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Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Here at Reference Recordings, we are getting very excited about our upcoming album with the Kansas City Symphony, Britten’s Orchestra. So, to get you excited, here is a YouTube video of one of the movement’s from “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” Unfortunately, this is not the Kansas City Symphony. But, as you listen, imagine how great it will sound at audiophile quality in HRx, HDCD, possibly SACD, and maybe in the future on…
Britten’s Orchestra
Here is a little sneak peak of information that will be included about the new Kansas City Symphony album Britten’s Orchestra to be released in November!: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a virtuoso orchestral spectacular, which RR has wanted to record for many years. Sinfonia da Requiem is widely considered to be Britten’s finest orchestral inspiration, full of kaleidoscopic color and wide dynamic range. The music of Peter Grimes, Britten’s operatic masterpiece,…
Michael Stern
Greetings Readers! In anticipation of the upcoming release of the Kansas City Symphony’s album Britten’s Orchestra, we would like to introduce you to their conductor Michael Stern. The following is his bio as posted on their website. Conductor Michael Stern is in his fourth season as music director of the Kansas City Symphony, hailed for its remarkable artistic growth and development since his tenure began. Stern and the Symphony concluded their first year together by…
Kansas City Symphony New Album Information
Here is some new and specific information about the upcoming (release date still pending) album from the Kansas City Symphony, including the album name! Britten’s Orchestra, RR-120 HDCD 1. The Repertoire:The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a virtuoso orchestral spectacular, which RR has wanted to record for many years. Sinfonia da Requiem is widely considered to be Britten’s finest orchestral inspiration, and is full of color and wide dynamic range. The music of…
Kansas City Symphony New Release – Track Listings
As promised, we will now share with you the track listings for the upcoming Kansas City Symphony album on Reference Recordings: Britten Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, op. 33b Britten “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, op. 33a I. Dawn: Lento e tranquilloII. Sunday morning: Allegro spiritosoIII. Moonlight: Andante comodo e rubatoIV. Storm: Presto con fuoco Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, op. 20 I. LacrymosaII. Dies IraeIII. Requiem Aeternum Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,…
Kansas City Symphony New Release – Sneak Peak!
Greetings Fans!!! As promised, you will get a sneak peak at what is going to be on the Kansas City Symphony’s new album with Reference Recordings. But, we aren’t going to indulge too much today. We are going to post here the press release for the pre-recording session concert that the Kansas City Symphony held June 4th. We have blanked out the names of the actual pieces because we will release that information on Monday!…
Kansas City Symphony – New Release
Here on the blog we like to give exciting upcoming information. As many may know last February, Reference Recordings partnered with the Kansas City Symphony to create a number of albums. This fall (2009), the second of those albums will be released. We will not be giving away the title or contents of that album today, but in order to get you excited we want to turn back the pages to last summer’s debut, Tempest!…