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Britten’s Orchestra Review – SF Classical Voice
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from the San Francisco Classical Voice. The review is one of their suggested Christmas items: Britten’s Orchestra; Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern (Reference Recordings RR-120) Britten’s OrchestraThe latest release from the Bay Area–based, audiophile label Reference Recordings is one of the finer introductions available to Benjamin Britten’s orchestral works. If there’s anything that the composer’s famous Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra demands, it’s…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – Audiophilia
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from Anthony Kershaw at Audiohilia: the Online Journal for the Serious Audiophile: Britten’s Orchestra — Stern/Kansas City Symphony/Reference Recordingsby Anthony Kershaw Its fourth music director, Michael Stern (son of violinist, Issac), has secured the recording services of Reference Recordings and the amazing recording engineer, Prof. Keith Johnson. Johnson’s recordings with Reference are legendary. Audiophiles know and love them, the mainstream should follow suit. The…
Britten’s Orchestra Audio Preview – HDtracks.com
We know that some people just don’t believe anything until they see it, and when it comes to music, they don’t believe anything until they hear it! So, today we’d like to direct you over to our friends at HDtracks.com who currently have an 88khz/24bit downloadable version of Britten’s Orchestra (HRx is coming VERY soon, we will let you know so you can get them in time for Christmas). The reason we are directing you…
Britten’s Orchestra Release Day!!!!!
Britten’s Orchestra Michael Stern Kansas City Symphony The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a symphonic tour-de-force and audio spectacular, featuring all sections of the symphony, separately and together. Based on a famous theme by Henry Purcell, Britten writes in essence his “Concerto for Orchestra,” taking the ensemble apart, then reassembling it in a grand and jubilant finale. Dynamic range is extreme. Britten was a dedicated pacifist, and the Sinfonia da requiem from 1940…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – Kansas City Star
Kansas City Symphony shines on ‘Britten’s Orchestra’ By STEVE PAULThe Kansas City Star Michael Stern (seated left) during the recording of the Kansas City Symphony’s new CD, “Britten’s Orchestra,” at the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence. The CD will be released Tuesday. The Kansas City Symphony of the Michael Stern era made its recording debut in 2008 with an inventive pairing of two works inspired by Shakespeare’s “Tempest.” The disc, featuring music by Sir…
Britten’s Orchestra Review
We wanted to publish a review that has already come out from ClassicsToday.com even before Britten’s Orchestra has been released! Thank you to the Kansas City Symphony for directing us to this via Twitter & Facebook. Classics Today BENJAMIN BRITTENThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; Sinfonia da requiem; Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia Kansas City SymphonyMichael SternReference Recordings- 120(CD) This is an impressive recording of these frequently encountered pieces. The Young Person’s…
One Week to go for Britten’s Orchestra Release
We are less than one week away from the release of Britten’s Orchestra!!!! To help get you as excited as we are, here is a press release about it from the Kansas City Star. BRILLIANT BRITTEN!New Kansas City Symphony CD to be released November 10 (Kansas City) – The Kansas City Symphony, led by Music Director Michael Stern, will release their second CD for award-winning audiophile label Reference Recordings on November 10, 2009. Titled Britten’s…
The Music of Peter Grimes – Britten’s Orchestra
Though we aren’t getting into opera, we are doing the orchestral suite music from the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. Peter Grimes was writtten by Britten as a libretto adopted from a section of George Crabbe’s poem The Borough. First perfromed in London in 1945, Peter Grimes was Britten’s first opera to become a critical and popular sucess, and is now considered a staple of U.K. and U.S. repertoire. However, what is of most…
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
As the countdown to Britten’s Orchestra gets closer, we thought we would talk about the actual music that is going to be on the album. So, today we thought we’d start with “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” by Benjamin Britten. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, opus 34 was written by Benjamin Britten in 1964. It was orginially commissioned for an educational documentary film called The Instruments of the Orchestra, and featured…
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.
Michael Stern Talks about the Upcoming Release
Want a great quote from Michael Stern about the upcoming release of Britten’s Orchestra on Reference Recordings? Well, we have one…sort of. Here is a posting from the Kansas City Star: The subscription series winds up June 4 weekend with an all-Russian program and another premier piano soloist, Vladimir Feltsman. Among the works is Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, which marked the joyful end of World War II. The Symphony, of course, has an even broader…
Britten’s Orchestra Countdown – Tempest Review
We have begun the countdown to the release of Britten’s Orchestra (see the countdown clock on the sidebar), and so to kick it off, we thought we’d share a great and fun review of the last Kansas City Symphony album Tempest.
Britten’s Orchestra Progress
We wanted to let our readers/followers know where we are at with the Britten’s Orchestra album. It is finished and the master has been sent to pressing! This is a cause for extreme excitement. We were racing the clock in order to make our deadlines so that the album will be released in November! So, this is good news for you as there won’t be any prolonged waiting. “Prof” Johnson had to pull an all-nighter…
Benjamin Britten
Well, in order to get you prepared for our upcoming Kansas City Release, we thought we would give you a little background information on Benjamin Britten. So, in good taste we are going to steal a bit from Wikipedia. To see the original Wikipedia source click HERE. Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed musical gifts very early in life, and began composing prolifically…
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,…