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Original Sound Version Reviews The Banner Saga
Original Sound Version‘s Patrick Gann reviews The Banner Saga and the Austin Wintory Soundtrack behind it: “The Banner Saga sports a 71 minute magnum opus, most of it recorded by a group of musicians known as ‘The Dallas Winds.’ So it’s a wind orchestra, and they’re from Dallas, TX. And they sound absolutely amazing. … Listening to the score over and over reveals one point I cannot stress enough: painstaking care was put into balancing…
RPGFan Reviews The Banner Saga Soundtrack
Just one more week before the CD release of the Official Soundtrack for The Banner Saga and the reviews are rolling in: “These are voices raised to comfort those on a harrowing journey and instruments played to ease the pain of tough travel. Warm horns stoke the fire inside, woodwinds soothe, and drums make marching seem like a part of something larger: a song or a work of art. … After a few tracks, everything…
The Arts Desk Reviews Miraculous Metamorphoses
The Arts Desk‘s Graham Rickson has a new rave for Kansas City Symphony’s Miraculous Metamorphoses recording: “If you’re not familiar with the [Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber] piece, start here. … Michael Stern’s Kansas City Symphony performance shows what can be achieved when a band on inspired form makes the effort to play what’s actually written. …It sparkles, abounding in oft-hidden detail. … And I’ve never enjoyed the chirping winds which…
There’s A Time Wins a “Gruvy Award”
AnalogPlanet’s Michael Fremer has launched a new feature called “The Gruvy Awards” for analog products ranging from records to record cleaners, and Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP is a first-edition New Records category Gruvy Award winner! “Yes it was recorded digitally (at 176/24) on the Skywalker Soundstage so it’s not exactly an “intimate” club date, but if anyone can warm up an empty room and the musicians accompanying him it’s Piedmont style blues specialist…
Doug MacLeod Creates A Blues Fan
Doug MacLeod has been touring all over Europe lately, and in a new review from the UK’s Blues In The Northwest, reviewer Jane Edwards talks about how Doug MacLeod turned her from someone “knowing little about blues music, and nothing about Doug” into a fan: “I went along to Liverpool Marina having seen posters on the door advertising Doug Macleod. What a treat. Knowing little about blues music, and nothing about Doug, I wondered what…
Classical Ear Reviews Elgar/Vaughan William SACD
The Classical Ear iPhone Review App has a new review for our Kansas City Symphony Elgar and Vaughan Williams SACD! “The Wasps makes a dashing curtain-raiser – and what a treat to hear the other irresistible numbers in Vaughan Williams’s inimitably titled ‘Aristophanic Suite’. Stern also masterminds a commendably sensitive, scrupulously prepared traversal of Elgar’s vernally fresh masterpiece… the engineering, which is of simply splendiferous, demonstration-worthy realism… Recommended if…you feel like giving your hi-fi components…
Photos from The Banner Saga Recording Sessions
Some absolutely fantastic pictures (taken by Scott Rosenkrantz) from The Banner Saga recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony and Austin Wintory, courtesy of Stoic Studios! Post by Stoic. First 100 CD Orders get copies signed by Austin Wintory and Keith O. Johnson! Pre-Order Today!
Signed Copies of the Banner Saga for first 100 CDs!
We’re excited to announce that the first 100 Copies of The Banner Saga ordered through the RR site and the Austin Wintory Site will be signed by both Austin Wintory and Keith O. Johnson! Pre-Order Today!
Happy 35th Anniversary to Sanch Electronix!
Happy 35th Anniversary to Sanch Electronix, one of our first and oldest distributors, and our good friend, owner Simeon Sandiford!
The Banner Saga — Strewn Across A Bridge
We aren’t the only ones with a particular liking to the Strewn Across a Bridge track from The Banner Saga! Stream it here via YouTube: Pre-Order the official Soundtrack CD for the newly released, highly touted video game THE BANNER SAGA! GRAMMY-nominated, 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 Wind Symphony,…
Classical Music Sentinel Raves for Miraculous Mandarin
Classical Music Sentinel with an absolute rave for the Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern, and the new Miraculous Metamorphoses recording: “Rarely have I heard the multiple and varied orchestral colours of Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber exposed and exhibited as well as they are in this new recording by the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Michael Stern. … It’s just that in this particular case,…
Classical CD Choice Review of Miraculous Metamorphoses
Few can match our new Kansas City Symphony recording, Miraculous Metamorphoses, according to Classical CD Choice: “Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony are on something of a roll in terms of recordings for the label, as this latest collection matches (in sheer energy and authority) earlier recordings, but the Bartok suite in particular is given a reading that points up all the barbarity and violence of the score – and few recordings match this…
The Banner Saga Available for Pre-Order
Pre-Order the official Soundtrack CD for the newly released, highly touted video game THE BANNER SAGA! GRAMMY-nominated, 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 Wind Symphony, recorded by GRAMMY-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson and the Reference Recordings team at the Meyerson Symphony Center,in Dallas, TX. In addition the score features a…
Austin Wintory Takes You Through the Process of Creating a Piece for a Video Game
Ever wondered how Austin Wintory’s process works? Ben Kuchera of Polygon asks Mr. Wintory the same question: “I became taken with the 16th track on the soundtrack, called “Three Days to Cross,” and Wintory agreed to walk me through the process of taking a piece of music for a game and bringing it to a soundtrack. Video game soundtracks, and how music is written for games in general, is a complex, often unsung part of development.”…