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Kansas City Symphony to Open Chiefs 2015 Season
The Kansas City Symphony will follow up their 2014 World Series National Anthem performance by leading The Star-Spangled Banner at the Kansas City Chiefs home opener on September 17! From the KC Star: The Kansas City Symphony has played at a number of venues, but this fall it will perform at Arrowhead Stadium for the first time. On Sept. 17, the KC Symphony will perform the national anthem for the Chiefs home opener against the Denver…
Minnesota Orchestra’s Copland a Triumph
Celebrate #ThrowbackThursday with a 2013 review of our Minnesota Orchestra: Copland 100 CD, and buy the newly released LP today! “The Minnesota Orchestra has a rich history of excellence when it comes to Copland, both on record and with the various music directors who have led the ensemble. That tradition is gloriously upheld in this 2000 tribute program. As always, Oue leads his marvelous players with distinction, and the sound is top notch. If you’re…
Daily Music Break Talks with Doug MacLeod
The Daily Music Break has a new podcast catching up with Doug MacLeod. See the post on dailymusicbreak.com and listen below: Your browser does not support the audio element. Exactly Like This Buy the HDCD! Buy the Vinyl LP! “His insightful lyrics, unique voice, steady beat, and delicious resonator guitar sounds may entice you to join the ever-increasing ranks of Dubb Heads. …” —Blues Blast Magazine “The blues are storytelling personified and there is no…
Five Star Kansas City Saint-Saëns Reviews
Amazon listeners are weighing in on The Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best recording of Saint-Saen’s “Organ” Symphony I’ve heard so far. The dynamics are so amazing, especially in the last movement, that it gives me goosebumps listening to it. My listening equipment isn’t top end, so I can’t really hear the absolute low notes from the organ, but it’s still amazing. I can’t wait to hear this on a…
ClassicalEar Gives Four Stars to Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner
The ClassicalEar iPhone Review App has a new review for Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner recording: “Manfred Honeck distils a truly awesome hush and mystery at the outset of this bracingly alive and exceedingly stimulating account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony (‘The Romantic’), the stunningly eloquent horn solo serving notice that his superb Pittsburgh band can boast players of the highest international calibre. What follows is a reading rich in arresting drama, recreative spark,…
More Coming From the Kansas City Symphony
Raves for the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” are rolling in, but there’s more to be excited about with the Kansas City Symphony as The Kansas City Star explains: “Reference Recordings is not one of the larger classical recording labels, but to cognoscenti it’s one of the finest. Founded in 1976 by John “Tam” Henderson and Keith O. Johnson, the label is devoted to quality, not quantity. Many of them have been…
Audiophile Audition Gives Tempo do Brasil Five Stars
Steven Ritter gives Marc Regnier’s Tempo do Brasil recording five stars in Audiophile Audition magazine: “[Marc Regnier’s] carefully selected recital works in favor of chamber ecstasies that are just not heard that often in this sort of music. …for a quality classical experience the multi-instrumental soiree is enlightening as well as enlivening. Considering Regnier’s gorgeous tone and flexible technique, equally present in his guest’s fingers as well, we come away with a refreshing splash on…
“Make Room” for Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns
ClassicalNet critic Brian Wigman reviews the new Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording: “Are we having fun yet? This is yet another fantastic disc. The Kansas City Symphony is one of America’s finest ensembles…And Michael Stern is one of America’s finest conductors…Stern gives his excellent first-desk soloists a chance to shine. The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso sparkles here, and in outstanding sound.… The orchestra plays with total commitment and real power.… The…
Joel Fan Takes Dances for Piano and Orchestra to the Classical Classroom
Joel Fan joins Houston Public Media‘s “Classical Classroom” and features his latest release, Dances for Piano and Orchestra: Dances for Piano and Orchestra JOEL FAN Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard, Music Director RR-134HDCD Pierné, Castro, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Weber, Gottschalk, Cadman Buy Now
Marc Regnier Tempo do Brasil a “Gift-Giver’s Delight!”
Marc Regnier’s Tempo do Brasil hailed as a “Gift-Giver’s Delight!” by Kara Dahl Russell and Delmarva Public Radio: “This CD plays like a truly collaborative Chamber performance, led by Grammy nominated, Peabody Conservatory grad. Regnier. The 4 artists on this CD take turns in solo works and a variety of pairings of accessible works, mostly with a latin rhythm – composers like Assad, Villa-Lobos, Almeida, Powell, and more. This CD was on air when our…
Rad Bennett Listens to Minnesota Orchestra’s Strauss
Audiophile critic Rad Bennett has a new review of an HDtracks download of our Minnesota Orchestra recording of Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben with Eiji Oue: “… the orchestra covered itself in glory. Lush, detailed, exciting, and heroic are all words that come to mind to describe this performance. The download also included a suite of interludes from the opera Die Frau Ohne Schatten, which is awesome, dramatic, and romantic music we should hear more often! ……
Five Stars for Kansas City Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3
Kansas City Symphony’s new Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording gets a new Five Star review from an Amazon reviewer: “Beautiful recording. I have quite a few recordings of this Symphony and have actually played this myself in college days. I wanted this recording because the Kansas City Symphony is such an amazing “young” symphony. But, I’ll have to be honest, I wanted the recording to hear the organ in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman…
Nadia Shpachenko and Jan Kraybill Thursday Videos
Nadia Shpachenko Performing George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening Buy Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano Read the latest Woman at the New Piano review! Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony Test the Casavant Organ Get Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony recording today! Hear Jan Kraybill and the Casavant Organ in full splendour in Organ Polychrome!
Kansas City Star Recommends Saint-Saëns
The Kansas City Star‘s Patrick Neas makes his suggestions for music to listen to this summer and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” is on the top of his list: “There are many recordings of Camille Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony on the market, but Reference Recordings has just released a CD by the Kansas City Symphony that can take its place with the best of them. The KC Symphony, with superb direction from…
Woman at the New Piano a “New Favorite”
Critic Don Clark has “a new favorite” in Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano recording: “Woman at the New Piano is an album with a surely cosmic purpose… this prodigiously talented, California-based pianist and teacher, has recorded a delightful and diverse program of brand new works she commissioned in 2013 from four outstanding composers, Tom Flaherty, Peter Yates, Adam Schoenberg and James Matheson. … Shpachenko makes a most convincing case for [Adam Schoenberg’s “Picture…