Archive for Jan Kraybill
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:…
Textura Reviews Jan Kraybill’s The Orchestral Organ
Textura Magazine reviews Jan Kraybill’s The Orchestral Organ recording in their July 2019 issue: “On The Orchestral Organ, Dr. Jan Kraybill performs organ transcriptions of material by Sibelius, Holst, Wagner, Verdi, Barber, and others, and while many of the works are familiar, they assume vivid new life when presented in this organ-only context. … Representative of the album are the treatments of Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Sibelius’s Finlandia; being so well-known, they offer case studies for how effectively…
MusicWeb Reviews Jan Kraybill’s Orchestral Organ
MusicWeb International‘s Dan Morgan, who found Jan Kraybill’s Organ Polychrome “pure magic”, jumped at the chance to hear the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ again in The Orchestral Organ: “The Orchestral Organ builds on…broad, well-established foundations. And, in the best tradition, this programme is clearly designed to intrigue, entertain and, quite possibly, educate. There are some familiar transcriptions among the first recordings and a world premiere. … Kraybill [is] as beguiling as one could wish. ……
Jan Kraybill is a Treasure
The Kansas City Star hails organist Jan Kraybill as “a local treasure” while reviewing her new recording, The Orchestral Organ: “The Orchestral Organ is a stunner. Imagine some of classical music’s most powerful orchestral works performed on Helzberg Hall’s Casavant organ. If you think that sounds good on paper, wait until you actually hear the recording. Kraybill, who is also the conservator of the Casavant organ, is a one-woman orchestra whose renditions of Wagner, Tchaikovsky,…
Audiophile Audition Reviews the Thrilling Orchestral Organ Recording from Jan Kraybill
“Organist Jan Kraybill is up to the task of performing these transcriptions. She is a musical leader, performer, educator, organ consultant, and enthusiastic advocate for the power of music to change lives for the better… I listened to the 5.1 rendering of these tracks and the sound was thrilling. The organ is big and brawny, the performances are precise and committed, and Reference Recording has done their usual audiophile magic. The lower pipes of the…
Positive Feedback’s David Robinson: You Must Not Miss Jan Kraybill’s “The Orchestral Organ”
Positive Feedback‘s David W. Robinson offers a rare album review for Jan Kraybill’s new recording, The Orchestral Organ: “While I don’t do music reviews on a regular basis, there are times when a particular album really strikes me, and I have to say something…usually brief, but definite. This is one of those times. … This is a wonderful collection of music. I was quite pleased by all of them, but can give a special tip…
Now Available: The Orchestral Organ
Sonic Splendor! Amazing organ performances give new dimensions to beloved orchestral favorites. In the 19th and early 20th century, organists of exceptional artistic skill developed organ transcriptions of orchestral music into a true art form. Each of the works on this disc is spectacular in its original form. To create The Orchestral Organ, we have chosen works of many different composers, adapted into organ transcriptions of the highest artistic order. These transcriptions are not intended for…
Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 Now A Reference Mastercuts LP
GRAMMY® Nominated Kansas City Symphony recording Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” is now available as a Reference Mastercuts LP! First LP mastering of this work at 45 rpm! Details RM-1514 Single 45 rpm LP 180 Gram pressing from QRP in Deluxe Gatefold Jacket Michael Stern, conductorKansas City SymphonyJan Kraybill, organProducer: David FrostRecording Engineer: Keith O. JohnsonRecorded by: Sean Royce Martin, Half-Speed LP Mastering: Paul Stubblebine Composed at his artistic peak, Camille Saint-Saëns said of his…
Topping the Charts!
Two releases are topping charts to end 2015 on a high note! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Box & Dice comes in at #1 on the Roots Music Reports Top Australia Albums Chart for the week of December 28, 2015! Get Box & Dice Today: Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Kansas City Symphony — Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” The Kansas City Symphony and Jan Kraybill’s GRAMMY-nominated release is the…
Two Gramophone Recordings of the Year!
Gramophone Magazine has released their 2015 Recordings of the Year in a special free digital issue and includes two Reference Recordings releases! Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Jan Kraybill, organ; Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern “…the crucial test is not so much the volume of the organ but the way in which the orchestral context of the symphony as a whole is established. Here Michael Stern impressively injects impetus into the first section’s sinewy fabric,…
Kansas City Saint-Saëns a “Definitive Version”
Kansas City Symphony’s GRAMMY® Award Nominated Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” recording gets a rave review from Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins in their November/December 2015 issue: “…a disc for the most demanding audiophile and for the most discerning music lover, not that the two are mutually exclusive. … This, I believe, is the most astonishingly realistic and most stunningly awesome recording I’ve ever heard, which is why I said above that it was a disc…
Organ Polychrome a Recording of the Year!
MusicWeb International critic Dan Morgan names Organ Polychrome one of his Recordings of the Year! “This is my top pick for 2015. Reference Recordings have a reputation for top-notch engineering, but that wouldn’t count for much without performances of equal stature. Indeed, Jan Kraybill’s exemplary musicianship and the lovely sound of this noble Kansas City instrument make this one of the finest organ recordings I know. Period.” —Dan Morgan Read Dan Morgan’s original MusicWeb review.…
Nadia Shpachenko and Jan Kraybill Thursday Videos
Nadia Shpachenko Performing George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening Buy Nadia Shpachenko’s Woman at the New Piano Read the latest Woman at the New Piano review! Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony Test the Casavant Organ Get Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony recording today! Hear Jan Kraybill and the Casavant Organ in full splendour in Organ Polychrome!
Specs for the The Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ, Opus 3875
In David Hurwitz’s fantastic new review of the Kansas City Symphony’s Saint-Saëns “Organ” Symphony recording, he states “I do wish, though, that Reference Recordings had included a stop list in the booklet. The instrument has some interesting timbres and I would have liked to know what resources it calls upon to make them.” Unfortunately these specs were not able to fit in the included liner notes, but in case anyone else might be curious, we…
“Glorious” and “Stupendous” Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 from Kansas City
Classical Music Sentinel composer Jean-Yves Duperron offers advice for how to challenge the top Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 recordings and says Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony have it “down and then some.” “I’ve never heard such a well-rounded account of this impressive symphonic work. Under Michael Stern’s direction, the slow movement glows with expressive touches and the final movement blows everyone else out of the water. The impressive Casavant pipe organ which has…