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ClassicsToday gives top scores to the new Pittsburgh Symphony SACD!
ClassicsToday gives a 10/10 for Artistic Quality and a 10/10 for Sound Quality to the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Dvořák & Janáček recording, hailing it as “Honeck’s Incandescent Dvořák 8th!” “There are few things more wonderful in the life of a record collector than a really great recording of a repertory warhorse. … along comes a performance by a conductor who loves the music, who has genuine ideas about how it should go and what…
Pizzicato Magazine with a Rave for the Pittsburgh Symphony!
Luxemburg’s Pizzicato Magazine has a new rave review for the Pittsburgh Symphony and their new Dvořák and Janáček recording: “This is one of the most gripping performances of Dvořák’s 8th Symphony that I ever heard. Honeck and Pittsburgh excel themselves and definitely team up to one of those great partnerships like Solti and Chicago, Ozawa and Boston, Bernstein and New York, Szell and Cleveland, Tilson-Thomas and San Francisco.” —Alain Steffen, Pizzicato Read the full review…
#Throwback Thursday — The Curios “Cherries on the Ground”
With the recent surge in FRESH! From Reference Recordings releases including two from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Moronn Pérez, and The Banner Saga Soundtrack, here’s a #ThrowbackThursday post to our first of the FRESH! Releases — The Curios: Pillow Book! Order Today!
“You won’t be disappointed” with the New Pittsburgh Sympony SACD
Film music critic, Thomas Kiefner says “You won’t be disappointed” with the new Pittsburgh Symphony Dvořák/Janáček SACD: “One of the keys to the success of this recording is the superior sound which you’ll best hear in SACD… When I played it through my stereo system the result was nothing short of spectacular. Yes you’ll hear the occasional rustling of the papers and a stray cough but at least to me I didn’t find it distracting…
RR at the California Audio Show
In just over a month, Reference Recordings will be at the San Francisco California Audio Show. Get your tickets now and come say hello! From www.caaudioshow.com: Welcome to the 2014 California Audio Show, our 5th year in the world famous San Francisco Bay Area, also home to Silicon Valley. Our show is now in its fifth year! Come experience the mesmerizing sounds and audio equipment presented by over 60 Exhibitors in 50 rooms. You’ll be…
Gramophone Reviews Kansas City Symphony’s Miraculous Metamorphoses
Gramophone Magazine’s July Issue of “Sounds of America” features the Kansas City Symphony and their latest release, Miraculous Metamorphoses: “The Kansas City Symphony have been on a roll with Michael Stern…[Miraculous Metamorphoses] are works that provide conductor and musicians with a spectrum of atmospheres and colours into which they can sink their respective teeth. Stern and his orchestra do so to captivating effect, without resorting to sonic exaggeration. … Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of…
Audiophilia Recommends New Pittsburgh Symphony SACD
Audiophilia recommends the new Pittsburgh Symphony Dvořák/Janáček recording in their July Recommended New Releases: “Here, under a warm Bohemian sun, the Pittsburgers and their man have scored a home run. … And, though the opera Jenůfa is about child loss and redemption, conductor Honeck’s ‘conceptualization’ of the opera’s themes into a ‘Suite’ makes for very enjoyable listening. The pathos is there but with such wonderful and infectious rhythms, it’s hard to feel down. … Taken…
Now Available — The Pittsburgh Symphony: Dvořák & Janáček!
Dvořák • Janáček Manfred Honeck Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraFR-710 SACD Antonin Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 Leoš Janáček Symphonic Suite from “Jenůfa”(Conceptualized by Manfred Honeck, realized by Tomáš Ille) Thrilling Live Performances From The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, In Brilliant Audiophile Sound! This release is the second in the “Pittsburgh Live!” series of multi-channel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! series from Reference Recordings. For more than 116 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra…
Film Music Critic Reviews The Banner Saga
Film music critic, Thomas Kiefner, takes on Austin Wintory’s The Banner Saga Soundtrack on his blog, Film Music: The Neglected Art. “The opening cue ‘We Will Not Be Forgotten’ a scant forty seven seconds does set the mood for the remainder of the score. It is a proud majestic opening featuring the horns of the Dallas Winds. ‘How Did It Come To This’ opens like an orchestra tuning up before it switches to a contrabassoon…
Culture Spot LA Reviews New Pittsburgh Symphony Release
Culture Spot LA, which reviewed the first Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recording on FRESH! From Reference Recordings, is already raving about the next installment in the “Pittsburgh Live!” series: “Anyone who is familiar with the Dvořák G major symphony will find Honeck’s interpretation remarkable. Like his interpretations of the Strauss tone poems, Honeck takes great liberties with the tempo and dynamics in order to realize his vision. … The result is a fresh and exciting version…
Classical Candor Praises the latest Andrés Segovia Archive Installment
John J. Puccio’s Classical Candor blog praises the performances of Roberto Moronn Pérez in the French Composers edition of the Andrés Segovia Archive: “Perez does each man and his work fair justice. He plays with flair but also with nuance and subtlety. His guitar opens up each work and expands it seemingly beyond the limits of a single instrument. …if you are like me you will find each work entertaining, touching, or enlivening as the…
Roberto Moronn Pérez On the Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers
A note from Roberto Moronn Pérez on his new Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers recording: The works included in this recording are part of the corpus of the Segovia Archive that contains the manuscripts Segovia received during his career from those composers who had the sensibility to write for him, but which, for a variety of reasons, he did not add to his repertoire. I am not going to speculate why he did not play…
Autrement Blues Reviews “There’s A Time”
“There’s A Time” gets a rave review in French magazine, Autrement Blues: “Slide/resonator master Doug MacLeod’s latest album is a genuine bit of brilliance, with changing tempo, skillful picking and thoughtful, laid-back lyrics. Indeed, so good, that it has just swept the board at the Blues Foundation’s awards 2014 in Memphis in May. MacLeod’s work is always strong and sound; music that is always eagerly anticipated by acoustic blues fans everywhere. With this latest CD,…
Andrés Segovia Archive: Raymond Petit
Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers Raymond Petit One year before De Breville’s Fantaisie, another untitled work was written in 1925 by Raymond Petit (1893-1976). Composer, writer and music journalist, he was very active in Paris during the 1920s and 30s. In fact, he praised Segovia in numerous concert reviews. In 1926, Segovia gave a concert that featured the premier of a Petit piece under the title Andantino. A reviewer of that concert described it as…
Andrés Segovia Archive: Pierre de Breville
Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers Pierre de Breville César Franck’s student Pierre de Breville (1861-1949), wrote an untitled piece for Segovia in 1926. Angelo Gilardino (General Editor of the Andrés Segovia Archive) with great perception, basing his criterion on the form of the work which is neither a sonata nor a suite, neither variations nor a rondo, and because of its changeable character has given it the title Fantaisie. Composed in 3 sections, modally oriented,…