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Music For Independence Day – Marches I’ve Missed
Yesterday we began our “Music for Independence Day” series with Dick Hyman’s “Thinking About Bix.” Today, we continue the series with a recording of the Dallas Wind Symphony conducted by Frederick Fennell on the album “Marches I’ve Missed.” MARCHES I’VE MISSEDFrederick Fennel/Dallas Wind Symphony Essential Americana! The Godfather of Wind Bands conducts 18 great “footlifters” all new to the extensive Fennell discography, in sizzling performances by the Dallas Wind Symphony at its best! “Fennell catches…
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Throw a Fiesta!
To help our neighbors to the south commemorate this fun holiday, today we’re featuring our album “Fiesta!” Fiesta! features the conductor Howard Dunn and the Dallas Wind Symphony. FIESTA!South-of-the-border music for band by Gould, Reed, Williams, Nixon and Perkins. “Exceptional in dynamic range, transient response, overall clarity, and–most of all–realistic differentiation of instrumental timbres.”—Fanfare Celebrate Cinco de Mayo by purchasing Fiesta! Track listing: La Fiesta Mexicana: Prelude and Aztec Dance La Fiesta Mexicana: Mass La…
Composers Datebook – Bach and Ron Nelson
On American Public Media’s program “Composers Datebook”, Ron Nelson’s “Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)” was featured in celebration of Sunday being Bach’s birthday! The recording used during the program was Holidays and Epiphanies featuring the Dallas Wind Symphony. Click Play to listen to Composers Datebook Featuring Ron Nelson’s Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) Here is the written transcript from the show: One of the most serious — and daunting — of musical forms is the passacaglia, in…
President’s Day
It’s Monday, February 15th, and we are celebrating President’s Day here at Reference Recordings! How does one celebrate President’s Day? Marches and parades, of course! So, to help you celebrate, we’re presenting the perfect album for the occasion – Marches I’ve Missed conducted by Frederick Fennell! MARCHES I’VE MISSEDFrederick Fennell / Dallas Wind SymphonyRR-85 HDCD “Fennell catches cool dance rhythms, delicate neatness, and British propriety very nicely. The Dallas Wind Symphony and the engineering are…
A Great Find – Indiana Public Radio Grainger Podcast
Today we came across something we just had to share. It’s a podcast from the Indiana Public Radio Station (WFIU) from almost a year ago highlighting the then recent release “Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger.” So, we thought we would share the WFIU Classical Music Podcast featuring our recordings and give you the link to the rest of their podcasts. Click “play” to listen to WFIU’s presentation of “Lincolnshire Posy: Music…
Acoustic Sounds, Inc. Top Sellers List
Okay, so just to brag a little bit. We found out that on the Acoustic Sounds, Inc. website, they have all kinds of Top Sellers Lists. Well, we took a look at the Top 50 list for HDCD sales in the last 30 days just for fun, and found that 32 of the Top 50 HDCDs were all Reference Recordings Releases! And more importantly we are #1 & #2!!!!! Interestingly enough, the #1 selling HDCD…
Raving Grainger Review
We have to interrupt our discussion about the upcoming Britten album to share this fantastic review of the Dallas Wind Symphony album Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger the review is because the album was featured as “Recording of the Month” on MusicWeb! Very Exciting, and we especially love you the review begins! Without further ado, here is the review: MusicWeb – Recording of the MonthBy Benn Martin This is more than…
Britten’s Orchestra Album Art
Hey Fans, today we thought we would share the Britten’s Orchestra album art with you! Also, while you are going through your various social networks this weekend, please remember to join our Facebook Page and follow us on Twitter! But, also check out both the Kansas City Symphony on Facebook and Twitter, and the Dallas Wind Symphony Page on Facebook! Have a great weekend.
Keeping Up With Our Artists – Dallas Wind Symphony
For those fans of the Dallas Wind Symphony albums on Reference Recordings, we wanted to give you a heads up on a DWS concert! If you are in the Dallas area tonight, you need to get over to the beautiful and amazing Meyerson Center tonight at 8pm for the concert “Snake in the Garden.” Tuesday, October 13, 2009 — 8:00pmDeborah Ungaro Fabian, clarinet Alfred Reed — A Jubilant OverturePaul Richards — Snake in the GardenPaul…
Concerts
Well today we wanted to give our artists a plug and let you know of some upcoming concerts in case you are in the areas where they will be! First the Dallas Wind Symphony Just finished a major performance earlier this week of Carmina Burana, Ron Nelson’s Savannah River Holiday Overture, Jonathan Newman’s As the scent of spring rain…, and Nehlybel’s Trittico (which is an RR release)! The DWS has their next performance on Tuesday,…
Headlines around the world
The Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler that was released in July has been getting praise around the world. The title got a great review of it’s sound quality, and how to use the CD to make sure your speakers are right by the most famous reviewer in Taiwan, Jack Liu, the founder of AudioArt Magazine. His review appeared within their Audio Forum. We are including the review here, but you will notice that it is in…
Reference Recordings News!
Today we would just like to give some news on what is going on at Reference Recordings. First and foremost, our End of Summer SALE is still going on! So, if you wanted to expand your libraries with some HRx recordings, or HDCD recordings, or check out our two new SACD releases, now is the time! Or if there have been some recordings you had been thinking about getting, now is when you should load…
One more DWS video
Here is another video of behind-the-scenes footage from the Lincolnshire Posy recording sessions! Remember there is still a contest going on Twitter and we have yet to have a winner. We also put up some hints to make it easier. Here is the video:
Dallas Wind Symphony Recordings Video
Here is another video from the Dallas Wind Symphony recording sessions. We apologize for the time it took to get it uploaded, and apologize for the brief release of this video in a super low-quality. For a chance to win this album follow us on Twitter and participate in our Trivia Contest! Here it is: Remember to visit our YouTube Channel!
Twitter Contest
We are doing a Twitter-only contest starting today. This is going to be the one posting that will include all the information on this contest in one place. If you want to find out the information directly on Twitter, do a “Twitter-search” for #ReferenceRecordings. Also, please visit Twitter.com/RefRecordings to participate. The contest will work as follows: The first three people to answer the question: “Can you name the THREE Direct-To-CD titles RR has released?” will…