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MusicWeb International Double Review for Kansas City Saint-Saëns
MusicWeb International offers a double-review for our new recording of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” by Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony: “The recording captures the ravishing timbres of the instruments very well indeed; there’s real personality to the playing of both soloists…Always tasteful, Jan Kraybill certainly adds majesty to the mix as the finale hoves into view…while the bass drum and cymbals are superbly rendered…The closing pages are grand and glorious, the noble…
Now Available from FRESH — Marc Regnier: Tempo do Brasil
We are pleased to announce a new FRESH From Reference Recordings release: Tempo do Brasil Solo & Chamber Works for Guitar Marc Regnier Tacy Edwards, flute Marco Sartor, guitar Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano Natalia Khoma, cello Showcasing the Versatility and Beauty of the Guitar! Buy TODAY Grammy® nominated classical guitarist Marc Regnier has won the attention and respect of critics, producers, and musicians for over three decades as a performer, recording artist and educator. This unique…
Kansas City Symphony: Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” Now Available!
We are pleased to announce a new release from The Kansas City Symphony & Michael Stern: Saint-Saëns Smphony No. 3 “Organ” The Kansas City Symphony Michael Stern Jan Kraybill, organist Noah Geller, violin Mark Gibbs, cello Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 28 La muse et le poète for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra, op. 132 A Superb New Orchestral Release Buy Today Composed at…
Bruckner featured in Australian Hi-Fi
Australian Hi-Fi magazine features a John Sunier review for Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner Symphony No. 4 recording: “Honeck’s score section is the 1878/80 version, to my mind the most solid of the myriad choices available…There have been many fine recordings of this work, but Honeck and the superb Pitssburghians have given us a performance in phenomenal—underline that—surround sound that launches this rendition to the absolute top of the pile. The extraordinary caressing of…
Kansas City Symphony’s “Gutsy” Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Pictures on Silence blogger Don Clark has a new review for next week’s (6/12/15) Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording: “In addition to being uniformly excellent, the Kansas City Symphony can also be called ‘gutsy’. …This disc from Reference Recordings is a blend of the familiar and rare: an all Saint-Saëns disc featuring the less known “La Muse et le Poete”, op 132 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra combined with the popular…
Blues Blast Magazine Calls Exactly Like “This Superior Traditional Blues”
Blues critic Rainey Wetnight says if you better be dancing to Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This: “[Doug MacLeod] wants listeners to know that great acoustic blues sounds Exactly Like This – crisp, original, and engaging. … Nearly three decades have refined him into a renowned blues master. Performing alongside him on this album are drummer Jimi Bott, bassist Denny Croy, and pianist Michael Thompson. They all prove that music in this genre doesn’t have to…
Classical Candor Listens to new Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns Recording
Classical Candor‘s John J. Puccio requires a new recording of a work like the Saint-Saëns “Organ Symphony” “to offer either a performance of superior quality or sound that knocks your socks off. Preferably both.” Does the new Kansas City Symphony CD meet the requirements? “Under Stern, the symphony’s opening movement is appropriately restless, its familiar theme reworked several times over in various guises and tempos. It leads smoothly into the Poco adagio, which sounds just…
Photos from THE Show Newport
Thanks to the folks at Stereophile for a wonderful feature on our THE Show booth: No less a personage than recording engineer Keith O. Johnson (right) joined Ric and Jan Mancuso at the busy Reference Recordings booth in THE Show’s huge, T-Shaped marketplace. Vinyl lovers, too, were having a ball. … See the full writeup on Stereophile.com More photos via Facebook: Some fun shots from this past weekend at The Show Newport. And yes, that…
Kansas Public Radio Previews New Kansas City Symphony CD
Want to hear a preview of The Kansas City Symphony’s new Saint Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording? Tune into Kansas Public Radio this morning around 10am Central (US) time! Click to listen We are proud to present conductor Michael Stern’s interpretations of these great works, captured in brilliant HDCD sound by GRAMMY® award winners Keith O. Johnson (engineer) and David Frost (producer). The Symphony has released four previous titles with Reference Recordings to great…
Doug MacLeod at The Red Barn
Last month, we told you about Doug MacLeod’s exciting concert at The Red Barn that was presented by and then broadcast LIVE by Meridian FM, and now we’ve got some pictures to prove it!
Come See Us at THE Show Newport!
Come see us May 29-31 at THE Show Newport! Reference Recordings’ Jan and Ric Mancuso are heading out to Newport Beach for The Home Entertainment Show May 29-31, 2015 at The Hotel Irvine in Irvine, California. The RR Booth is at E 16 in The Marketplace. For more information, check out the Show Guide. Come see our newest CDs and LPs before their official release dates: Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This Two-LP 45rpm set on…
New Titles Coming Soon!
TWO new LPs coming June 2! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This Two-LP 45rpm set on 200 gram pressings in a deluxe gatefold jacket! “In May, 2014, he was awarded not one but two Blues Music Awards in the categories of Acoustic Artist of the Year (after being nominated for this award for the past six years) and Acoustic Album of the Year for There’s A Time on Reference Records. His current Reference Record, Exactly Like…
Exciting News from Tucson
An exciting news release is out from Tucson which is of particular interest to RR fans wondering about what’s coming out in the near future: Composer Stephen PaulusPhoto by Sharolyn Hagen May 6, 2015 (Tucson, AZ)— Tucson Chamber Artists—soon to be True Concord Voices & Orchestra—announced it has received a major grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to support its upcoming concert debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City this September…
Dances for Piano And Orchestra in American Record Guide
The April/May issue of American Record Guide features a wonderful new review for Joel Fan and the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra recording: “Very enjoyable! A program of short showpieces for piano and orchestra, some well known and some not so well known, like the works by Ricardo Castro Herrera and Charles Wakefield Cadman. It sure beats another disc of standard romantic concertos, though it is every bit as exciting as the best…
Pizzicato Magazine Features the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner Recording
Luxembourg based Pizzicato Magazine has high praise for the new Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck Bruckner recording: “Blending modernism and tradition, opulent sound and chamber music like refinement, Manfred Honeck can fully count on the highly motivated Pittsburgh Symphony. The result is a superbly balanced and musically rich performance of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony.” —Alain Steffen, Pizzicato Read the full rave review in German www.pizzicato.lu! Buy Now!