Archive for Sylvia and Coppelia
Now Available for the first time – Full HRx Downloads!
Five Full HRx Albums now available for download on HDtracks! Now Available as 176.4 kHz / 24-bit downloads: Elgar: Enigma Variations/Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Greensleeves – San Francisco Ballet Orchestra “The finale is extremely impressive, aided by state-of-the-art sonics that offer the finest integration of organ and orchestra.” – Classics Today “This new recording engineered by Keith Johnson is typical of the Professor’s natural sound, accorded transparency and depth.” – Audiophilia Conductor Michael Stern leads…
Delibes Sylvia/Coppelia gets a rave from Home Theater HiFi
Our San Francisco Ballet Orchestra recording of Delibes: Sylvia and Coppélia gets listed as a Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity “Spring 2013 Secrets CD.” Here’s the posted review from Jason Victor Serinus (originally posted on San Francisco Classical Voice): “There are at least three compelling reasons to buy this recording. The music, suites drawn from Léo Delibes’ complete scores for the ballets Sylvia (first produced at Théâtre de l’Opéra, Paris, in 1876) and…
2012 Year In Review – Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
2013 is quickly approaching and we’re taking a look back through our 2012 releases! DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet Orchestra Extended Suites From the Ballets Producers Victor and Marina Ledin’s 2012 portfolio (including Delibes: Syliva and Coppélia) has been nominated for the 2013 Producer of the Year (Classical) GRAMMY Award! REVIEWS: “Both scores receive first-rate performances… [Martin West] obviously knows the scores like the back of his hand… As such, both Coppélia and Sylvia…
Delibes Reviews Pour in over the weekend
Reviews for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia came pouring in over the weekend! Check out a few quotes below: Gramophone: “…This pairing of suites from the composer’s ballets by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the first and still arguably best-standing ballet orchestra in the US, avoids both extremes. Under current music director Martin West, the orchestra revels in the immediacy of the music without ever losing sight of the overall narrative. So too…
The Absolute Sound calls Delibes album an Instant Audiophile Classic
The Absolutes Sound hails our recent release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia an “instant audiophile classic.” From The Absolute Sound: “For 30 years, “Professor” Keith Johnson and reference Recordings have provided audiophiles with orchestral spectaculars to challenge high-end systems. This new CD of two perennially popular ballet favorites could be their best yet. The sense of individual instruments, or groups of instruments —say, four French horns— occupying their own space, is uncanny.The scaling of those instruments…
Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia HRx
Newest Reference Recordings release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia available in HRx format! See what others are saying about Sylvia & Coppélia: WCLV Radio CriticalDance.com Huffington Post Audiophile Audition Positive Feedback Audiophilia Classical Music Sentinel “… what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also present Delibes’ SYLVIA, a…
WQXR features Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
The newest RR release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppelia featuring the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra was featured as the WQXR “Album of the Week.” From Sunday, April 29 through the first week of May, WQXR featured Sylvia & Coppelia as a part of their weekly spotlight on compelling new recordings. From WQXR: “We at WQXR don’t encounter too many recordings by ballet orchestras…The oldest professional ballet company in America, [San Francisco Ballet] is also one of…
WCLV Features Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
We’re a little late finding this out, but we wanted to thank WCLV (northeast Ohio’s classical radio station since 1962) 104.9 Classcial FM for choosing our new release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia as one of their “Choice CDs of the Day” during the month of March! WCLV featured the new recording on March 7th, 16th, and 27th, and had this to say: How wonderful to have new recordings of this music and by an American…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia
Audiophile Audition has a fantastic new review of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s new release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia, calling it “thrilling.” “Reference Recordings’ Keith O. Johnson takes a crack at the colorful, sentimental and daring music, perfect for Johnny Depp as Captain Hook…The results are thrilling: they capture the space (Skywalker Sound) so naturally and comfortably that the explosion of kettle drums in the high camp “huntresses” scene can be heard to the lowest depths of…
RR Radio – Sylvia/Coppelia Sampler Pack
Still don’t have the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia? Well now you can get the ultimate preview via the new RR Radio Sampler Pack: DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet OrchestraExtended Suites From the Ballets RR-125HDCD “… what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also…
Positive Feedback reviews Sylvia & Coppelia
New release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia (released 3/13) gets some positive feedback from Positive Feedback! “The beautifully full and rich or ripe Keith Johnson recording will please most music lovers with not even a hint of harshness or distortion to be heard…there will be no complaints with that impressive and clearly solid deep bass response. Orchestral performance is quite excellent…my recommendation is for all, including newcomers to classical music.” —Karl Lozier, Positive Feedback Read the full review…
New Release – Delibes: Sylvia/Coppelia
DELIBES Sylvia/Coppélia Martin WestSan Francisco Ballet OrchestraExtended Suites From the Ballets RR-125HDCD “… what charm, what wealth of melody!” —Tchaikovsky on Delibes Leo Delibes’ COPPÉLIA is pure delight, a feast of musicality and humor for all ages. Probably the greatest ballet comedy ever written! On this disc we also present Delibes’ SYLVIA, a romance filled with sighs of longing and the thrill of infatuation. Set in antiquity, the ballet literally places love on a pedestal…
Classical Music Sentinel Review Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia
“Wow” and “Thanks!” is all we can say about this review from ClassicalMusicSentinel.com: “Now for this type of music to work removed from the stage, the level of playing and the quality of the recorded sound have to bring it to life. And that’s exactly what we get here in this fabulous new recording captured at the George Lucas Skywalker Sound Studios by Reference Recordings, a label known for using cutting edge technology to obtain…
Audiophilia Reviews Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia
Anthony Kershaw of Audiophilia has a nice new review of upcoming San Francisco Ballet Orchestra release Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia, which comes out March 13th! “Both scores receive first rate performances. Soloists have character and ensemble is generally very fine. And West keeps the tempi moving…This orchestra follows the conductor perfectly — he obviously knows the scores like the back of his hand and how to relate the music to the dance. As such, both Coppélia and…
A Look ahead – Coppélia
We are less than a month away from the release of Delibes: Sylvia/Coppélia featuring the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Martin West. A little from the album’s liner notes about Coppélia… In contrast to the “heroic” drama of gods and shepherds, Delibes’s earlier ballet Coppélia, or The Girl with Enamel Eyes, is an ingratiating comedy with a story line that was, and remains, unusually absorbing for its genre. Charles Nuitter, the archivist…