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Austin Wintory Conducts The Banner Saga
Austin Wintory conducts the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in The Banner Saga: The Banner Saga Austin Wintory, composer The Dallas Wind Symphony Maluka and Peter Hollens, vocals; Taylor Davis, violin GRAMMY®-nominated,*BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory created an earthy, multi-layered orchestral score for the single player role-playing tactical game from Stoic Studios, currently available on PC and Mac. The soundtrack score features the Dallas Winds (America’s Premier Windband), recorded by GRAMMY-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson and the Reference…
Pittsburgh Symphony Dvořák & Janáček Gets New York Times Feature
The New York Times “Classical Playlist” features the Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Dvořák & Janáček recording: “Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have quietly become one of the country’s hottest partnerships in repertory staples, thereby invigorating and legitimizing the very idea of a canon. Mr. Honeck’s trademark flexible tempos, along with the spectacularly refined playing he draws, enliven this Dvorak war horse. A suite from Janacek’s “Jenufa,” conceived by Mr. Honeck and…
Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday look at the video from the Robert Moore Kickstarter campaign that led to this month’s FRESH! From Reference Recordings release, Outta My Soul! Outta My Soul Robert Moore FRESH! From Reference Recordings Buy NOW New to our Fresh! series is Robert Moore, jazz vocalist, composer, trumpet and harmonica player based in Portland. He has evolved a sound uniquely his own, mixing his Southern roots, influences of soul and gospel into his own…
Nadia Shpachenko performs Adam Schoenberg’s Miró’s World
Nadia Shpachenko performs Adam Schoenberg’s “Miró’s World” from “Picture Etudes for Solo Piano” 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 a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the…
Now Available — Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013!
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 a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar- inspired by the happy fact that the world did NOT end…
Now Available — Robert Moore: Outta My Soul
Outta My Soul Robert Moore FRESH! From Reference Recordings “Outta My Soul leaves one moved in head, heart, hand and hind…” —Tim DuRoche New to our Fresh! series is Robert Moore, jazz vocalist, composer, trumpet and harmonica player based in Portland. He has evolved a sound uniquely his own, mixing his Southern roots, influences of soul and gospel into his own distinct interpretations of bebop and swinging jazz. Outta My Soul showcases six originals and…
MusicWeb International “Digs In” to Dances for Piano and Orchestra
MusicWeb International‘s Brian Reinhart “digs in” to Joel Fan and the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra recording: “For piano lovers, this CD is like an ice cream sundae, with hot fudge drizzle, Spanish peanuts, a ribbon of cream, and a booze-soaked cherry on top. It’s pure pleasure, first note to last, with a generous heaping of sugar … There’s even a Wedding Cake. … Pianist Joel Fan, who presumably herded this programme together,…
Remembering Harry Person, Jr.
From Reference Recordings founder John Tamblyn (“Tam”) Henderson on the passing of the Great HP, founder of The Absolute Sound magazine: Harry Pearson, Jr. Harry Pearson, Jr. (January 5, 1937 – November 4, 2014) It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of HP in the world of high end audio in the 1970s and ’80s. In fact, he invented the term, and some would say the industry known as the “high end.” Those of us who…
Pérez Segovia Archive Featured on MusicWeb International
The Roberto Moronn Pérez Andrés Segovia Archive recordings get a double-review on MusicWeb International: “Roberto Moronn Pérez never puts a foot wrong in his admirable recitals, and occasionally you wonder if mediocre material is being really sold by his excellent delivery. Not so with especially great discoveries by the likes of Pahissa, Donostia, Presti and Martelli. Pérez deserves great credit for unearthing much of this music. … What an excellent series this is proving to…
The Kansas City Symphony Performs at the 2014 World Series
Here’s a look at the Kansas City Symphony’s World Series performance last night: Reference Recordings Kansas City Symphony Recordings:
Kansas City Symphony to Perform at the World Series!
Reference Recordings might be Giants fans, but with the announcement of RR artists Michael Stern & the Kansas City Symphony being invited to perform the Star Spangled Banner for Game Six, we’re happy the series is heading back to Kansas City tonight. Read about the symphony’s journey to the MLB World Series in the Kansas City Star! Reference Recordings Kansas City Symphony Recordings:
Classical Candor Reviews Joel Fan: Dances For Piano and Orchestra
The new Joel Fan and Northwest Sinfonietta release, Dances for Piano and Orchestra, gets a rave from Classical Candor critic John J. Puccio: “The soloist captures [Fantaisie-Ballet‘s] light, elegant moments nicely and then fills it out with a grand and exciting virtuosity… Fan again demonstrates his dexterity in playing with seemingly ten fingers on each hand. Yet [Vals Capricho] is also a surprisingly delicate piece of music, with a wonderfully lilting rhythm that Fan and…
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Audiophile Audition Gives Organ Polychrome Five Stars
Audiophile Audition calls Organ Polychrome “a colorful and sonically-impressive” recording in a new five-star review: “[Jan Kraybill’s] playing is expressive in the quieter portions and pulls out all the stops when hitting some of the big orchestral-imitation passages in these colorful pieces. Using the ProLogic IIx height setting on my mutichannel decoder produced an excellent soundfield with the disc, and my Oppo deck includes HDCD decoding, which is subtle but does make a slight improvement…