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Bowers & Wilkins Features Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This
Bowers & Wilkins’ Society of Sound says Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This is perfect “music for your speakers”: “Exactly Like This is a genuine, storytelling, acoustic blues album and an audiophile recording, and one that I use in a demonstration, along with his previous Reference Recordings album, ‘There’s A Time’.” —Paul Janove, Graham’s Hi-Fi London See the full feature on the Bowers & Wilkins blog! HDCDVinyl LP
Remembering David Bowie
Longtime David Bowie pianist, and RR artist, Mike Garson offers his thoughts, remembrances and a photo after the news of David Bowie’s passing: My deepest condolences are with David's family – Iman, Lexi and Duncan. The music we shared through the years is eternal and so is David and another beautiful spiritual phase awaits David. My love to you all. Posted by Mike Garson – Official on Monday, January 11, 2016 The Bowie Variations Mike Garson…
Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 Now A Reference Mastercuts LP
GRAMMY® Nominated Kansas City Symphony recording Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” is now available as a Reference Mastercuts LP! First LP mastering of this work at 45 rpm! Details RM-1514 Single 45 rpm LP 180 Gram pressing from QRP in Deluxe Gatefold Jacket Michael Stern, conductorKansas City SymphonyJan Kraybill, organProducer: David FrostRecording Engineer: Keith O. JohnsonRecorded by: Sean Royce Martin, Half-Speed LP Mastering: Paul Stubblebine Composed at his artistic peak, Camille Saint-Saëns said of his…
Conversations with Michael Stern
The Kansas City Symphony conductor Michael Stern joins WOSU Radio host Boyce Lancaster in Columbus, Ohio to talk about his musical life today as well as a look at life in the shadow of his father, Isaac Stern: Your browser does not support the audio element. Please listen on WOSU.org. Kansas City Symphony on Reference Recordings
HiFi+ Names Kansas City’s Saint-Saëns a Favorite
HiFi+ Magazine names the Kansas City Symphony’s new Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 recording one of their favorites: “Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 with organ, know as the Organ Syphony, is filled with virtuoso flourish, making for a sure fire showpiece for a hi-fi system. … Of the audiophile labels recording new works no label has ddone more for so long as Keith Johnson’s Reference Recordings. This is the fourth of Reference’s recordings with the Kansas City…
Five Stars for Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven
Audiophile Audition gives Manfred Honeck and The Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 a Five Star Review: “Pittsburgh is still the best kept secret among American orchestras, easily as good as any other ensemble active on the national scene, and this recording proves it. Even with a formidable Beethoven tradition in play, and with equally formidable competition in the catalog, this release, with its illuminating and brilliant surround sound, takes pride of place…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us at Reference Recordings! As we move into an exciting 2016, have a look back at all of our wonderful 2015 releases:
Topping the Charts!
Two releases are topping charts to end 2015 on a high note! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Box & Dice comes in at #1 on the Roots Music Reports Top Australia Albums Chart for the week of December 28, 2015! Get Box & Dice Today: Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Kansas City Symphony — Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” The Kansas City Symphony and Jan Kraybill’s GRAMMY-nominated release is the…
Beethoven an Arts Desk Best of 2015
The Arts Desk has named their Best Classical CDs of 2015 and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s new Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 has made the list: “Beethoven liked large-scale performances and he’d presumably have approved of Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performances of Symphonies 5 and 7. This is sensational orchestral playing, beautifully recorded, and these readings have an irresistible sweep and grandeur. One of those rare CDs which should leave you speechless after…
Absolute Sound Reviews Bruckner
Andrew Quint with a new review for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 recording on The Absolute Sound: “Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s last project for Reference Recordings garnered a 2015 Grammy nomination for Best Orchestral Recording, so expectations were high for this one, too. Perhaps that’s unfair, as Bruckner makes very different demands on a conductor and orchestra than do Dvorák and Janácek. But this performance of Bruckner’s “Romantic” symphony…
Blues Music Magazine Reviews Fiona Boyes Box & Dice
Blues Music Magazine‘s Pete Sardon has a new review for Blues Music Awards-Nominated artist Fiona Boyes and her Box & Dice recording: “Fiona Boyes, after having a baker’s dozen of recordings in her Aussie tucker bag, has created something unusually special in her 2015 Box & Dice CD as she uses both four- and six-string cigar box guitars, an insanely rare (one of two in existence) baritone National ResoLectric guitar and is accompanied with items…
Two Gramophone Recordings of the Year!
Gramophone Magazine has released their 2015 Recordings of the Year in a special free digital issue and includes two Reference Recordings releases! Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Jan Kraybill, organ; Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern “…the crucial test is not so much the volume of the organ but the way in which the orchestral context of the symphony as a whole is established. Here Michael Stern impressively injects impetus into the first section’s sinewy fabric,…
Blues Music Magazine Reviews Exactly Like This
Blues Music Magazine‘s Don Wilcock has a great new review for Doug MacLeod and his Blues Music Awards-nominated Exactly Like This recording: “His best songs are slices of life that leave you wanting the rest of the pie. Sometimes laconic but never lazy, Doug MacLeod is a class act story teller. … every cut on this album is truly a MacLeod original. Like all great blues men, MacLeod lives his music, and the songs are…
American Record Guide Reviews Tempo Do Brasil
Marc Tempo do Brasil gets a recommendation from American Record Guide in their November/December 2015 issue: “These same musicians brought us a disc of the music of Radames Gnatalli… I was impressed by that performance, and I took as much delight in this collection of solos and duos by various Brazilian composers. …most of the music is new to me, or at least rarely recorded‚the guitar world tends to look to solo works rather than…
Kansas City Saint-Saëns a “Definitive Version”
Kansas City Symphony’s GRAMMY® Award Nominated Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording gets a rave review from Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins in their November/December 2015 issue: “…a disc for the most demanding audiophile and for the most discerning music lover, not that the two are mutually exclusive. … This, I believe, is the most astonishingly realistic and most stunningly awesome recording I’ve ever heard, which is why I said above that it was a disc…