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2012 Year In Review – Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
2013 is quickly approaching and we’re taking a look back through our 2012 releases! DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet Orchestra Extended Suites From the Ballets Producers Victor and Marina Ledin’s 2012 portfolio (including Delibes: Syliva and Coppélia) has been nominated for the 2013 Producer of the Year (Classical) GRAMMY Award! REVIEWS: “Both scores receive first-rate performances… [Martin West] obviously knows the scores like the back of his hand… As such, both Coppélia and Sylvia…
2012 In Review – New Reference Mastercuts LPs
2013 is quickly approaching, so take a look back though our 2012 releases! New Reference Mastercuts Releases RACHMANINOFF: SYMPHONIC DANCES; VOCALISE (RM-1504) Eiji Oue/ Minnesota Orchestra 33 1/3 rpm, Half-Speed Mastered, 200 gram virgin vinyl from Quality Record Pressings in gatefold jacket FIRST TIME EVER ON LP! Widely believed to be the finest orchestral recording RR has ever made. Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the most beloved composers of the twentieth century. His music is…
Doug MacLeod Nominated 2013 Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year
The Blues Foundation has released their 2013 Blues Music Awards nominees, and there is a familiar name up for Acoustic Artist of the Year — Doug MacLeod! Doug MacLeod will be releasing his next recording, There’s A Time, on Reference Recordings in March 2013, and he isn’t the only artist on the coming CD on the list. There’s A Time drummer, Jimi Bott is nominated for the “Instrumentalist – Drums” award! So congratulations to Doug…
Stereophile Reviews Horns for the Holidays
Stereophile.com‘s Jason Victor Serinus has a wonderful review on Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays, and even includes an interview with Keith O. Johnson! “As you can well imagine, Johnson, who has something like nine Grammy nominations for Engineering and one Grammy Award for Best Surround Recording to his credit, takes full advantage of this opportunity to show what Reference Recordings can do. Even heard without the advantage of Johnson’s HDCD decoding, Horns…
Jérémy Jouve Plays Duplessy
Traveling Sonata artist Jérémy Jouve performs composer Mathias Duplessy’s Cavalcade for solo guitar on the recording, and here he performs the composer’s Nocturne, No. 1 for guitar: Watch on YouTube Purchase Traveling Sonata during the Reference Recordings Holiday Sale and Save 20% when you purchase one other recording!
Reference Recordings Holiday Sale!
It’s The Best Reference Recordings Sale of the Year! Starting Now until Noon on Wedneday, January 3, 2013, Order Two items or more and get 20% off EVERYTHING in our catalog* — THE MORE YOU ORDER THE MORE YOU SAVE!!! Start Saving Today! *all items except already discounted sets
The Audio Beat gives Horns for the Holidays the Highest Praise
The Audio Beat‘s John Crossett weighs in on new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays, and his end quote is about all the endorsement one should need: “This is a special recording on a number of different levels… the arrangements of these familiar tunes veer just far enough away from tradition to keep listeners engaged. You’ll always recognize the melody, but in an almost jazz-inspired way. Junkin and the Dallas group take this…
Wind & Rhythm Features Horns for the Holidays This Weekend!
Wind & Rhythm will feature new Dallas Wind Symphony Christmas release Horns for the Holidays this weekend! Check out the preview: Episode 214: Santa’s Sousaphone It was July in Dallas when the Dallas Wind Symphony gathered to do a recording session. It was over a hundred degrees outside and inside the awesome Meyerson Symphony Hall everyone wore shorts and t shirts. The staff had put up Christmas decorations but at first it was hard to…
HRx Sampler Available as Hi-Res Download!
For the first time ever, you can get our HRx Sampler: A Classical & Jazz High Resolution Spectacular as a 176kHz/24bit DOWNLOAD via HDtracks.com! Download The Absolute Sound‘s “Best of Show” for Greatest Technological Breakthrough direct from HDtracks.com for $22.98! “… HRx albums from Reference Recordings are unlike anything I’ve ever heard. While I did have high expectations for these releases I certainly did not expect anything this close to perfection. I am absolutely blown…
Horns for the Holidays makes Inner Fidelity Gift Guide
Inner Fidelity‘s John Grandberg recommends new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays in his new 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: “There must be countless albums full of Christmas music out there, with more coming every year. Unfortunately, much of it is poor in both musical quality and content. Not so with the latest from the Dallas Wind Symphony, courtesy of the aptly-named Reference Recordings. This brilliant album is full of Christmas music that you’ll…
ClassicsToday Raves about new Horns for the Holidays CD
ClassicsToday.com reviewer David Vernier gives new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays a 9/10 for artistic quality and a 10/10 in Sound Quality in his rave review “A Merry, Windy Christmas.” “If you are a lover of Christmas music—carols, popular songs, and all manner of medleys and clever arrangements of such—and you miss this extraordinary recording by the first-rate Dallas Wind Symphony, then your holiday listening stands to be just a bit more…
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Positive Feedback for Playing With Fire
Karl Lozier of Positive Feedback gives new Dallas Wind Symphony release Playing With Fire: Music By Frank Ticheli a rave review: “Many listeners need to know about this gem of a recording…you are going to like it at first listen. Make certain that you read along with the fine liner notes that explain what and why it sounds like it does. In the first composition, another conductor had Ticheli compose an appropriate short and feisty…
Behind the Scenes of Traveling Sonata’s Ravel Habenera
Viviana Guzman and Jérémy Jouvre take you behind the scenes of the recording of Traveling Sonata track Piéce en forme de habenera by Ravel: Watch on YouTube Order “Traveling Sonata” Securely from RR.com and enter the code “NEW-RR” to save 10%!