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Happy Holidays from Reference Recordings
We wanted to take some time and wish all of our fans Happy Holidays! Make sure and take advantage of our annual Holiday Sale!
Featuring Keith O. Johnson
We can’t believe we haven’t shared this with you before, but it came up again in a recent feed, so we weren’t going to miss the opportunity this time! This is a feature on our very own “Prof” Keith O. Johnson on UltraAudio.com Prof. Keith O. Johnson Gives Digital a Soul Who is KOJ? Most of us lesser mortals struggle through life, clinging tenaciously to the base of Jim Carroll’s proverbial pyramid, hoping to fashion…
Need Christmas Ideas? – RR Samplers!
Want to get a great gift for the up and coming audiophiles on your list? How about our Samplers and Test albums? Purchase these samplers from the RR website and receive 20% off everything you buy during our Holiday Sale! TEST DISC XLO/ REFERENCE RECORDINGS TEST & BURN-IN CD“The Absolute Sound Super Disc List” This is THE step-by-step guide to setting up and fine-tuning your audio or home theatre system. Roger Skoff of XLO Electric…
What Others are saying about Britten’s Orchestra
Check out this great review from someone on Amazon.com! We’re only posting a short excerpt so that you can read it on Amazon where this person wrote it. Amazon ReviewDan Free Again, as in the first volume from RR, the sound is demonstration quality so far as capturing music goes. Each section of the orchestra really sounds like itself; and just enough hall resonance is mixed into the picture that one gets a very real…
Britten’s Orchestra Goes Global!
Our recent release Britten’s Orchestra featuring Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony is getting great reviews across the country, but today we also got a short review internationally! Check out the quick feature in the Yorkshire Post Album Reviews! And don’t forget we are still having a 20% off everything sale at ReferenceRecordings.com
Britten’s Orchestra Review – SF Classical Voice
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from the San Francisco Classical Voice. The review is one of their suggested Christmas items: Britten’s Orchestra; Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern (Reference Recordings RR-120) Britten’s OrchestraThe latest release from the Bay Area–based, audiophile label Reference Recordings is one of the finer introductions available to Benjamin Britten’s orchestral works. If there’s anything that the composer’s famous Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra demands, it’s…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – Audiophile Audition
Check out this review from Audiophile Audition Magazine! “Britten’s Orchestra” = BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; Sinfonia da requiem; Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from “Peter Grimes” – Kansas City Symphony/Michael Stern – Reference Recordings HDCD RR-120, 60:46 [Distr. by Allegro] *****: There are quite a few competing versions of these important Britten works, especially of the first and last, but the Kansas City Symphony has grown to a stature that…
Holiday SALE
HOLIDAY SALE! It’s an RR tradition to have a special SALE in December — STARTING NOW!Until NOON on Monday, January 4, 2010 all orders will be given a discount of 20% off regular prices — new releases included! THE MORE YOU ORDER – THE MORE YOU SAVE! Two new HRx Titles:Announcing HR-120, Britten’s Orchestra (it is exciting to have the HRx and the CD released almost simultaneously!) and HR-68, Mozart Concertos #21 & #24. These…
Joel Fan Concert Review – Washington Post
Joel Fan Washington Post Review In performance: Joel FanWeb-only review: Fan gives fantastic close to National Gallery’s American Music Festivalby Joe Banno Pianist Joel Fan (a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble) played a terrific lunchtime recital at the National Gallery on Wednesday of works by American composers who have embraced both the romantic past and a more dissonant present. Elliott Carter’s seminal 1945 Piano Sonata may have ranked as the program’s most significant…
New HRx Releases!
Greetings Audiophiles, we are pleased to announce that the recent release Britten’s Orchestra is available as an HRx disc in time for the holidays! It’s the perfect gift for the audiophile on your list. We also have another HRx that we are releasing &mdash Eugene Istomin (piano) with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart Concertos Nos. 21 and 24! Click HERE to purchase! Here are the details: EUGENE ISTOMIN, pianoA legendary pianist!…
T-Shirt Contest on Facebook!
Reference Recordings is hosting a T-Shirt contest on Facebook! Here are the instructions: 1. Go to http://facebook.com/referencerecordings2. Make sure you are a “Fan”3. Answer this question: “What well-known music critic wrote the booklet notes for Reference Recordings’ new release Britten’s Orchestra?4. Leave your answer on Facebook along with your size preference (options M,L,XL) and your color preference (black or grey). The black mock-up. Showing the front, the back is blank The grey mock-up. Showing the…
Britten’s Orchestra Review
Here is another rave review of Britten’s Orchestra by Puggingham Palace blogger Don Clark. Kansas City Symphony: Britten’s Orchestra OK I admit I was worried over nothing. The Kansas City Symphony and Music Director Michael Stern have been involved in 3 recordings since Stern’s arrival here in 2005. The first ones were for Naxos and compositions by the heretofore unknown (at least in the USA) Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin. The second was a recording of…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – Audiophilia
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from Anthony Kershaw at Audiohilia: the Online Journal for the Serious Audiophile: Britten’s Orchestra — Stern/Kansas City Symphony/Reference Recordingsby Anthony Kershaw Its fourth music director, Michael Stern (son of violinist, Issac), has secured the recording services of Reference Recordings and the amazing recording engineer, Prof. Keith Johnson. Johnson’s recordings with Reference are legendary. Audiophiles know and love them, the mainstream should follow suit. The…
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from Reference Recordings! Forget Black Friday, just go to http://referencerecordings.com