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HRx Sampler Available as Hi-Res Download!
For the first time ever, you can get our HRx Sampler: A Classical & Jazz High Resolution Spectacular as a 176kHz/24bit DOWNLOAD via HDtracks.com! Download The Absolute Sound‘s “Best of Show” for Greatest Technological Breakthrough direct from HDtracks.com for $22.98! “… HRx albums from Reference Recordings are unlike anything I’ve ever heard. While I did have high expectations for these releases I certainly did not expect anything this close to perfection. I am absolutely blown…
Horns for the Holidays makes Inner Fidelity Gift Guide
Inner Fidelity‘s John Grandberg recommends new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays in his new 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: “There must be countless albums full of Christmas music out there, with more coming every year. Unfortunately, much of it is poor in both musical quality and content. Not so with the latest from the Dallas Wind Symphony, courtesy of the aptly-named Reference Recordings. This brilliant album is full of Christmas music that you’ll…
ClassicsToday Raves about new Horns for the Holidays CD
ClassicsToday.com reviewer David Vernier gives new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays a 9/10 for artistic quality and a 10/10 in Sound Quality in his rave review “A Merry, Windy Christmas.” “If you are a lover of Christmas music—carols, popular songs, and all manner of medleys and clever arrangements of such—and you miss this extraordinary recording by the first-rate Dallas Wind Symphony, then your holiday listening stands to be just a bit more…
Positive Feedback for Playing With Fire
Karl Lozier of Positive Feedback gives new Dallas Wind Symphony release Playing With Fire: Music By Frank Ticheli a rave review: “Many listeners need to know about this gem of a recording…you are going to like it at first listen. Make certain that you read along with the fine liner notes that explain what and why it sounds like it does. In the first composition, another conductor had Ticheli compose an appropriate short and feisty…
Behind the Scenes of Traveling Sonata’s Ravel Habenera
Viviana Guzman and Jérémy Jouvre take you behind the scenes of the recording of Traveling Sonata track Piéce en forme de habenera by Ravel: Watch on YouTube Order “Traveling Sonata” Securely from RR.com and enter the code “NEW-RR” to save 10%!
Now Available Everywhere – Traveling Sonatas – European Music For Flute & Guitar
Traveling Sonata: European Music For Flute & Guitar Viviana Guzmán, fluteJérémy Jouve, guitar An adventurous program of European masterworks for flute and guitar, from scintillating young artists VIVIANA GUZMÁN and JÉRÉMY JOUVE. Their outstanding performances have been captured brilliantly by Grammy®-winning recording engineer Keith O. Johnson. A winner for all audiophiles and music lovers! This album is a musical journey full of emotion, from the soothing and mellow music of Faure and Satie to the…
Horns for the Holidays Topping Charts
ArkivMusic.com has released their 2012 Christmas Favorites list, and new Dallas Wind Symphony release Horns for the Holidays has come in at Number Two! Take a look: >Click to see the full list! For a limited time, get this recording and RR’s two other recent releases at 10% Off with discount code “NEW-RR” on www.referencerecordings.com!
Audiophile Audition Gives Five Stars to Playing With Fire
Audiophile Audition‘s John Sunier gives new Dallas Wind Symphony release Playing With Fire Five Stars! “Playing With Fire is not only the title selection here but the main interest… The fact that the Jim Cullum Jazz Band is basically a trad jazz ensemble makes this one a bit different, and actually seems to make the mix of the classical and jazz approaches to blend a little more smoothly. … The other four works illustrate the…
LLoyd Jones on Oregon Arts Beat
Watch November 8, 2012 on PBS. See more from Oregon Art Beat.
New Release Sale and More!
For a limited time, use new special discount code — “NEW-RR” and receive a 10% discount on any or all of the following three new releases (enter code when ordering): Horns for the HolidaysJerry Junkin/Dallas Wind Symphony An outstanding new release from America’s premier professional wind band! The Dallas Wind Symphony has a worldwide legion of followers and this is their first recording of holiday music. Horns For The Holidays showcases an exciting 12-track lineup…
Viviana Guzman – Making Lemonade from Lemons
A touching story of how Viviana Guzman has conquered over adversity: Watch on YouTube
What’s on Traveling Sonata
Your first look at what’s on upcoming RR release Traveling Sonata:
Meet Playing With Fire Composer Frank Ticheli
Frank TicheliPhoto by Charlie Grosso Composer Frank Ticheli’s music has been described as being “optimistic and thoughtful” (Los Angeles Times), “lean and muscular” (New York Times), “brilliantly effective” (Miami Herald) and “powerful, deeply felt crafted with impressive flair and an ear for striking instrumental colors” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel). Since 1991, Ticheli has been a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. From 1991 to 1998, Ticheli was Composer in…
Meet The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
New Dallas Wind Symphony release Playing With Fire‘s title work features the sounds of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, so today we wanted to introduce this legendary ensemble: Organized in 1962, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band is renowned worldwide for playing the classic jazz associated with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke (among others) plus music by great American composers such as Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. The band…