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Touching Base after latest Kansas City Recording Sessions
“Prof” Keith Johnson The Reference Recording team is back from Kansas City after a wonderful pair of recording sessions in the new Kansas City Helzburg Hall! The first recording was what’s sure to be another special one with the Kansas City Symphony featuring the music of Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor “Organ”, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, and La muse et le poete for Violin, Cello and…
Doug MacLeod on KPFT
Earlier this week we shared the audio from Doug MacLeod’s appearance on KPFT. Now you can watch the video via our new playlist. Check out all four videos below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod Visits Quality Record Pressings
As you may know, all of our new Reference Mastercuts LPs are pressed at Quality Record Pressings in Salina, Kansas. Well, Doug MacLeod recently took a visit and signed some copies of the LPs and took a tour of the facilities. Watch the video below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces
Click to the 2:00:00 mark to hear Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces: Your Browser doesn’t support this stream, so listen HERE Support this station by visiting their website! Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Legendary Producer Thomas Frost talks Andrés Segovia and Roberto Moronn Pérez
As RR Executive Director Marcia Martin noted in the liner notes, we were extremely happy to have legendary multi-Grammy winning producer Thomas Frost bring us the wonderful Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers recording by Roberto Moronn Pérez. Read why Mr. Frost was as excited about it as we are: I first met Roberto Moronn Pérez in Malibu, California on May 31, 2OO6. He was one of fifteen competitors in the 2OO6 Christopher Parkening International Guitar…
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Conversation with Keith O. Johnson
Recently, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra hired our own “Prof” Keith O. Johnson to record their orchestra for their own “DSO Live” label. During his time the Dallas Symphony’s own Chris Shull interviewed Keith, and published a wonderful interview with him. Here is the full article with the permission of the Dallas Symphony and Chris Shull: By Chris Shull It’s easy to think making a recording is a passive process. You set up a microphone or…
New Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Review from ClassicalNet
Classical Net Review has a new posting for our Minnesota Orchestra Rachmaninoff release that is now available on LP: “For superior sound quality and orchestral execution, there is perhaps no more consistent series of discs than the Minnesota/Oue partnership on Reference from the early part of the previous decade. Oue and the orchestra were adventurous and clearly challenged each other. From Copland to Ravel, they revisited the orchestra’s rich traditions and explored them anew in…
Blues Blast Magazine Features Lloyd Jones Doin’ What it Takes
The latest Blues Blast Magazine publication features a wonderful new review for Fresh! From Reference Recordings artist Lloyd Jones’ Doin’ What It Takes CD: “In this new millennium, Portland, OR roots artist Jones is “Doin’ What it Takes” to keep the blues alive and his fans loyal…On this latest release, ten high-energy blues rock and roots songs bolster his already formidable reputation. Purists may frown at Jones’ mixing of genres, but those searching for powerhouse,…
HP Soundings says to Savor Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time CD
The new Harry Pearson publication hp Soundings has a slew of “New Blues Recordings To Savor” on its site, and taps Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time recording as “Soul music, through and through.” “Macleod has recently rambled over to Reference Recordings and through their Fresh! Label imprint recorded his 2011 Brand New Eyes (‘Brand’)[FR 703] and now, on the Reference Recordings label, has recorded There’s A Time (‘Time’)[Reference Recording 130]. Both titles are superb…
On the Andrés Segovia Archive – Part Two
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Perez (Read Part One Here): From the very first concerts of the 1920s Segovia’s approach in commissioning new music was very clear. As he was dealing with world renowned composers, he did not attempt to criticize the new works, he simply evaluated each piece in terms of its affinity with his own personal sound…
On the Andrés Segovia Archive – Part One
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Perez: One of Andrés Segovia’s greatest achievements in the history of guitar music was his success in commissioning new works for his instrument. From the very outset of his career he took the decision to become actively involved in encouraging world renowned composers to write for him. up till that point, guitar performance had…
DownBeat gives There’s A Time Four Stars
Noted Jazz magazine DownBeat has a new review for Doug MacLeod and gives the new There’s A Time recording four stars: “It’s a spare, intimate and inspired performance. The Californian’s casually confident singing and quiet yet powerful bottleneck or fingerstyle guitar playing convey a sense that his true stories about colorful characters he’s met on the road and his own emotional responses to life situations hold insights for listeners.” — Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat Order There’s…
Reference Recordings heads to Newport Beach for T.H.E. Show
Reference Recordings’ Jan and Ric Mancuso are heading to Newport Beach for The Home Entertainment Show 2013! For those looking to attend, RR will be in THE Marketplace located in the Catalina room at the Hilton Irvine, near the Orange County/John Wayne Airport (the same location as last year for those that were there). RR will be the only label at the show issuing NEW, original recordings – and there’s a possibility that Doug MacLeod…
Reference Recordings Celebrates The Rite of Spring 100th Anniversary
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premeire at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Here’s a look back at our Stravinsky recording with the Minnesota Orchestra which features The Firebird Suite, The Song of the Nightingale, and The Rite of Spring: Stravinsky scarcely needed more than The Firebird to assure his fame, but he followed it with Petrouchka exactly a year later, and then, in 1913, delivered the ballet that caused a riot: The…
Blues and Soul Reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time
The Blues & Soul Magazine has quite the rave review for Doug MacLeod‘s There’s A Time: “Sometimes the very best music can make time stand still. Clocks stop. It’s neither day nor night. The bank balance is irrelevant. The bills printed in invisible ink. Nothing else matters at that particular epoch. You just float away on the wonderful sounds coming from your speakers. There’s also another emotion that great music can evoke, and that is;…