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A 2015 Spring Sale!
Special Sale including New Releases STARTING NOW! Until NOON on Monday, May 18, 2015! Get 15% OFF These New and Selected Sale Titles (Discount will occur at check out): BRUCKNER – SYMPHONY 4 Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! “The sound is gloriously full and dimensional, both in stereo and surround. Not only is there layered depth and good imaging, the full orchestral sound has mass of its own,…
Blues Radio International Interviewing Doug MacLeod at the Blues Music Awards!
Enjoy these photos of Jesse Finkelstein of Blues Radio International interviewing Doug MacLeod yesterday at The Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards in Memphis. Look for Doug’s interview, stories and live performances of songs from Exactly Like This to air soon. Jesse Finkelstein of Blues Radio International interviewing Doug MacLeod yesterday at The Blues Foundation's Blues Music… Posted by Reference Recordings on Thursday, May 7, 2015
Doug MacLeod and RR in Oregon Music News
Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This and RR’s own Jan Mancuso got nice mentions in the February issue of Oregon Music News: He doesn’t record other people’s tunes. The masterful acoustic Blues guitarist and singer only records his own. He has done that again on this album which follows up his award-winning There Is a Time from 2013, which won Blues Music Awards’ Best Acoustic Album. He won Best Acoustic Artist Award that year, too. Co-produced…
Audiophile Audition Recommends Roberto Moronn Pérez
Order Now Audiophile Audition gives a four-star rating to the Roberto Moronn Pérez Andrés Segovia Archive Vol. 2 recording in a new review: “This is the second in a hopefully longer series of recordings featuring music written at the request of Andrés Segovia. … Roberto Morron Pérez is a wonderful guitar virtuoso, having studied in Spain, Italy and the U.K., and toured worldwide… The sound on this disc is marvellous, as one might expect from…
Blues Music Magazine Features Doug MacLeod
The latest issue of Blues Music Magazine has a fantastic feature and interview with Doug MacLeod. Read a sample here and then register to get the full issue online for free: 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…
Doug MacLeod Gets Four Stars from Downbeat
Four stars to Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This recording from Downbeat Magazine: “Doug MacLeod sets up camp in a rare niche of storytelling bluesman that are attuned to the textures and rhythms of life. On this excursion, the wry Californian’s distinctive singing voice and straight-talking guitar comment on a “rough-and-tumble” woman, staying true to oneself, the road back home, the splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountains and more. Subtle and firm support is supplied by…
Manfred Honeck Conducts the New York Philharmonic Next Month
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck returns to Avery Fisher Hall to lead the New York Philharmonic in a program featuring violinist Augustin Hadelich on May 28-30. This will be Honeck’s fourth appearance with the New York Philharmonic. Honeck will conduct the orchestra in a program including the Die Fledermaus Overture by J. Strauss II, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish, and Brahms Symphony No. 4. Honeck returns to New York following debuts with…
ClassicsToday Says Honeck Has “Done Right” By Bruckner
ClassicsToday critic David Hurwitz says Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony have “Done Right By Bruckner’s Fourth” giving them a 10/10 rating for Artistic Quality: “The most immediately remarkable aspect of the performance is its huge dynamic range, especially from the brass section. Pittsburgh has possibly the best horn section in the world today, not just in its ringing fortissimos, but in its ability to play softly. The strings, too, manage triple-pianos without any loss…
A First Listen To TWO New Releases
Get a first listen to TWO upcoming releases on the Reference Recordings SoundCloud Channel: Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” Tempo Do Brasil: Solo & Chamber Works for Guitar To listen directly on SoundCloud click the image below:
Exciting “Dubb” Notes
Doug MacLeod to Play at the Blues Music Awards For the second year in a row, Doug MacLeod will perform during the Blues Music Awards festivities on May 7, 2015 in Memphis TN. Below is a video from last year’s Blues Music Awards: Live Concert Radio Broadcast East Grinstead (UK) community radio station Meridian FM will present its first-ever live concert broadcast from The Red Barn in Blindley Heath featuring acoustic blues master Doug MacLeod!…
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner A New Favorite
MusicWeb International review has third review for the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s new recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony: “My keenness to review this release was engendered by the enthusiastic critical acclaim generated by the two previous offerings. … Any newcomer, who sets forth on the well-trodden road of a work such as this, will be expected to bring something new to the score. Honeck succeeds admirably, to my mind, in furnishing his reading with…
Dances for Piano and Orchestra is Superb
The Classical Reviewer‘s Bruce Reader declares Joel Fan’s performances on Dances for Piano and Orchestra “superb”: “Some superbly laid out chords open Gabriel Pierné’s (1863-1937) Fantaisie-ballet, Op. 6 showing, immediately, Joel Fan’s fine technique. He brings a great breadth and assurance before the orchestra enter to take the music forward. … Mexican concert pianist and composer Ricardo Castro Herrera’s (1864-1907) Vals Capricho, Op. 1 brings an opportunity for Joel Fan to display his lovely touch…
Exactly Like This Will Leave A Lasting Memory
UK independent music blog, Bluesdoodles, gives Doug MacLeod and Exactly Like This high praise (and high “paws”): “Doug is a blues player that sings and writes the songs telling stories he wants to share with you. …Heaven’s The Only Place the penultimate track following a blues take on rock N’ roll again is stripped bare with vocals that are full of yearning and soulfulness leading to the closing number You Got It Good (And That…
Bruckner in The Absolute Sound
The Absolute Sound‘s Andrew Quint hails Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s Bruckner recording as “an unqualified success.” “…this performance of Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ symphony is an unqualified success. … The sound is gloriously full and dimensional, both in stereo and surround. Not only is there layered depth and good imaging, the full orchestral sound has mass of its own, expanding to fill Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall at the symphony’s grandest moments.” —Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound Find…
Download a track from Woman at the new Piano!
Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano gets a great feature in I Care If You Listen‘s “Spring 2015 Mixtape”! Click the image to download! Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 Nadia Shpachenko World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers. Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion; with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics The new works were composed as a celebration of…