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Downbeat Magazine Tabs There’s A Time a Top Album of 2013
Downbeat Magazine names Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time one of the Best Albums of 2013 in their January 2014 issue! Here’s a look back at the Downbeat review from July: “Unlike any of his previous 19 studio albums, Doug MacLeod made this one ‘Live’… It’s a spare, intimate and inspired performance. The Californian’s casually confident singing and quite yet powerful bottleneck or fingerstyle guitar playing … convey a sense that his true stories about colorful…
Classical Music Sentinel Reviews Strauss
Classical Music Sentinel is excited about the new partnership with the Pittsburgh Symphony! “As if to emulate the protagonist portrayed in Don Juan, Op. 20, conductor Manfred Honeck delivers the opening pages of this orchestral masterpiece with a swift, impulsive, impetuous and almost arrogant demeanor, true and relevant to the character. The members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra respond with aplomb and sparkle… Whereas the opening minute impresses by its bravura, the final closing minute,…
Gramophone Reviews Bizet
Donald Rosenberg reviews San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s new Bizet recording in the November 2013 issue of Gramophone Magazine: “Bizet sounds like a cross between Schumann and Brahms as transported to the layered textures of the orchestra. The atmospheres lean towards the brooding and dramatic, and Weingartner takes every opportunity to add sonic interest by passing figures among instrumental sections. The San Francisco musicians give the score a performance that balances tonal depth with expressive intensity.…
Manfred Honeck recieves Rave reviews from LA Phil Performances
Pittsburgh Symphony Conductor, Manfred Honeck, was in Los Angeles over the weekend as guest conductor for the L.A. Philharmonic, and just as critics are raving over his Strauss performances, his latest performances received high praise: LA Culture Monster “Honeck found a way, leaping into Dvorák’s ‘Carnival Overture’ as if to celebrate the hall’s existence with as boisterous and as exuberant a performance as you can imagine, getting a sharp response from the Phil on accents…
Culture Spot LA Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony Strauss
Pittsburgh Symphony conductor Manfred Honeck is guest-conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic this weekend, and West-coasters are taking note of his new Strauss recording: “These works have never suffered for lack of recordings. Thus, a new recording must offer something innovative, and Honeck and the PSO certainly accomplish that. Not only are the performances outstanding, but Honeck has really plumbed the depth of each piece for all of its power, grace and pathos, and he offers…
Elgar/Vaughan Williams Review in MusicWeb International
John Quinn of MusicWeb International reflects on his introduction to the Kansas City Symphony in our Elgar & Vaughan Williams recording: “This is my first encounter with the Kansas City Symphony…it is clear that under Stern’s leadership they have been presenting very enticing seasons for several years now. … These seem to be exciting days for the music lovers of Kansas City “…engineer Keith O. Johnson has presented these performances in exceptionally fine sound. In…
Some RR History from the Audio Engineering Society
In this short video from the Audio Engineering Society, Prof. Keith O. Johnson talks about the beginnings of he and Tam Henderson working together and their first RR LP, Professor Johnson’s Astounding Sound Show! Watch the full interview here:
SA-CD.net reviews new Strauss Recording
SA-CD.net reviewer Graham Williams gives the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strauss recording a 4.5/5 for Performance and a 4.5/5 for Sonics: “the conductor’s … admiration for these works is self-evident from the incandescent playing that he elicits from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. “The work’s slow sections possess a dreamy sensuousness that emphasises the lustrous quality of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s playing … This broadness of approach extends to the delivery of the famous horn passage (from…
Richard Strauss Tone Poems
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Director, Manfred Honeck, on the Strauss Tone Poem Recordings: There are few composers who have such an impressive ability to depict a story together with single existential moments in instrumental music as Richard Strauss in his Tondichtungen (“tone poems”). Despite the clear structure that the music follows, a closer interpretative look reveals many unanswered questions. For me, it was the in-depth discovery and exploration of these details that appealed to me, as the…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Kansas City Symphony LP
Audiophile Audition has a new review for our new Reference Mastercuts LP of the Kansas City Symphony’s Elgar and Vaughan Williams recording: “This version of Elgar’s familiar “Greensleeves” variations may be the best one on recordings—absolutely spell-binding… “The work’s concluding “Finale” brings the variations to a tumultuous close, and since Reference stays away from the center label a good distance and there is only around 14 minutes maximum per side, fidelity is astounding. “…this 200-gram…
Capital Public Radio Features New Strauss Recording
Capital Public Radio’s morning host Kent Teeters reviews the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recording, Strauss in his segment below. Jump to the 8-minute mark for his discussion of the piece Don Juan and listen to an excerpt from the work: Order Strauss Today!
Audiophilia Weighs in on new Strauss CD
Audiophilia Magazine has their review of our new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recording Strauss, and agree that it’s an audiophile must-have! “…with Don Juan having a sweep and sense of virility that is infectious and Till Eulenspiegel portrayed very successfully as a lusty lad out to do no harm but paying the ultimate price for his jokes. The orchestra’s soloists are exemplary here (horns, Eb clarinet and concertmaster, in particular). As an ensemble, the Pittsburgh Symphony…
Now Available — Strauss: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Now Available! Announcing The First Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony! PITTSBURGH LIVE! STRAUSS – Don Juan; Death and Transfiguration and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Music Director Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! from Reference Recordings. Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series…
ClassicalNet Raves over new Pittsburgh Symphony Strauss CD
“Let’s be very clear here; this is what Strauss should sound like.” —Brian Wigman, ClassicalNet Classical.net has a pre-release review of our first Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recording, Strauss, and it’s quite the rave! “Now that the Pittsburgh Symphony has signed on with this pioneering label, let us hope they get some more exposure … because they are clearly one of the very best orchestras in the world right now.… “…with absolutely radiant brass playing and…
Coming Next Week…
Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! from Reference Recordings. Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to release two per year. This new release and the upcoming series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera, and chamber recordings…