Archive for New Recording Project
Well Wishes for the Weekend
We’re looking forward to the weekend as the RR recording team has been hard at work this week in Kansas City. That’s right, we’ve been working on a new recording with the Kansas City Symphony to follow up the Grammy® winning, Britten’s Orchestra. Early reports are that the performances and sound are thrilling! Repertory includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations and The Wasps by Vaughan Williams. The project is again conducted by Michael Stern, produced by David…
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Conductor – Martin West
Monday we told you about our new recording of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, so today we wanted to share a little more about the ensemble’s conductor, Martin West. Martin West is acknowledged as one of the foremost conductors of ballet, garnering critical acclaim throughout the world. Born in Bolton, England, he studied math at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, before studying at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music and London’s Royal Academy of Music.…
New Recording!
Things are really moving here at Reference Recordings. Not only did we just release our first HRx Sampler, and our third Fresh! release “Brand New Eyes“, we are also doing a new recording this week of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Grammy-nominated producers Victor & Marina Ledin join Grammy winner, Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound. Martin West conducts the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra through suites from Léo Delibes’ Coppelia and Sylvia. Martin West, conductorSan…
News from Reference Recordings
Posted by Tam Henderson Most of last week, Keith Johnson, Sean Martin and I were in Charlotte, NC recording a new project at Reflection Sound Studios, scene of several RR past successes. The music is a new genre for us, featuring a talented young Brazilian singer-songwriter-guitarist, Reinaldo Brahn. The songs sound to me unusually rich and complex for “popular” music, with tasty arrangements for woodwinds, trumpet, electric guitar, keyboards (piano & synth), electric bass, drums,…
Concord Chamber Players – Line Drawings
We have told you that we are going to be doing a World Premiere Recording of Michael Gandolfi’s “Line Drawings” performed by the Concord Chamber Players. So, today we thought we would kick off your weekend by sharing a video of the Concord Chamber Players and Michael Gandolfi talking about the piece as well as playing some excerpts from it!
About the Concord Chamber Music Society
Today we thought we would share some more information on the Concord Chamber Music Society and the Concord Chamber Players which we will be doing a recording project with soon. The Concord Chamber Music Society, Inc. (“CCMS”) was founded by Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Wendy Putnam in January of 2000. CCMS presents a series of five chamber music concerts per year in Concord, MA and administers a diversified educational outreach program. The concerts and educational…
New Recording Project – Chris Brubeck
Yesterday we told you about our upcoming recording project with the Concord Chamber Music Society, and let you know that we will be doing a world premiere recording of Chris Brubeck’s piece Danza del Soul. So today we thought we would tell you a little more about the composer! Chris Brubeck: Christ Brubeck continues to distinguish himself as an innovative performer and composer. During the 70’s he began touring and recording with his father, Dave…
New Recording Project Announcement!
We are excited to announce that Reference Recordings will be doing a recording project with the Concord Chamber Players this September! This exciting project will include TWO World Premieres – “Danza del Soul” by Christopher Brubeck, and “Line Drawings” by Michael Gandolfi. Also on the project will be Lukas Foss’ “Central Park Reel.” These exciting modern pieces will be recorded in Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mechanics Hall is an internationally acclaimed hall well known…