The Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s 180-gram double-LP of John Williams at the Movies gets a 4 & 5-star rating from The Audio Beat: “Since 1976, with the release of Guitar and… featuring guitarist Bunyan Webb in recital accompanied by flute and viola, Reference Recordings has offered the music-loving audiophile an elegant buffet of exceptional recordings of a wide-ranging selection of music. … Now, 43 years after that first release, comes this deluxe two-LP reissue of a…
2019 Best Engineered, Classical GRAMMY® Nominee2019 Best Classical Compendium GRAMMY® Nominee “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding…
All John Mackey and All Spectacular! Brilliant performances by THE DALLAS WINDS have been captured in superb audiophile sound by Reference Recordings’ award-winning engineering team: Keith O. Johnson and Sean Martin. ASPHALT COCKTAIL was crowd-funded by fans of Mackey and of the Dallas Winds. Their support made this unique, all-John Mackey release possible. The recording was made in Dallas Texas, in the Morton H. Meyerson Concert Center, one of the world’s greatest concert halls. Mackey is one of…
The Arts Desk‘s Graham Rickson’s Classical CD Weekly column features a new review for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording! “The Dallas Winds is a rarity in that it’s a professional wind band, 50 woodwind, brass and percussion players tackling ‘an eclectic blend ranging from marches and Broadway show tunes, to soundtracks and big band standards’. This is an unabashedly popular release, but that’s all the more reason to…
Classical CD Choice critic Barry Forshaw offers a new review for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams At The Movies recording: “Like the venerable composers who inspired him (such as Eric Wolfgang Korngold and Bernard Herrmann, who straddled the worlds of Hollywood and the concert hall), John Williams’ writing for strings is one of the glories of his matchless film music — which is what makes this lively and attractive set such…
Graham Williams and HRAudio.net give John Williams At The Movies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for performance and multi-channel sonics in a new review: “Each new release from the Reference Recordings label is anticipated with a tingle of excitement, promising not just an aural treat for audiophiles but also high musical values, and this latest sonic spectacular featuring the film music of John Williams is no exception. For decades Keith O Johnson, the doyen of recording engineers, and his…
A new review from Transcentury Communications’s family-focused review site, “InfoDad” for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording: “[John] Williams…is for his film pieces that he is best known – those, plus some of his TV work, such as the Olympic Fanfare and Theme that he wrote for the 1984 Summer Olympics and that opens a very fine, very upbeat new Reference Recordings SACD featuring the Dallas Winds under Jerry Junkin.…
WRTI Radio in Philadelphia names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin John Williams At The Movies recording their Album of the Week! “This latest album is a special collection: the performing ensemble is a virtuoso wind band that plays as though the music was written for them.… Its recordings on the Audiophile Reference Recordings label are stunning. Every nuance of the Dallas Winds’ playing can be heard with crystal clarity. … Beginning with his…
WCRB, Classical Radio Boston, names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin recording of John Williams At The Movies their CD of the Week! “Conductor Jerry Junkin is celebrating his 25th season with Dallas Winds, one of America’s most energized and revered ensembles. Add in one of the world’s greatest trumpeters, a superb engineering team, and the goose bumps that come with John Williams’s music, and you’ve got one highly charged new CD – and…
Jean-Yves Duperron of Classical Music Sentinel reviews the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams At The Movies recording: “Regardless of who you are, your age, where you live or what you do, at some point in your life you’ve had a close encounter (pun intended) with the music of John Williams. …it may not be “classical”, “symphonic” or “art” music, but rather written for “commercial” purposes as pointed out in the liner notes,…
Stereophile Magazine’s Jason Victor Serinus reviewed the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams at the Movies recording for a 4th of July feature: “For a major, decidedly American change of pace from our usual fare of Prokofiev, Debussy, Xenakis, Berg, and Beethoven (for starters), let’s lighten up with Reference Recordings’ latest hybrid SACD, John Williams at the Movies? Also available as a 176.4/24 download—the format in which it was recorded and which I…
Dallas Winds Jerry JunkinChristopher Martin, Trumpet Music to inspire the world for generations! “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected…
John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding music for films. He has written scores for over 100 films, and his massive list of awards includes 51 Academy Award nominations and…
MusicWeb International critic Dan Morgan reviews the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s July 6 release, John Williams At The Movies! “Scrolling through John Williams’s extensive worklist triggers an avalanche of movie memories… What better way to get start than with the fanfare and theme Williams wrote for the opening ceremony at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. There’s a broad, arresting sense of spectacle, so familiar from his epic movie scores, plus a dash of…
Reference Recordings congratulates Jerry Junkin on 25 years as the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Dallas Winds! Since 1990, Reference Recordings has partnered with The Dallas Winds (Dallas Wind Symphony) on 17 audiophile recordings (including 3 GRAMMY® nominees). On top of Jerry Junkin’s Dallas Winds recordings with Reference Recordings, he has also released two recordings conducting the University of Texas Wind Ensemble on RR. We are marking this exciting anniversary by offering all of…