Archive for John Williams At The Movies
The Audio Beat Reviews the Dallas Winds’ John Williams At the Movies LP
The Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s 180-gram double-LP of John Williams at the Movies gets a 4 & 5-star rating from The Audio Beat: “Since 1976, with the release of Guitar and… featuring guitarist Bunyan Webb in recital accompanied by flute and viola, Reference Recordings has offered the music-loving audiophile an elegant buffet of exceptional recordings of a wide-ranging selection of music. … Now, 43 years after that first release, comes this deluxe two-LP reissue of a…
John Williams At The Movies – Now on LP!
2019 Best Engineered, Classical GRAMMY® Nominee2019 Best Classical Compendium GRAMMY® Nominee “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International 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 connected to outstanding…
John Williams At The Movies Gets Five Stars from The Absolute Sound
The Absolute Sound‘s Arthur Lintgen gives a 5-star Sonic Rating to the GRAMMY® Award-nominated Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin recording John Williams At The Movies: “give this spectacular recording a serious audition. The principal reason for the recording’s success is that Williams composed so effectively for brass and percussion. …all of the arrangements are spectacular, including the lengthy excerpts from Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T. Much of the album’s success is also due to the…
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…
The Absolute Sound Gives High Marks To John Williams At The Movies
The Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin‘s new John Williams At The Movies recording receives high marks (4 Stars for Music, 5 Stars for Sonics) in the December 2018 issue of The Absolute Sound: “The principal reason for the recording’s success is that Williams composed so effectively for brass and percussion. The sonority here is frequently different from the original orchestrations, but in most cases it works very well. … all of the arrangements are spectacular,…
The Arts Desk Reviews John Williams At The Movies
The Arts Desk‘s Graham Rickson’s Classical CD Weekly column features a new review for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording! “The Dallas Winds is a rarity in that it’s a professional wind band, 50 woodwind, brass and percussion players tackling ‘an eclectic blend ranging from marches and Broadway show tunes, to soundtracks and big band standards’. This is an unabashedly popular release, but that’s all the more reason to…
Classical CD Choice Reviews John Williams At The Movies
Classical CD Choice critic Barry Forshaw offers a new review for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams At The Movies recording: “Like the venerable composers who inspired him (such as Eric Wolfgang Korngold and Bernard Herrmann, who straddled the worlds of Hollywood and the concert hall), John Williams’ writing for strings is one of the glories of his matchless film music — which is what makes this lively and attractive set such…
John Williams At The Movies Gets Five Stars from HRAudio
Graham Williams and HRAudio.net give John Williams At The Movies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for performance and multi-channel sonics in a new review: “Each new release from the Reference Recordings label is anticipated with a tingle of excitement, promising not just an aural treat for audiophiles but also high musical values, and this latest sonic spectacular featuring the film music of John Williams is no exception. For decades Keith O Johnson, the doyen of recording engineers, and his…
InfoDad Reviews John Williams At The Movies
A new review from Transcentury Communications’s family-focused review site, “InfoDad” for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording: “[John] Williams…is for his film pieces that he is best known – those, plus some of his TV work, such as the Olympic Fanfare and Theme that he wrote for the 1984 Summer Olympics and that opens a very fine, very upbeat new Reference Recordings SACD featuring the Dallas Winds under Jerry Junkin.…
John Williams At The Movies WRTI’s Album of the Week
WRTI Radio in Philadelphia names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin John Williams At The Movies recording their Album of the Week! “This latest album is a special collection: the performing ensemble is a virtuoso wind band that plays as though the music was written for them.… Its recordings on the Audiophile Reference Recordings label are stunning. Every nuance of the Dallas Winds’ playing can be heard with crystal clarity. … Beginning with his…
John Williams At The Movies is WCRB’s CD of the Week!
WCRB, Classical Radio Boston, names the new Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin recording of John Williams At The Movies their CD of the Week! “Conductor Jerry Junkin is celebrating his 25th season with Dallas Winds, one of America’s most energized and revered ensembles. Add in one of the world’s greatest trumpeters, a superb engineering team, and the goose bumps that come with John Williams’s music, and you’ve got one highly charged new CD – and…
Classical Music Sentinel Review for John Williams At The Movies
Jean-Yves Duperron of Classical Music Sentinel reviews the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams At The Movies recording: “Regardless of who you are, your age, where you live or what you do, at some point in your life you’ve had a close encounter (pun intended) with the music of John Williams. …it may not be “classical”, “symphonic” or “art” music, but rather written for “commercial” purposes as pointed out in the liner notes,…
Stereophile Reviews John Williams At The Movies
Stereophile Magazine’s Jason Victor Serinus reviewed the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s new John Williams at the Movies recording for a 4th of July feature: “For a major, decidedly American change of pace from our usual fare of Prokofiev, Debussy, Xenakis, Berg, and Beethoven (for starters), let’s lighten up with Reference Recordings’ latest hybrid SACD, John Williams at the Movies? Also available as a 176.4/24 download—the format in which it was recorded and which I…
Now Available – John Williams At The Movies
Dallas Winds Jerry JunkinChristopher Martin, Trumpet Music to inspire the world for generations! “a must for movie fans and audiophiles alike.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International 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 connected…
Coming Next Week: John Williams At The Movies
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 connected to outstanding music for films. He has written scores for over 100 films, and his massive list of awards includes 51 Academy Award nominations and…