Order Now Minnesota Public Radio’s Performance Today is highlighting Dvořák and featuring his Polonaise from Rusalka from our Minnesota Orchestra recording of Exotic Dances from the Opera! Listen Now Exotic Dances from the Opera Minnesota Orchestra and Eiji Oue Favorites and rarities, including Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale, Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils, and Rabaud: Dances from Marouf. Available for purchase as HDCD, SACD, LP, and Hi-Res Downloads
Exotic Dances from the Opera is already becoming a true “reference” recording! Check out this quick line from Stereophile‘s California Audio Show report: “With Focal Scala Utopias elevated on stands to decouple them from the floor and make their immediacy available to a room filled with audiophiles, a tape of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers from Reference Recordings’ Exotic Dances at the Opera sounded right on.” Make sure to get your copy of this recording…
RM-1505 Oue/MNO Exotic Dances from the Opera Single 33 1/3 rpm LP, half speed mastered, 200-gram disc from Quality Record Pressings, in gatefold jacket You will enjoy amazing sound on this deluxe half-speed mastered LP of favorites and rarities. This collection of exceptional performances from the Minnesota Orchestra has been a perennial favorite and best seller on CD, SACD and HRx, and NOW can be heard on LP! This recording is one of legendary engineer…
As we approach Tuesday’s official release of our Exotic Dances from the Opera LP, we wanted to explore the reasoning behind focusing on dances within opera. Dance and Opera have an incredibly intertwined history and relationship, so much so that in periods throughout history it was an expectation to have a sections of ballet take up significant portions of an opera. To explore this relationship, and the reasoning behind the unique programming, take a look…
New RR Radio Track in celebration of our newest Reference Mastercuts LP Release — Exotic Dances from the Opera! RR Radio via SoundCloud: Pre-Order Your Exotic Dances from the Opera LP Today! Also available as RR-71HDCD and HR-71 (HRx) and RR-71SACD
With the new Exotic Dances from the Opera Reference Mastercuts LP available for pre-order, we’re taking a look at what some folks had to say about the original HDCD release: “…a sonic spectacular. The orchestra sounds full, natural, warm, and nicely spread out over the soundstage. There is none of the glare that still seems to affect many orchestral digital recordings; even the highest register of the violins sounds smooth and musical. Climaxes are never…
New Reference Mastercuts release Exotic Dances from the Opera available for pre-order on ReferenceRecordings.com! RM-1505 Oue/MNO Exotic Dances from the Opera Single 331/3 rpm LP, half speed mastered, 200-gram disc from Quality Record Pressings, in gatefold jacket You will enjoy amazing sound on this deluxe half-speed mastered LP of favorites and rarities. This collection of exceptional performances from the Minnesota Orchestra has been a perennial favorite and best seller on CD, SACD and HRx, and…
Sometimes you stumble across things that simply make your day, and today we stumbled across a wonderful article of reviews in the UK’s “Tottenham Journal“. In the article, the author, Barry Forshaw, gives his “pick of the latest classical CD releases.” When looking through, we were delighted to find this little bit about our Exotic Dances from the Opera SACD: From the Tottenham JournalBy Barry Forshaw: “EXOTIC DANCES FROM THE OPERA Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue/Reference Recordings…
Since we have been involved in some discussions about our dive into the SACD realm, we thought we would share a couple of reviews of our first two SACDs from Audiophile Audition. “Tutti!” Orchestral Sampler from Reference Recordings – stereo-only SACD RR-906SACD, 71:33 [Distr. in U.S. by Allegro] *****: Tutti! is a packed program of spectacular orchestral demo selections, and all of them are complete movements or sections – no fading out anywhere here as…
We wanted to let our readers know that we have provided some complimentary HRx downloads to Computer Audiophile, and they are available on their website! You will have to go to the Computer Audiophile website to download them. The downloads are the Gottschalk: Suis Moi! –Caprice from Joel Fan’s newest release West of the Sun, and Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa: Hopak from the Minnesota Orchestra album Exotic Dances from the Opera. Here is the information from the…