Pre-Order the official Soundtrack CD for the newly released, highly touted video game THE BANNER SAGA! GRAMMY-nominated, composer Austin Wintory created an earthy, multi-layered orchestral score for the single player role-playing tactical game from Stoic Studios, currently available on PC and Mac. The soundtrack score features the Dallas Wind Symphony, recorded by GRAMMY-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson and the Reference Recordings team at the Meyerson Symphony Center,in Dallas, TX. In addition the score features a…
High praise for the upcoming Fresh! From Reference Recording CD release, The Banner Saga, featuring the Dallas Wind Symphony and music by composer Austin Wintory: “As I played The Banner Saga, I was swept away by its chilled tapestry of brass harmonies and meandering woodwind melodies. It was as if the musical score had been woven together of shimmering mithril, evoking both the bleakness of the frozen landscape and the stubbornness of the varl race.…
Your first “official” listen to the upcoming Fresh! From Reference Recordings CD, The Banner Saga, featuring the Dallas Wind Symphony and music by composer Austin Wintory:
Take a look behind the scenes of the Dallas Wind Symphony recording sessions for the Austin Wintory Banner Saga soundtrack:
The Dallas Morning News Pop Culture Blog has a fantastic new feature and interview on Austin Wintory’s The Banner Sanga soundtrack: “As a game, The Banner Saga is much more than its mechanics. Yes, the turn-based strategy gameplay is well-made and worth the price of admission, but much of the experience is anchored in its writing, its art and its music. That music was composed by an increasingly well-known name in video game soundtracks, Austin…
Not only are we celebrating the holiday season with our Holiday Sale, we’ve also got a new RR Radio track featuring music from the Dallas Wind Symphony’s Horns for the Holidays release! Enjoy! Purchase Horns for the Holidays along with any of the wonderful Dallas Wind Symphony releases and save 20% on your entire order! Click the image below and start saving!
Here’s a look at yesterday’s “The Banner Saga” recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony: Watch live video from awintory on TwitchTV Find out more about “The Banner Saga” in yesterday’s post.
Austin Wintory The Reference Recording team is in Dallas for another exciting Dallas Wind Symphony CD! Dallas Wind Symphony Records Composer Austin Wintory’s THE BANNER SAGA! Soundtrack Watch the Recording Session LIVE today (7/30) at 4:30pm (Central)! The Banner Saga: Factions Factions is the free multiplayer release of The Banner Saga, a role-playing, turn-based strategy game putting you in control of a clan of battle-hardened viking warriors. From the composer Austin Wintory: It takes place…
Three New HRx Releases now available on ReferenceRecordings.com: Playing With Fire Music by Frank Ticheli Combines the mighty Dallas Wind Symphony with enthusiastic playing by the seven-piece Jim Cullum Jazz Band! Order Today! Eglar: Enigma Variations Vaughan Williams – Greensleeves/The Wasps A new symphonic tour-de-force. This colorful, beloved English music has been captured by GRAMMY winning engineer Keith O. Johnson! Order Today! There’s A Time Doug MacLeod “Prof” Johnson’s first Blues for RR, recorded at…
John Crossett of The Audio Beat has a high-ranking review of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s newest release Playing With Fire: Music by Frank Ticheli: “It is a diverse collection of music that seems to have been written as much for the sheer enjoyment of the listener as to show off the exceptional range a wind band can have in its repertoire. From the powerful to the delicate, the music highlights what these 19 instruments and…
Five Full HRx Albums now available for download on HDtracks! Now Available as 176.4 kHz / 24-bit downloads: Elgar: Enigma Variations/Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Greensleeves – San Francisco Ballet Orchestra “The finale is extremely impressive, aided by state-of-the-art sonics that offer the finest integration of organ and orchestra.” – Classics Today “This new recording engineered by Keith Johnson is typical of the Professor’s natural sound, accorded transparency and depth.” – Audiophilia Conductor Michael Stern leads…
2013 is quickly approaching and we’re taking a look back through our 2012 releases! 2012 saw not one, but TWO new Dallas Wind Symphony releases! Playing With FireMusic by Frank TicheliThe Dallas Wind SymphonyConducted by Jerry JunkinFeaturing the Jim Cullum Jazz Band An all-American collaboration, The Dallas Wind Symphony and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band team up on this new sonic spectacular from Reference Recordings, PLAYING WITH FIRE! The five pieces presented here offer a…
Stereophile.com‘s Jason Victor Serinus has a wonderful review on Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays, and even includes an interview with Keith O. Johnson! “As you can well imagine, Johnson, who has something like nine Grammy nominations for Engineering and one Grammy Award for Best Surround Recording to his credit, takes full advantage of this opportunity to show what Reference Recordings can do. Even heard without the advantage of Johnson’s HDCD decoding, Horns…
The Audio Beat‘s John Crossett weighs in on new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays, and his end quote is about all the endorsement one should need: “This is a special recording on a number of different levels… the arrangements of these familiar tunes veer just far enough away from tradition to keep listeners engaged. You’ll always recognize the melody, but in an almost jazz-inspired way. Junkin and the Dallas group take this…
Wind & Rhythm will feature new Dallas Wind Symphony Christmas release Horns for the Holidays this weekend! Check out the preview: Episode 214: Santa’s Sousaphone It was July in Dallas when the Dallas Wind Symphony gathered to do a recording session. It was over a hundred degrees outside and inside the awesome Meyerson Symphony Hall everyone wore shorts and t shirts. The staff had put up Christmas decorations but at first it was hard to…