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Enjoy The Music reviews Kansas City Symphony Elgar Vaughan Williams Recording
Our latest Kansas City Symphony recording reviewed by EnjoytheMusic.com’s Joe Milicia “…the Enigma Variations, completing the program, is something else. In a field with many formidable entries, not least the various renditions of Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli, not to mention Pierre Monteux with the LSO, Stern offers a striking performance, its many memorable details enriched by the sound engineering. … these Enigma Variations are well worth hearing, especially as realized by RR’s…
Dallas Wind Symphony Banner Saga Recording Sessions
Here’s a look at yesterday’s “The Banner Saga” recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony: Watch live video from awintory on TwitchTV Find out more about “The Banner Saga” in yesterday’s post.
Stream the Dallas Wind Symphony Recording Seession!
Austin Wintory The Reference Recording team is in Dallas for another exciting Dallas Wind Symphony CD! Dallas Wind Symphony Records Composer Austin Wintory’s THE BANNER SAGA! Soundtrack Watch the Recording Session LIVE today (7/30) at 4:30pm (Central)! The Banner Saga: Factions Factions is the free multiplayer release of The Banner Saga, a role-playing, turn-based strategy game putting you in control of a clan of battle-hardened viking warriors. From the composer Austin Wintory: It takes place…
Vote For Doug!
Vote for Doug MacLeod for THREE Blues Blast Music Awards! A Message Direct from Doug: I’m pleased and proud to let you know (if you don’t know already) that I’ve been nominated for three Blues Blast Music Awards. Doug MacLeod – There’s A Time – Traditional Blues Album “Black Nights” – Doug MacLeod – Song Of The Year Doug MacLeod – Male Blues Artist Voting has begun and it’s free. Here’s the link where you…
Analog Planet Reviews There’s A Time LP
Michael Fremer of Analog Planet reviews the new Doug MacLeod LP, There’s A Time: “Recording engineer Keith O. Johnson, best known for the spacious, wide sound stages and thunderous dynamics found on References classical music recordings, shows here that he can capture the enormous Skywalker space without losing the players in a watery reverb grave … Johnson is well known for capturing an orchestra’s lower registers. Here he perfectly gets the string pluck and body of…
Federico Mompou — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Federico Mompou Apart from gracing the Segovian guitar repertoire with the splendid Suite Compostelana, Federico Mompou dedicated a piece from one of his two-part works (n. 13) to the guitar and also arranged the guitar version (without a date) of the Canción y Danza n. 10, originally composed for piano. The underlying melody…
Padre Donostia — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Padre Donostia A much more robust piece is the composition of José Antonio de San Sebastián, the secular name of the Cappuchine monk known across the musical world as Padre Donostia. His piece which is entitled (in the Basque dialect), Errimina (Nostalgia), attempts to evoke the delirium of an exile who, alone in…
Vicente Arregui — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Vicente Arregui The composer Vicente Arregui was a native of Madrid with origins in Navarre. He turned his attention to the guitar in the final years of his life, especially 1924-25. He wrote five pieces in which we can clearly hear reflected aspects of late Spanish Romanticism, in particular salon music which made…
Baltimore Blues Society Reviews There’s A Time
The Baltimore Blues Society’s Dennis Rozanski has a new review for Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time in the latest “Blues Rag”: “Recorded live in the studio, what you hear in lustrous 24-bith HDCD sound is an undoctored document of what really went down between them and a modest push from perfectly tempered bass and drums. Around the weave of crisp, jingling notes and slide slurs, MacLeod curls his lazy back-porch drawl with such natural…
The ArtsDesk Praises Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams
Kansas City Symphony’s Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording continues to bring in rave reviews! The ArtsDesk‘s Graham Rickson has a new review and places the recording in his end-of-year Top 10 list: “This is an exceptional disc in so many ways. The Kansas orchestral playing is flamboyant, assured, but always affectionate, and the recorded sound is possibly the most realistic I’ve come across. “The engineering really does serve the music, lending additional colour and warmth to Michael…
Composer Pedro Sanjuán — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Pedro Sanjuán Although Segovia was not yet famous in Europe prior to 1924, in Spain and in Latin-American countries he was already considered the ‘king of the guitar’, so itis no surprise that, after Moreno-Torroba, other Spanish composers committed themselves to writing new pieces for the guitar in the years 1919-1923. Amongst the…
Composer Gaspar Cassadó — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Gaspar Cassadó The great cellist Gaspar Cassadó was a friend and keen follower of Segovia, dating back to his youth, and during the course of his brief but inspired activity as a composer, took up the guitar. He celebrated special moments and events with pieces that he wrote for the instrument and which…
The Audio Beat reviews There’s A Time LP
The Audio Beat has published a host of new Blues vinyl reviews, and Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP gets some high marks: “This is the first blues release by Reference Recordings, and it’s quite an accomplishment for a freshman effort. I’ve heard most of Reference Recordings’ LPs over the years, and for my money this is the best-sounding yet. Forget the ones on your personal list; I’ll wager that you will find the sound…
Composer Jaume Pahissa — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Jaume Pahissa In his autobiography, the great guitarist writes a few words about the Catalan composer Jaume Pahissa and states that “he was not interested in composing for solo instruments or chamber ensembles, but only for large orchestral formations.” Segovia does not refer, even briefly, to the fact that in July 1919 Pahissa…
Blues Blast Music Awards Nominates Doug MacLeod!
The Blues Blast Music Award Nominations Have Been Announced! In early May, a group of Blues music industry professionals including music critics, journalists, festival promoters, music venue managers, musicians and other Blues music industry professionals nominated the best of 2013 Blues music in ten categories. Voting to determine the winners begins July 15, 2013 and continues until August 31st, 2013 on TheBluesBlast.com Doug MacLeod has been nominated for the following Blues Blast Awards: Song Of…