Archive for Grammy Nominations
2022 GRAMMY® Nominations!
Reference Recordings is excited to announce multiple nominations for the 2022 GRAMMY® Awards! Best Orchestral Performance Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Manfred Honeck, conductor (Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Best Engineered Album, Classical Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck, Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Congratulations to all involved in this double-nominated album!!! Producer of the Year, Classical David Frost Congratulations to producer David…
Carlisle Floyd: Prince of Players Receives Two 2021 GRAMMY® Nominations
The 2021 GRAMMY® Award Nominations were announced today and Reference Recordings releases appeared on four nominations! 2021 GRAMMY® Nominations for RR releases: Best Opera Recording Carlisle Floyd: Prince Of Players — William Boggs, conductor; Keith Phares & Kate Royal; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus) Best Contemporary Classical Composition Carlisle Floyd: Prince Of Players — Carlisle Floyd, composer (William Boggs, Kate Royal, Keith Phares, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) Producer of the Year, Classical…
Announcing Eleven 2020 GRAMMY® Nominations!
Reference Recordings is excited to announce eleven nominations across eight categories for the 2020 GRAMMY® Awards! The Orchestral Organ 2020 GRAMMY® Award Nominee: Best Immersive Audio Album Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio engineer; Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio mastering engineer; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin, immersive audio producers (Jan Kraybill) Best Classical Instrumental Solo Jan Kraybill Producer of the Year, Classical Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 2020 GRAMMY® Award Nominee:…
FIVE 2019 GRAMMY Nominations!
Reference Recordings is excited to announce five GRAMMY® Nominations for the 2019 GRAMMY® Awards! John Williams At The Movies Best Engineered, Classical & Best Classical Compendium 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…
Pacifica Tribune Features Reference GRAMMY® Nominations
The Pacifica Tribune highlights our GRAMMY nominations: Often referenced as “the best seat in the house,” Reference Recordings (RR) is an independent classical, blues and jazz audiophile record label located in Pacifica’s Crespi Business Center. On January 28, 2018, members of the RR team will join other Grammy nominees at the 60th Grammy Awards airing live from New York City. RR is the recipient of four Grammy nominations – two records, two nominations each. “RR-139…
FOUR 2018 GRAMMY Nominations!
The Recording Academy announced their 60th GRAMMY® Award Nominations this morning, and Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony‘s Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio and Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony‘s recording of Adam Schoenberg’s Orchestral Music have both received multiple nominations! Best Engineered Album, Classical Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio – Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies – Keith O. Johnson…
GRAMMY Award Nomination Congratulations!
Producer Of The Year, Classical Nominees Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin (Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands) Blanton Alspaugh (Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights)! Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin Congratulations to RR collaborators Marina A. Ledin and Victor Ledin. With multiple GRAMMY® Award nominations, the Ledins have produced and edited several of Reference Recordings’ recent releases, and will contintue in that capacity for the future. Following their nomination for last year’s GRAMMY® Awards with a portfolio of three…
RR at San Francisco GRAMMY Nominee Party
Last week Sean Royce Martin and Keith O. Johnson represented Reference Recordings at the San Francisco Recording Academy Chapter’s GRAMMY® Nominee Celebration! Find out more about the celebration and event on GrammyPro.com!
SEVEN 2015 GRAMMY Nominations Announced!
The 58th GRAMMY Award Nominations Have Been Announced! Best Engineered Classical Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson, mastering engineer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) Producer of the Year, Classical Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin Dances For Piano & Orchestra (Joel Fan, Christophe Chagnard & Northwest Sinfonietta) • Tempo Do Brasil (Marc Regnier) • Woman At The New Piano (Nadia Shpachenko) Best Orchestral Performance Bruckner:…
Tune in the GRAMMY Awards This Sunday!
Don’t forget that the 2015 GRAMMY Awards are this Sunday and the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck Dvořák & Janáček SACD is nominated for the Best Orchestral Performance GRAMMY! Below, stream tracks from the GRAMMY-nominated release as well as the new Bruckner album (coming next week) and the first in our Pittsburgh Live! Series, Strauss:
Dvořák & Janáček Nominated for 2015 GRAMMY Award!
Extra! Extra! 2015 GRAMMY Awards Best Orchestral Performance Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck — Dvořák & Janáček! See the list of Nominees at www.grammy.com! Dvořák • Janáček Manfred Honeck Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraFR-710 SACD Antonin Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 Leoš Janáček Symphonic Suite from “Jenůfa”(Conceptualized by Manfred Honeck, realized by Tomáš Ille) Thrilling Live Performances From The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, In Brilliant Audiophile Sound! This release is the second in the…
RR Producers Nominated for Grammy Awards!
Two of the five producers nominated for the 56th Annual Grammy Award for Producer Of The Year, Classical featured Reference Recordings releases! Victor Ledin and Marina Ledin: Bizet: Symphony In C; Jeux D’Enfants; Variations Chromatiques (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra) Traveling Sonata – European Music For Flute & Guitar (Viviana Guzmán & Jérémy Jouve) Voyages (Conrad Tao) Zia (Del Sol String Quartet) David Frost: Andres: Home Stretch (Timo Andres, Andrew Cyr & Metropolis…
RR Celebrated The Grammy Awards by Looking Back at past Grammys!
Sunday was the Grammy Awards Ceremony, and while there weren’t any RR releases in the running this year, we thought it would be fun to highlight some of our past winners and nominees! AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS Grammy Award ! (presented February 2011) Reference Recordings is proud to report that our own “Prof.” KEITH O. JOHNSON and DAVID FROST received a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album! BTW: This is RR’s first release in Surround Sound. RR-120…
KC Metropolis interviews Keith Johnson and David Frost
A fantastic interview came out Tuesday in the KC Metropolis Journal, featuring our Britten’s Orchestra recording with the Kansas City Symphony. Today we want to share a little of that with you, and then encourage you to visit kcmetropolis.org to read the rest. It is well worth your time! From KCMetropolis.org:INTERVIEW: Achieving that Grammy SoundBy David Peironnet David Peironnet: “Dynamic range in its extreme” is a quote from your press release accompanying the Kansas City…
“Prof” Johnson Receives the L.A. & Orange County Audio Society Founder’s Award
Reference Recordings’ “Prof” Keith O. Johnson will receive the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society’s 2010 Founder’s Award on Saturday, December 18th! From the L.A./OC Audio Society: It is with great pleasure and admiration that the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, America’s largest audio society with over 600 members, announces the winner of the Founder’s Award for 2010, the Society’s highest honor, to Keith O. Johnson. As…