usual with Johnson’s work, image specificity is spot on. It is possible to pick out each individual…
RR at San Francisco GRAMMY Nominee Party
Last week Sean Royce Martin and Keith O. Johnson represented Reference Recordings at the San Francisco Recording Academy Chapter’s GRAMMY® Nominee Celebration! Find out more about the celebration and event on GrammyPro.com!
#FBF — Bells for Stokowski
With our new recording of Jerry Junkin leading The University of Texas Wind Ensemble, Wine Dark Sea available for pre-order on Amazon, here’s a Friday Flashback to our previous release from this combination: Bells for Stokowski Nine delightful Renaissance dances by Tielman Susato start this program with a bang. The ever-popular English Folksong Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams in its original scoring continues the crowd-pleasing mood. Two important new works follow. David Del Tredici’s first…
Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Beethoven a Recording for the Ages
The Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s BEETHOVEN: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 recording receives perfect 10 ratings from ClassicsToday: “No matter how many billion recordings of this music we already have, a great performance offers its own justification, these are very great performances. … It’s not easy to offer interpretations of this music that sound new without turning capricious–that both respect the music and personalize it. Honeck and the orchestra manage to pull it off…
Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes are Digital Blues Best of 2015
The Digital Blues Podcast names the recent Reference Recordings releases from Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes to their Best of 2015 list! Listen to the podcast today: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP
ClassicsToday Enjoys Utah Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 1
ClassicsToday editor David Hurwitz reviews the Utah Symphony’s new Mahler: Symphony No. 1 recording: “Under Music Director Thierry Fischer, it’s clear that orchestral standards are considerably higher today … just as this SACD reflects improvements in engineering since the 1960s. Fischer leads a singularly appealing performance of this perennially fresh and engaging music. The first movement builds inexorably, the tempo accelerating steadily through the exciting final pages exactly as Mahler requests. Indeed, Fischer’s control of…
Classical MPR Features Pittsburgh Symphony Beethoven
Classical MPR‘s Julie Amacher interviews the Pittsburgh Symphony’s principal horn, William (Bill) Caballero on New Classical Tracks! On the latest recording, Manfred Honeck leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in two of Beethoven’s most popular symphonies, No. 5 and No. 7. Bill Caballero says what makes this recording remarkable is that it’s live. “So in one sense that’s a plus,” he says. “You’re getting a vibrant performance here. But what comes across in the recordings, which…
Wine Dark Sea Now Available for Pre-Order!
Now available for Pre-order on Amazon — Wine Dark Sea Wine Dark Sea Jerry JunkinThe University of Texas Wind EnsembleNathan 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…
Culture Spot LA Says You Need Another Beethoven Recording
Culture Spot LA‘s Henry Schlinger asks whether “we really need another record of Beethoven’s fifth or even seventh symphony”, and answers, “when it’s Manfred Honeck and the PSO, the answer is a resounding yes.”! “Honeck’s fifth is fresh right out of the gate, beginning with the way he plays the first four fateful notes. As he indicates in the liner notes, “The use of the more deliberate tempo gives the opening bars a grandiose weight,…
Far In The Heavens Will “Uplift the Soul”
Culture Spot LA reviews True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s GRAMMY-nominated album Far In The Heavens: Choral Music by Stephen Paulus: “If you like the requiems of Duruflé or John Rutter, you will like Paulus. He uses the orchestra to good effect punctuating the poems with bursts of horn or thunderous percussion and tympani when appropriate. … Most are a cappella and offer a chance to concentrate more on the angelic voices of the True Concord…
Stereo Times is Floored By Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven
Stereo Times critic Russell Lichter has been “floored” by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s new Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 recording: “Like all aficionados of my longevity, I have heard numerous versions of the Fifth over the years, but when I alighted on Carlos Kleiber’s performance on the Deutsche Grammophon label, a decade or two ago, I stopped looking. Kleiber in my opinion is one of the supreme conductors of the Twentieth…
Mike Garson Offers A New Tribute To David
Mike Garson released a Tribute to David on his RR recording The Bowie Variations in 2012. This weekend, on Periscope, he offered a new tribute to David Bowie along with memories and a rendition of the David Bowie song Space Oddity:
Flashback Friday — Wine Dark Sea Recording Sessions!
It’s time for a #FlashbackFriday share from the Wine Dark Sea recording sessions with Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. Enjoy these session photos via our Facebook album posted in September 2014: Reference Recordings Sessions with Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble Posted by Reference Recordings on Friday, September 12, 2014
Fiona Boyes on Blues Blast Magazine Cover!
Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes is on the cover of the latest issue of Blues Blast Magazine! Blues Blast Interview I love it when an “authentic” blues artist forces the blues police to re-adjust their judgment on the validity of that artist’s work even though that artist’s back story doesn’t fit the cliché of who a “real” blues artist should be.Fiona Boyes is a blonde Australian woman of Scottish descent who never heard a…
Looking Ahead — John Mackey: Wine Dark Sea
A look ahead to our upcoming March release, Wine Dark Sea, featuring Jerry Junkin conducting The University of Texas Wind Ensemble: