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Meet Nadia Shpachenko
Meet upcoming FRESH! From Reference Recordings artist, Nadia Shpachenko, in this wonderful spotlight video: Pre-Order Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 on Amazon today!
New Release — Joel Fan: Dances for Piano and Orchestra
Dances for Piano and Orchestra Joel Fan Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard, Music DirectorPierné • Castro • Chopin • Saint-Saëns • Weber • Gottschalk • Cadman Buy Today! Pianist Joel Fan is one of the most dynamic and accomplished musicians performing before the public today! He is consistently acclaimed for his recitals, recordings, and appearances with orchestras throughout the world. His concerts attract a wide range of audiences, as he has eagerly embraced traditional piano literature…
Nadia Shpachenko: Woman at the New piano
Watch a preview of our upcoming FRESH! From Reference Recordings release, Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 and Pre-Order it on Amazon today!
Kansas City Star gives Organ Polychrome a Rave
“Reference Recordings brings the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts’ organ right into your living room with its new release, Organ Polychrome. And with extraordinary organist Jan Kraybill at the keyboard, Organ Polychrome is, indeed, a multi-colored showstopper. … There’s never a sense of sameness as you listen to the CD. It’s the sort of recording you’ll want to listen to over and over. I know I did. Kraybill, one of Kansas City’s most respected…
Joel Fan Dances for Piano and Orchestra now on RR Radio
Now on RR Radio — Saint-Saëns: Valse-Caprice in A-flat Major (“Wedding Cake”), Op. 76!
Pre-Release review — Joel Fan: Dances for Piano and Orchestra
Joel Fan’s latest recording, Dances for Piano and Orchestra, gets pre-release praise from Fanfare Magazine’s Peter Burwasser: “…what a brilliant presentation we have here: Music that cannot help but delight, delivered with the utmost elegance by soloist and orchestra alike… Anyone familiar with Joel Fan’s previous Reference Recordings outings will expect to hear an ease of execution and an especially crisp and lucid sense for texture. That he delivers. What is remarkable about this collection…
CultureSpot LA Reviews Miraculous Metamorphoses
New review from Culture Spot LA’s Henry Schlinger for the Kansas City Symphony’s Miraculous Metamorphoses recording: “A recent CD on Reference Recordings featuring the Kansas City Symphony (KCS) conducted by Music Director Michael Stern shows they may be vying for a place among the best American orchestras. … Reference Recordings prides itself on producing high-quality live-performance experiences, and this disc is no exception. As with their other recordings, the music on this HDCD jumps out…
Fanfare Magazine Interviews Joel Fan!
Fanfare Magazine has a new interview with Joel Fan about his upcoming “Dances for Piano and Orchestra” release! “Fanfare: Your new CD includes works for piano and orchestra that are not piano concertos, including music by well-known composers in material that is not very well known. How did you discover this repertoire? Joel Fan: The label and I were looking for CD repertoire that would be vibrant and exciting discoveries for listeners. Works like the…
Classical Net Weighs in on Dvořák & Janáček
Classical.net‘s Brian Wigman weighs in on our Pittsburgh Symphony Dvořák & Janáček SACD: “Manfred Honeck has showed a deep sympathy for Czech music on disc, and there’s not really anything he can’t do with this orchestra. … The Dvořák is phrased in the most beautiful way; radiantly recorded, the Pittsburgh Symphony simply shines. … nothing less than a world-class band at their peak. …the Janáček is a neat and rarely heard coupling … I like…
Classical Candor Reviews Organ Polychrome
A grand John J. Puccio review for the premiere solo recording for the new Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ performed by Jan Kraybill: “Can you really think of anyone you’d rather have make an organ record than Reference Recordings? Well, anyone you’d rather have making any recording than Reference Recordings. For over thirty years they’ve been producing some of the best audiophile recordings around, and their current release, Organ Polychrome: The French School, with organist…
SA-CD.net Reviews Miraculous Metamorphoses SACD
Graham Williams reviews the new Miraculous Metamorphoses SACD featuring the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern: “The 5.1 multi-channel SACD is sonically streets ahead of the CD/HDCD version of these performances issued some months ago. The listener is placed some way back in the hall but the sound has a wide spread between the speakers with a convincing depth and a pleasing ambience, most apparent in the quieter sections of these scores. …the visceral impact…
Boston Concert Reviews Features Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers
In a new listing of reviews titled, “Flamenco Inspiration Taken to New Musical Places,” Boston Concert Reviews features the Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers release by Roberto Moronn Pérez: “One final audiophile recording recommendation that transports Spanish music and dance traditions into a new and beautiful place is Spanish guitarist Roberto Moronn Perez’s recording, Andres Sepovia Archive – Spanish Composers… The recording is excellent and allows the listener to lean into Perez’s quiet artistry: following…
Australian Hi Fi Magazine Features Respighi Reference Mastercuts LP
Audiophile Audition‘s John Sunier has a new feature for our Respighi Reference Mastercuts LP in Australian Hi-Fi Magazine: “A pair of lavish Technicolour tone poem creations from Respighi—one extremely well-known and up against much competition, and the other only the second recording of the rare ballet suite. In Pines of Rome, Eiji Oue brings out all the wild tonal colours and passion of the composer’s widescreen musical extravaganza, using extra brass and a pipe organ…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Mephisto & Co. LP
John Sunier gives our Mephisto & Co. Vinyl Re-issue a Five-Star rating on Audiophile Audition: “This is a collection of eight variously daemonically-influenced shorter orchestral favorites, ranging from not quite three minutes to twelve minutes. It got reviews calling it superb when it first came out in 1998 as a CD. Now Paul Stubbleine has remastered it and the double 45 rpm pair were pressed at QRP and they include a huge amount of notes…
ClassicalNet Reviews Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers
Brian Wigman reviews the second release in Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Andrés Segovia Archive recordings: “…these pieces will undoubtedly enhance the solo guitar repertoire, a facet of music that has gotten enormous attention and contributions over the last few decades. The works within the Segovia Archive are predictably well-crafted and worth hearing. … I raved about Roberto Moronn Pérez before, and I’ll do it again. This is truly an ambitious and difficult project, but the guitarist…