The Reference Recordings team is headed to Austin for a double-recording session with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble. See the repertoire below and watch two video previews of Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2! Recording Session Repertoire Album 1 featuring the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and director Jerry F. Junkin John Corigliano, trans. Craig Davis – Concerto for Clarinet Adam Schoenberg – Symphony No. 2 Jennifer Jolley (newly commissioned piece) Stephen…
While setting up for our latest Dallas Winds recording session this past weekend, we discussed a new “Audiophile Corner” for our blog/site. Let us know if there are things you’d like to see included in the “corner”!
The RR crew is headed to Austin, Texas to record Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble! Repertoire: Spumante – Dan Welcher Jai été au bal – Donald Grantham Concerto for Clarinet – Frank Ticheli Nathan Williams, clarinet Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band – John Mackey Make sure to follow RR on Twitter for live updates and photos from the rehearsals on Friday!
“Prof” Keith O. Johnson & The Banner Saga Recording Team Multi-faceted, multi-media composer Austin Wintory and Reference Recording’s Chief Engineer, audio wizard, inventor and entertainment technologist Keith O. Johnson have combined their talents in the production of the official soundtrack for The Banner Saga video game created by Stoic Studios. Austin’s previous game score, Journey, is noteworthy as the first video game soundtrack nominated for a Grammy® (2013), charting in the Billboard Magazine Top 200…
Here’s a look at yesterday’s “The Banner Saga” recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony: Watch live video from awintory on TwitchTV Find out more about “The Banner Saga” in yesterday’s post.
Austin Wintory The Reference Recording team is in Dallas for another exciting Dallas Wind Symphony CD! Dallas Wind Symphony Records Composer Austin Wintory’s THE BANNER SAGA! Soundtrack Watch the Recording Session LIVE today (7/30) at 4:30pm (Central)! The Banner Saga: Factions Factions is the free multiplayer release of The Banner Saga, a role-playing, turn-based strategy game putting you in control of a clan of battle-hardened viking warriors. From the composer Austin Wintory: It takes place…
The RR Team is gearing up for today’s recording sessions, but yesterday, producer David Frost and RR Engineer “Prof” Keith O. Johnson took some time to talk with the Kansas City Symphony about what it is that they do! And here’s a look at the team going over the notes from last night’s “working performance” before today’s sessions:
The Kansas City Symphony has been hard at work rehearsing the program for this recording, and tonight they get a chance to show off just a little as they host a “Working Performance” tonight at the Kauffman Center. Patrons will be allowed to sit in the Parterre and Mezzanine areas and will get to watch and listen as Maestro Stern works with the musicians to get ready for the recording sessions on Thursday and Friday!…
Kansas City SymphonyPhoto Courtesy Chris Lee The RR recording team is in Kansas City today to begin getting things ready for the newest Kansas City Symphony recording sessions! The past two ventures with the organization have been extremely fruitful, including the Britten’s Orchestra recording winning a GRAMMY! So we are very excited about this new album! We’ll try to keep you updated throughout the week via Twitter and Facebook (and probably here as well), so…
As promised, we have a behind-the-scenes video from the the Dallas Wind Symphony recording sessions. We hope you enjoy it (and please remember that you’re hearing the audio as it was picked up from a digital camera’s microphone after coming through the monitor speakers).
The second day of the recording sessions went fantastically and were filled with great musical moments, fun, and a lot of hard work on the part of the RR staff, the DWS staff, and of course the DWS musicians. Here’s a look behind the scenes of today’s sessions: Getting ready for the next session Where the magic happens RR fans should recognize the logo on this… HDCD Getting ready to start again Warm-up time! Jerry…
Day one of the Dallas Wind Symphony recordings went extremely well, and as promised, we’ve got a look behind the scenes for you. The musicians warming up along with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band Just about to start Resetting the Stage A look at the Meyerson The famous organ of the Meyerson Keith changing the stage Backstage with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band RR Team hard at work Jerry Junkin and Tam Henderson after the…
If you’re not dialed into all of RR’s social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, this blog) already, now’s the time. We are in Dallas, Texas today through the weekend for recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony, and we’re going to be taking you with us behind the scenes! We’ll be doing some live tweeting during the recordings (follow us and the hashtag #RRdws11), and posting pictures and information on the blog and Facebook Page. And…