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Joel Fan on KING FM Tomorrow Night
Tune in to Seattle’s KING FM on Friday night to hear Joel Fan with the Northwest Sinfonietta! Via KINGFM.org: Tune in to hear powerhouse pianist Joel Fan play a collection of rare dances for piano and orchestra by Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Liszt. The Sinfonietta, known as one of the finest Mozart orchestras in the country, concludes the program with the Viennese composer’s “Prague” Symphony No. 38. This broadcast is sure to be FAN-tastic—pun intended! Click…
One Week Until Pittsburgh Symphony’s Strauss Release!
Our first release in a new series with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Strauss, comes out in one week, but you can stream a new excerpt from Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and pre-order today! Pre-Order Today! 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…
Stream an excerpt from Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Stream an excerpt from Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 from our new Strauss recording with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Pre-Order Today! 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.
Stream a Sample from the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Release!
Stream a sample for our upcoming release featuring the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Pre-Order Today! 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.
More Portraits of Colorado Tourism Videos
COLORADO TOURISM 60 SECOND SPOTS from Forge Motion Pictures on Vimeo. Charles Denler’s Portraits of Colorado An American Symphony No. 1 and Six Variations for violin and piano The Colorado Symphony and Chorus Scott O’Neil, conductor World Premiere Recording! “PORTRAITS OF COLORADO, An American Symphony No.1” is the first in a series of symphonies composed by Charles Denler. Inspired by a sunrise over the Rocky Mountains, and the incredible works of American painter, Jerry Malzahn,…
Happy Birthday Bizet!
Today marks Georges Bizet’s 175th Birthday! Celebrate with our new Bizet recording! Order Securely from ReferenceRecordings.com!
Blues Blast Music Awards Next Week!
Next Week (10/31) brings the 2013 Blues Blast Music Awards Show and RR’s Doug MacLeod is nominated for THREE awards! Song Of The Year: Black Nights (There’s A Time) Traditional Blues Album: There’s A Time Male Blues Artist of the Year: Doug MacLeod So keep your fingers crossed for Doug! Nominee listEvent Tickets Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
TAS Tabs RR Releases as “Hidden Treasures”
The Absolute Sound 2014 High-End Audio Buyer’s Guide was just published and includes a feature in which writers list their recommended ‘obscure’ music and encourage readers to go find it. Two RR Minnesota Orchestra recordings were selected in this “Ten Little-Known But Great-Sounding Recordings” list! Mephisto & Co., Minnesota Orchestra “…it gets my vote as the single best sounding RR CD. The centerpiece of the collection is Malcolm Arnold’s Tam O’ Shanter Overture, here in…
Audiophile Audition Gives Roberto Moronn Perez Four Stars
Audiophile Audition gives four stars to FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive, Vol. 1 featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: “Andrés Segovia is regarded as the savior of the classical guitar and its literature…These are mostly short, rather quiet, guitar pieces by six Spanish composers: Aregui, Sanjuan, Cassado, Donostia, Pahissa and Mompou…Spanish-born Perez is an accomplished guitarist…The outstanding recording was made in 2010 in the acoustics of the Holy Trinity Church in Weston, Hertfordshire…
A Fun Amazon Review for Elgar/Vaughan Williams
We have good news for Amazon Reviewer David Rowe who left the following Amazon.com review: What a wonderful disc with which to start the year. Superlative Reference Recordings HDCD sound is just the beginning. And to that point I must admit to being extremely disappointed this wasn’t released in SACD as was Kansas City’s other RR recording (of Britten), which is one of the most spectacular SACDs ever made. But, not to worry – amazingly…
RMAF 2013 Wrap-Up
Charles Denler (Portraits of Colorado), Doug MacLeod (There’s A Time), and Lorenz Rychner (Recording Magazine) Last weekend, RR (represented by Jan and Ric Mancuso) joined 170 audio exhibitors in Denver at the 10th annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Held in the Tech Center Marriott, the RR booth in the Evergreen Ballroom was visited by music lovers young and old, including new customers, longtime supporters, industry friends, RR artists, and journalists. RR artist, Doug MacLeod, performed…
RR in RMAF News
After a fantastic weekend (more on our weekend experience soon), everyone in the Audiophile world is still raving about people, equipment, and their time at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest this weekend. Here are a couple of RR-Related tidbits: From Stereophile In the Joseph Audio Room “…the beauty of Reference Recordings’ LP version of Vaughan Williams’ The Wasps confirmed the superiority of both the equipment chain and the Keith Johnson/Sean Martin recording team.” In the ApexAudio…
RMAF 2013 Photos
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RR at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this weekend!
The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel on October 11-13, 2013. Furniture will be removed from over 170 of the hotel’s sleeping rooms and manufacturers will set up complete stereo systems for attendees to audition. You are encouraged to go from room to room, have a seat and casually listen. In fact, feel free to bring your own iPods, discs or records to the show, as most…
New SACD and LP Formats! Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves
Now Available New SACD and LP formats! (Compact disc RR-129 and HR-129 176.4 kHz/24 bit DVD-R also available.) Kansas City Symphony Orchestra Michael Stern, conductor Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves RR-129SACD This magnificent symphonic recording with the Kansas City Symphony now also available as a multi-channel SACD hybrid! The disc contains both 5.1 surround and stereo SACD layers, as well as a stereo compact disc layer made with the HDCD process for…