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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, we’re featuring our Dallas Wind Symphony recording that includes Irish Tune from County Derry. The album is Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band By Percy Grainger. Another track from that recording, The Gumsuckers March also happens to appear on our new HRx Sampler. Percy Grainger’s LINCOLNSHIRE POSYperformed by the Dallas Wind Symphony Showcases the wind band music of Percy Grainger, including favorites Lincolnshire Posy and Irish Tune from County Derry…
St. Patrick’s Day Feature Album – Lincolnshire Posy
Though Percy Grainger is thought of as supremely important in the preservation of British Folk Tunes, we just couldn’t resist using this album for St. Patrick’s Day due to our inclusion of Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy). So, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, and make sure that Lincolnshire Posy is a part of your musical celebration. And if you don’t have it, now is the time to visit us at http://referencerecordings.com and get your…
A Great Find – Indiana Public Radio Grainger Podcast
Today we came across something we just had to share. It’s a podcast from the Indiana Public Radio Station (WFIU) from almost a year ago highlighting the then recent release “Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger.” So, we thought we would share the WFIU Classical Music Podcast featuring our recordings and give you the link to the rest of their podcasts. Click “play” to listen to WFIU’s presentation of “Lincolnshire Posy: Music…
Raving Grainger Review
We have to interrupt our discussion about the upcoming Britten album to share this fantastic review of the Dallas Wind Symphony album Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger the review is because the album was featured as “Recording of the Month” on MusicWeb! Very Exciting, and we especially love you the review begins! Without further ado, here is the review: MusicWeb – Recording of the MonthBy Benn Martin This is more than…
Reference Recordings News!
Today we would just like to give some news on what is going on at Reference Recordings. First and foremost, our End of Summer SALE is still going on! So, if you wanted to expand your libraries with some HRx recordings, or HDCD recordings, or check out our two new SACD releases, now is the time! Or if there have been some recordings you had been thinking about getting, now is when you should load…
One more DWS video
Here is another video of behind-the-scenes footage from the Lincolnshire Posy recording sessions! Remember there is still a contest going on Twitter and we have yet to have a winner. We also put up some hints to make it easier. Here is the video:
Dallas Wind Symphony Recordings Video
Here is another video from the Dallas Wind Symphony recording sessions. We apologize for the time it took to get it uploaded, and apologize for the brief release of this video in a super low-quality. For a chance to win this album follow us on Twitter and participate in our Trivia Contest! Here it is: Remember to visit our YouTube Channel!
Twitter Contest
We are doing a Twitter-only contest starting today. This is going to be the one posting that will include all the information on this contest in one place. If you want to find out the information directly on Twitter, do a “Twitter-search” for #ReferenceRecordings. Also, please visit Twitter.com/RefRecordings to participate. The contest will work as follows: The first three people to answer the question: “Can you name the THREE Direct-To-CD titles RR has released?” will…
Dallas Wind Symphony – Behind the Scenes
Today we have a very cool feature. We are going to give you a look at a short clip of behind-the-scenes footage from the Dallas Wind Symphony Lincolnshire Posy recording session. This video is only one of 5, we will post a couple more here throughout the rest of this week. But, for all of the videos, you will have to go to our new YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/ReferenceRecordings Here You Go!
Reviews of Lincolnshire Posy (Dallas Wind Symphony) – Day 3
In light of the new Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler being released next week, we thought it might be fun to share some reviews of the Lincolnshire Posy album by the Dallas Wind Symphony that was released in January. We will do one review per day as some of these are long! So here are some uncensored reviews: Arts Journal: About Last Night: http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/01/cd_38.htmlReview by Terry Teachout Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Wind Symphony, Lincolnshire Posy:…
Reviews of Lincolnshire Posy (Dallas Wind Symphony) – Day 2
In light of the new Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler being released next week, we thought it might be fun to share some reviews of the Lincolnshire Posy album by the Dallas Wind Symphony that was released in January. We will do one review per day as some of these are long! So here are some uncensored reviews: Classics Today: http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=12149Review by David Hurwitz10/10 Review (10-Artistic Quality, 10-Sound Quality) There is no shortage of recordings dedicated…
Reviews of Lincolnshire Posy (Dallas Wind Symphony) – Day 1
In light of the new Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler being released next week, we thought it might be fun to share some reviews of the Lincolnshire Posy album by the Dallas Wind Symphony that was released in January. We will do one review per day as some of these are long! So here are some uncensored reviews: Allmusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=43:182678Review by Uncle Dave Lewis Percy Grainger was best known during his lifetime as a virtuoso concert…