New Dallas Wind Symphony recording Horns for the Holidays now available during our End of Summer Sale (street date for release is 9/11)! Get in the holiday spirit early with these tracks by the Dallas Wind Symphony: Wasson: Festival Fanfare Anderson: Sleigh Ride Bach-Reed: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Lovrien: Minor Alterations Kent-Shaw: I’ll Be Home For Christmas Tormè-Wells-Biondi: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) Martin-Mills: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Anderson: A Christmas Festival…
ANNUAL END OF SUMMER SALE Order 2 or more items and receive a 20% DiscountThe More You Order The More You Save! Sale ends Monday September 24th at 12NOON PST Visit ReferenceRecordings.com and start saving today! SPECIAL PRE-RELEASE SALE! Horns for the HolidaysJerry JunkinDallas Wind Symphony An outstanding new release from America’s premier professional wind band! The Dallas Wind Symphony has a worldwide legion of followers and this is their first recording of holiday music.…
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day Sunday, August 26th is Women’s Equality Day which marks the anniversary of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote (click here for more information). Reference Recordings was started in 1976 by one man, founder Tam Henderson, who produced almost all its releases until very recently. He quickly collected genius recording engineer Keith O. Johnson, and the magic blossomed. But women took on…
Dallas Wind Symphony fans, your wait is almost over! We are just over one month from the new Dallas Wind Symphony recording of the music of Frank Ticheli. As a reminder/teaser, here’s a look behind the scenes of that recording session! And even more exciting is that we are just days away from our Annual End of Summer Sale, and as a special addition we are including RR-126 Horns for the Holidays (featuring the Dallas…
In a wonderful preview of Lloyd Jones‘ upcoming San Juan Islands Fair performance, the San Juan Journal shares a wonderful story of Lloyd Jones making an impact all halfway across the world in Denmark: “When a band halfway around the world listens to all your music, learns all your songs, and then prepares itself just for you, the artist, to drop by, plug in and let loose on a foreign audience, one might think you’ve…
Exotic Dances from the Opera is already becoming a true “reference” recording! Check out this quick line from Stereophile‘s California Audio Show report: “With Focal Scala Utopias elevated on stands to decouple them from the floor and make their immediacy available to a room filled with audiophiles, a tape of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers from Reference Recordings’ Exotic Dances at the Opera sounded right on.” Make sure to get your copy of this recording…
RM-1505 Oue/MNO Exotic Dances from the Opera Single 33 1/3 rpm LP, half speed mastered, 200-gram disc from Quality Record Pressings, in gatefold jacket You will enjoy amazing sound on this deluxe half-speed mastered LP of favorites and rarities. This collection of exceptional performances from the Minnesota Orchestra has been a perennial favorite and best seller on CD, SACD and HRx, and NOW can be heard on LP! This recording is one of legendary engineer…
As we approach Tuesday’s official release of our Exotic Dances from the Opera LP, we wanted to explore the reasoning behind focusing on dances within opera. Dance and Opera have an incredibly intertwined history and relationship, so much so that in periods throughout history it was an expectation to have a sections of ballet take up significant portions of an opera. To explore this relationship, and the reasoning behind the unique programming, take a look…
New Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes by blues legend Lloyd Jones is turning up everywhere! This week the Roots Music Report Blues Chart that tells us how often something is played on radio stations across the country, has Doin’ What It Takes at #37! But it’s not just your over-the-air radio stations that are excited about this new recording, Online radio stations and podcasters are getting in on the action as…
John Sunier of Audiophile Audition takes a look at the HRx version of the Malcolm Arnold: Overtures recording, and compares it to other formats we’ve released in the past. “This may be the current No. 1 audiophile classical album today, in a similar place as were the Sheffield albums of Wagner and Prokofiev back in direct-to-disc days… “This was a different sort of comparison than I’ve ever done before: the standard CD vs. the vinyl…
The Cascade Blues Association has a nice feature on Lloyd Jones and his new Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes! “Doin’ What It Takes is the credo by which Portland bluesman Lloyd Jones has been following throughout his career… “Lloyd Jones is referred to as “The Groove Merchant.” It is a fitting title because he is without question one of the funkiest, soulful artists ever to strap on a Fender. So much…
This weekend at the Crowne Plaza in San Francisco, Tam Henderson and Marcia Martin will be guest panelists at the California Audio Show. They will join panelists Bruce Brisson, Tim Brisson, Cookie Morenco, Paule Stubblebine, and Tony Weber on the MIT Cables Discussion Panel to talk about “Listening to the Science of Audio” and “The Sonic Benefits of High Resolution Audio.” If you’re in the area, make sure to swing by www.caaudioshow.com to register for…
Blues Revue: The World’s Blues Magazine rates Lloyd Jones’ Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes a 9/10 and calls it a “Tasteful and Refreshing” recording. Read an excerpt here and find the full review on www.BluesRevue.com! “I was turned on to this tasty disc back in January on Delbert McClinton‘s cruise by Delbert’s longtime sax player Don Wise, and have been patiently waiting for this one to come out. Now that I…
New RR Radio Track in celebration of our newest Reference Mastercuts LP Release — Exotic Dances from the Opera! RR Radio via SoundCloud: Pre-Order Your Exotic Dances from the Opera LP Today! Also available as RR-71HDCD and HR-71 (HRx) and RR-71SACD
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