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Looking Back on Respighi Reviews
Now that our Grammy Nominated Respighi recording is available as a Reference Mastercuts LP, we wanted to take a look back at what critics were saying when it was first released! “Oue plays each piece to the hilt; I cannot imagine more precise, more lovingly conducted performances. As for the recording, I’m running out of superlatives – it is brilliant and weighty, with tremendous undistorted dynamics.”–Peter Aczel, THE AUDIO CRITIC “The sound given to this…
RESPIGHI — Reference Mastercuts LP Available NOW!
RM1509 – Our Newest 33 1/3 rpm LP release — available NOW! RESPIGHI Eiji Oue & the Minnesota Orchestra Grammy® Nominated: Best Engineered Album, Classical Keith O. Johnson, Engineer “Dazzling orchestral colors,” is one one way to describe the music of Ottorino Respighi. “Belkis, Queen of Sheba” was conceived as an evening-long ballet with singing whose lavishness has kept it from view since its La Scala premiere. This is only the second recording of a…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Kansas City Symphony LP
Audiophile Audition has a new review for our new Reference Mastercuts LP of the Kansas City Symphony’s Elgar and Vaughan Williams recording: “This version of Elgar’s familiar “Greensleeves” variations may be the best one on recordings—absolutely spell-binding… “The work’s concluding “Finale” brings the variations to a tumultuous close, and since Reference stays away from the center label a good distance and there is only around 14 minutes maximum per side, fidelity is astounding. “…this 200-gram…
Now Available – Doug MacLeod There’s A Time LP!
Doug MacLeod There’s A Time NOW available as a 200-gram vinyl two-LP set, 45 rpm, half-speed mastered and pressed at Quality Record Pressings (RM-2507) ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by Reference Recordings’ Grammy® winning engineer. Also featuring Doug’s longtime bassist Denny Croy and Jimi Bott, one of the most recorded, awarded and respected blues drummers in the…
Exotic Dances from the Opera already a true Reference recording
Exotic Dances from the Opera is already becoming a true “reference” recording! Check out this quick line from Stereophile‘s California Audio Show report: “With Focal Scala Utopias elevated on stands to decouple them from the floor and make their immediacy available to a room filled with audiophiles, a tape of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers from Reference Recordings’ Exotic Dances at the Opera sounded right on.” Make sure to get your copy of this recording…