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Looking Back On: Psalms – Turtle Creek Chorale
In continuing our ongoing new series “Looking Back:” albums from Reference Recordings’ past, we are taking the opportunity to feature a 1999 release that is particularly appropriate for the current Holy Week holidays — Psalms, featuring the Turtle Creek Chorale. Why Psalms? In the continual search for repertoire appropriate to a large male chorus, our attention turned toward the multi-faceted texts of the Psalms. Over the past 3,000 years, much has been written about the…
Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia featured on The Huffington Post
Big thanks to reviewer Laurence Vittes for submitting his review of Delibes: Sylvia and Coppélia to The Huffington Post to be featured in their “Haiku Reviews” section! About the HuffPost Arts’ Haiku Reviews: HuffPost Arts’ Haiku Reviews is a monthly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be a sonnet and others might be more free-form. This month,…
Sylvia & Coppélia review offers praise for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra!
Noted San Francisco dance critic Heather Desaulniers offers great praise for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in her review of Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia on her Dance Commentary blog: “The first half of Reference Recording’s Delibes collection features music from “Sylvia”. Track four, Valse Lente, is a perfect testament to the broad range within the score. Dynamically, this four minute variation runs the entire spectrum, from the quietest of pianissimos to the most forceful of…
Great News for Dallas Wind Symphony Fans
Great news for Dallas area fans of the Dallas Wind Symphony! Sunday brings the Dallas market premier of the Wind & Rhythm Radio Show at 8pm Central Standard. Wind & Rhythm: The Gathering Place for People Who Love Band Music! “Wind and Rhythm is a one-hour weekly broadcast devoted to the music of Wind Bands hosted by Doug Brown. The show features Wind Symphonies, Wind Ensembles, Wind Orchestras, Concert Bands, Symphonic Bands, and Brass Bands…
WCLV Features Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
We’re a little late finding this out, but we wanted to thank WCLV (northeast Ohio’s classical radio station since 1962) 104.9 Classcial FM for choosing our new release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia as one of their “Choice CDs of the Day” during the month of March! WCLV featured the new recording on March 7th, 16th, and 27th, and had this to say: How wonderful to have new recordings of this music and by an American…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia
Audiophile Audition has a fantastic new review of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s new release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia, calling it “thrilling.” “Reference Recordings’ Keith O. Johnson takes a crack at the colorful, sentimental and daring music, perfect for Johnny Depp as Captain Hook…The results are thrilling: they capture the space (Skywalker Sound) so naturally and comfortably that the explosion of kettle drums in the high camp “huntresses” scene can be heard to the lowest depths of…
Looking back on Chihara: The Tempest
Earlier in the month, RR released a new recording of the ballet music of Delibes, featuring suites from the ballet’s Sylvia and Coppélia. But this was not the first release of ballet music from Reference Recordings. In fact, one of RR’s first releases featured the Paul Seiko Chihara’s score of The Tempest, which was premiered by the San Francisco Ballet in 1980 (the orchestra which appears on the new Sylvia/Coppélia release!), and recorded by The…
Going Thru Vinyl Mike Garson Interview Finale
We’ve come to the finale in our Going Thru Vinyl interview series with Mike Garson. We want to thank the blog for the wonderful content and for letting us share it with you here! Listen to (part 4 of 4) – Mike Garson Sticks His Neck Out To Protect Our Country Listen to parts one, two, and three! MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie.…
Going Thru Vinyl Mike Garson Interview Part Three!
We’re up to Part Three of Going Thru Vinyl’s Interview/Concert with Mike Garson! (Listen to parts one and two) Listen here! Follow along with this podcast series on Going Thru Vinyl! MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie. Beginning in 1972, super-versatile pianist Mike Garson performed, toured internationally and recorded with one of the most creative figures in popular music, David Bowie. Having played the…
RR Radio – Sylvia/Coppelia Sampler Pack
Still don’t have the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia? Well now you can get the ultimate preview via the new RR Radio Sampler Pack: DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet OrchestraExtended Suites From the Ballets RR-125HDCD “… what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also…
Doug MacLeod Interviewed on WCSB’s Steve’s Folk
Doug MacLeod recently went on the show Steve’s Folk hosted by Steve Traina on WCSB 89.3 FM — Cleveland. Watch the wonderful 20-minute interview full of music right here: BRAND NEW EYES with Blues Master Doug MacLeod FR-703 MacLeod has been a beacon of unquestionably honest roots-music since the 1970s. On Brand New Eyes, he presents 11 original songs. He is the rare artist who writes and sings songs that are based on his own…
Positive Feedback reviews Sylvia & Coppelia
New release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia (released 3/13) gets some positive feedback from Positive Feedback! “The beautifully full and rich or ripe Keith Johnson recording will please most music lovers with not even a hint of harshness or distortion to be heard…there will be no complaints with that impressive and clearly solid deep bass response. Orchestral performance is quite excellent…my recommendation is for all, including newcomers to classical music.” —Karl Lozier, Positive Feedback Read the full review…
New Release – Delibes: Sylvia/Coppelia
DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet OrchestraExtended Suites From the Ballets RR-125HDCD “… what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also present Delibes’ SYLVIA, a romance filled with sighs of longing and the thrill of infatuation. Set in antiquity, the ballet literally places love on a pedestal…
Classical Music Sentinel Review Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia
“Wow” and “Thanks!” is all we can say about this review from ClassicalMusicSentinel.com: “Now for this type of music to work removed from the stage, the level of playing and the quality of the recorded sound have to bring it to life. And that’s exactly what we get here in this fabulous new recording captured at the George Lucas Skywalker Sound Studios by Reference Recordings, a label known for using cutting edge technology to obtain…
Part Two of Going Thru Vinyl’s Interview with Mike Garson
Last week we pointed you to GoingThruVinyl.com for their new podcast featuring Mike Garson, and we’re happy to share the second part of that lengthy interview and concert. Quite the revealing interview for Bowie fans in particular! Listen to Part Two of Going Thru Vinyl’s Mike Garson Interview! Follow along with this podcast series on Going Thru Vinyl! MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie.…