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January RR News
Catch up on the latest in Reference Recording News! New 33 1/3 rpm LP RESPIGHI — Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite; The Pines of Rome Eiji Oue / Minnesota Orchestrai RM-1509 Grammy® Nominated: Best Engineered Album, Classical — Keith O. Johnson, Engineer “Dazzling orchestral colors,” is one one way to describe the music of Ottorino Respighi. “Belkis, Queen of Sheba” was conceived as an evening-long ballet with singing whose lavishness has kept it from view since…
Records International Sees the Pictures in Charles Denler’s “Portraits of Colorado”
Records International sees the pictures being painted by composer, Charles Denler, in the Colorado Symphony Portraits of Colorado recording: “You can almost see the red sunsets, the golden clouds scudding across the Rocky Mountain skies, the icy rivulets running through alpine valleys, the wild horses running in slow motion and smell the high pine forests, such is the pictorial, film-score quality of the 28-minute Portraits…” —Records International Read the full review at RecordsInternational.com Buy Direct…
New Release — Anton Schwartz: “Flash Mob”
RR is happy to announce a new release featuring Jazz Saxophonist, Anton Schwartz, Flash Mob. Available at 44.1kHz/16 bit and 96 kHz/24 bit resolution! Check out Anton Schwartz’ “Flash Mob” in Studio Master Quality at HDtracks. Easy to Download, Play and Enjoy. Use code Flashmob15 to get 15% off this title. Expires February 9, 2014. One time use. Apply at checkout. Buy Now! RR is also proud to distribute other fine Anton Schwartz releases at…
Ultra High Fidelity Magazine Reviews There’s A Time LP
Canadian Hi-Fi Magazine, Ultra High Fidelity has a new rave for Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP! “It is, in a word, flawless. There’s an intensely natural feel to this recording… There’s a difference between hearing everything perfectly and being there with the musicians. This recording bridges the gap. It isn’t the sort of sonic powerhouse you get with a large orchestra. it is, in fact, something far more precious.” —Gerard Rejskind, Ultra High Fidelity…
Looking Back on Respighi Reviews
Now that our Grammy Nominated Respighi recording is available as a Reference Mastercuts LP, we wanted to take a look back at what critics were saying when it was first released! “Oue plays each piece to the hilt; I cannot imagine more precise, more lovingly conducted performances. As for the recording, I’m running out of superlatives – it is brilliant and weighty, with tremendous undistorted dynamics.”–Peter Aczel, THE AUDIO CRITIC “The sound given to this…
Stereophile Names “Strauss” A Record To Die For!
In the February 2014 issue of Stereophile Magazine, Kalman Rubinson names the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strauss SACD, a “Record to Die For.” “From the first note, one hears an immediate and direct instrumental sound, with instruments on a wide, deep soundstage that begins at the speaker plane and extends deeply. … I find this startlingly close to a real concert experience, where the hall acoustics have a more subtle influence and don’t intrude on…
ClassicalEar Gives Five Stars to Strauss
The ClassicalEar iPhone Review App has a new five-star review for our Pittsburgh Symphony Strauss SACD! “This is quite a disc. Manfred Honeck’s live performances from June 2012 bring so much to admire, not least a thrilling electricity, heaps of chutzpah, revelatory detail and sparky temperament… just sit back and marvel at the PSO’s breathtaking sheen, swaggering virtuosity and remarkable composure (fabulous horns throughout). … In short, an exceptionally stimulating and hugely charismatic Strauss anthology.…
CD Choice Reviews Elgar/Vaughan Williams SACD
Barry Forshaw raved about the Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording when it was first released. Now he has a second review of the recording after hearing the new SACD version: “…this writer was so impressed by the performance and sound quality of this cherishable disc in its CD version that I contacted Reference Recordings with my one caveat: that the disc was not afforded the company’s inestimable SACD spruce-up. And here, after some delay,…
RESPIGHI — Reference Mastercuts LP Available NOW!
RM1509 – Our Newest 33 1/3 rpm LP release — available NOW! RESPIGHI Eiji Oue & the Minnesota Orchestra Grammy® Nominated: Best Engineered Album, Classical Keith O. Johnson, Engineer “Dazzling orchestral colors,” is one one way to describe the music of Ottorino Respighi. “Belkis, Queen of Sheba” was conceived as an evening-long ballet with singing whose lavishness has kept it from view since its La Scala premiere. This is only the second recording of a…
Classical CD Choice Reviews Strauss
The UK’s Classical CD Choice has a slew of new reviews in their recent post, “From Rollicking Richard Strauss to Measured Jerry Goldsmith,” including the following review of the new Pittsburgh Symphony Strauss recording by critic, Barry Forshaw: “The mastery of the orchestra which is the hallmark of Richard Strauss’s achievement has been well served by the SACD medium, but this particular combination of three of the composer’s greatest tone poems has not heretofore appeared…
Classical Candor Reviews Strauss
Classical Candor (which recently named our Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording a 2013 favorite) has a new review for the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Strauss recording: “…what Maestro Honeck and his team offer are vigorous performances and excellent, live, hybrid multichannel SACD sound. … With Honeck it’s all about the excitement. … Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 … [is] both dreadful and peaceful, ominous and tranquil, dramatic and serene, at least in Honeck’s hands, and he builds a commendably…
DSD Downloads Now Available from Acoustic Sounds “Super HiRez”
The New Acoustic Sounds downloads store, “Super HiRez,” is now offering Reference Recordings titles as DSD downloads! Along with DSD Downloads, Super HiRez also offers our high resolution PCM files (176.4 kHz/24 bit) as FLAC and ALAC. Find all 21 New DSD recordings at the Acoustic Sounds Super HiRez Store!
Canada Free Press Raves for Strauss & Horns for the Holidays!
Canada Free Press reviewer, Jim Bray, has a double-rave review for our Pittsburgh Symphony, Strauss, and Dallas Wind Symphony, Horns for the Holidays, recordings. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strauss “A new SACD from Reference Recordings brings the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to life in your home via a fantastic recording of a trio works from composer Richard Strauss…when you fire up this disc you might just think you’re in the ‘historic Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts’…This…
Italy’s Folk Bulletin Reviews There’s A Time
Italian magazine, FolkBulletin.com has a new review for Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time recording. “Acoustic music at its very best … listening to songs like ‘The Entitled few’, ‘The Night of the Devil’s Road’ and ‘Dubb’s Talkin Religion Blues’ cannot fail to fill your soul. His lyrics are always deep, engaging and never dull…” — Fabrizio Poggi, Folk Bulletin Find the full review in the original Italian at www.folkbulletin.com Order There’s A Time in the…
Tutti Magazine Gives Roberto Moronn Perez a 10/10!
French magazine, Tutti, gives Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers recording a 10/10 rating and review! “Andrés Segovia was unable to bring all of the compositions he received to the stage, nor to save them. And that’s the whole point of this disc: present some of these beautiful pieces, written by all of the most brilliant composers. The joint program is perfect, alternating fast and slow parts, and joyous and melancholy. …each new…