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Manfred Honeck Joins New Classical Tracks to Talk Strauss and Beethoven
Manfred Honeck joined YourClassical‘s New Classical Tracks® program to talk about his new recording of Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 and Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 with the Pittsburgh Symphony. The recording is the featured CD of the week on New Classical Tracks, which means you have a chance to win the recording! “Because I was a member of the Vienna Philharmonic as a viola player, I could watch all of the best conductors in the…
Thinking About Bix on A Prairie Home Companion
Last Saturday legendary pianist, Dick Hyman was featured on American Public Media’s “A Prairie Home Companion” hosted by Garrison Keillor. And Dick Hyman didn’t just perform any old music off of our release “Thinking About Bix,” he performed the title track! So in case you missed it, we thought we would share it with you today! Click to Play “Thinking About Bix” by Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke on the May 9, 2010 broadcast of…
RR on American Public Media’s “Composers Datebook”
An older Reference Recordings release with the Minnesota Orchestra was featured on American Public Radio’s program “Composers Datebook.” Here is the audio with A Ring of Time by Dominick Argento (b. 1927) from the album Valentino Dances (performed by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Eiji Oue) in the background of the program. Here is the full transcript from the show: At the dawn of the 20th century Teddy Roosevelt was president and America was in…