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MusicWeb International Rave for Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights!
MusicWeb International offers an in-depth rave review for the Florentine Opera Company’s recording of Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights: “Floyd’s opera is both spectral and emotionally intense; there’s nothing of the musical about it. The writing has about it a florid brilliance entirely in keeping with the themes of love in vain, betrayal and striving for the unattainable. It is by no means a chamber opera and the emotions are played out on a grand scale…
Celebrate Emily Brontë’s 198th Birthday!
Join us in celebrating Emily Brontë’s 198th birthday on July 30th by entering a Wuthering Heights giveaway hosted by Naxos of America! The giveaway runs from today through August 1 at 11:59pm CST and winners receive a copy of the recording as well as the audiobook version of Wuthering Heights courtesy of Naxos Audiobooks! Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes ArkivMusic
Fiona Boyes and Lloyd Jones In Concert
Fiona Boyes and Lloyd Jones Together In Concert! Highway 99 Blues Club Sunday, August 14 – 7pmSeattle Washington Tickets and Information Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music SpotifyVote For Fiona in the Blues Blast Magazine Awards! Lloyd Jones: Doin’ What It Takes Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Pittsburgh Symphony LIVE from Berlin Now on YouTube!
The Pittsburgh Symphony with Music Director Manfred Honeck conducting plays Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony and No. 6 and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2 with Daniil Trifonov soloist. From the Philharmonie in Berlin June May 22 2016. Interviews include Manfred Honeck, Principal Contrabassoon James Rodgers, Trombone James Nova, Violinist Alison Fujito and President and CEO Melia Tourangeau with Jim Cunningham Artistic Director Jim Cunningham, host. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74…
Setting Up for The Dallas Winds!
While setting up for our latest Dallas Winds recording session this past weekend, we discussed a new “Audiophile Corner” for our blog/site. Let us know if there are things you’d like to see included in the “corner”!
Wuthering Heights Is Carlisle Floyd At His Prime
Planet Hugill celebrates Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights “on disc at last.” “This new recording from Reference Recordings finally brings Carlisle Floyd’s 1958 opera Wuthering Heights to disc. … Floyd’s music is intense and dramatic, in a form of continuous arioso as the libretto is more poetic prose than poetry, with individual speeches standing out aria-like, including the one which gave rise to the piece in the first place. … The recording was made at a…
Guitarra Reviews Fiona Boyes
Argentina’s Guitarra Magazine reviews Fiona Boyes Box & Dice: “Recently, the guitarist, singer-songwriter Fiona Boyes was nominated for USA 2016 Blues Music Awards, and Box & Dice won best blues album at The Victoria Age Music Awards. On this album, fans of country or acoustic blues find the guitar and hoarse voice of this Australian creating a healthy mix of traditional with contemporary.” —Guitarra Vote For Fiona in the Blues Blast Magazine Awards! Fiona Boyes:…
Macallè Blues Reviews Box & Dice
Italian blues outlet, Macallè Blues reviews Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice: “In recent years Australia has expressed some real blues talent…One of these talents is surely Fiona Boyes.… Box & Dice represents an instrumental experiment that, besides her usual guitars, let some handicraft cigar-box guitars (built by Shayne Soall from Oz Blues and Roots Music Store) step out front. Boyes plays those guitars using bottlenecks drawn by different small liqueur bottles. And, above all, she…
Fiona Boyes on the Black on Blues Podcast
Fiona Boyes is featured on the Black on Blues podcast! Listen Now: Your browser does not support the audio element. Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Pittsburgh Symphony Tchaikovsky/Dvořák “Once In A Lifetime”
“I want to suggest listening to what I believe to be a one in a lifetime audition: the newest record of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its music director, the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck.… However, more than the high technical quality, I was deeply moved by the artistic quality when performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. It is one of my favourite works, one I have listened to again and again performed by various orchestras. It…
Vote for Fiona Boyes!
Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify Fiona Boyes:
New Hybrid SACD Release — Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
NEW HYBRID SACD RELEASE! 5.1 Surround and Stereo SACD, Stereo CD with HDCD Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ” Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28La Muse Et Le Poère for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra, Op. 132 Kansas City Symphony Michael Stern RR-136SACDStreet Date: July 8, 2016 PRE-ORDER NOW! The 2015 release on compact disc garnered a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Classical Engineering. We now present this recording in brilliant…
Music for Independence Day Weekend!
Enjoy a playlist for your Independence Day Weekend via Spotify:
Classical CD Review Features Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony
“For Reference Recodings, there are SACDs of Strauss symphonic poems, and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 coupled with a suite from Janacek’s opera Jenufa. Now we have three more SACDS of live recordings all made in the fine acoustics of Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. All of these are superlative, virtuoso performances. The Beethoven symphonies are high energy throughout, with a rather frantic but exiting pace for the final two movements of Symphony No.…
Dawn To Dust “A Valuable Addition”
Classical Voice North America are fans of Andrew Norman and his new work Switch recorded by the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer on Dawn To Dust: “[Dawn To Dust] sets off into new territory with three commissioned pieces that the Utah Symphony performed and recorded last year.…Switch, by the omnipresent Andrew Norman, is the longest and most interesting piece here, virtually a percussion concerto for the nimble hands of Colin Currie, who is kept very…