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Reviews for Yerba Buena Bounce
Check out what reviewers said of the original HDCD release of The Hot Club of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Bounce: “…violinist Evan Price and guitarist Paul Mehling leapt into the stratosphere with flurries of notes… Price’s tone was sweet and plangent. And, oh, momma, is Mehling ever one fast-fingered guitarist. Whooowee, what runs, what flurries.” —Wes Phillips, Stereophile 12/2007 “It’s the synergies, combination of highly competent execution, accessibility and the fact that they swing harder…
Listen to Yerba Buena Bounce on Spotify
We recently got into an interesting discussion on Facebook and Twitter about people in the audiophile world using Spotify to preview music before getting a recording in a higher audio format. So, with the release of our newest Reference Mastercuts LP we thought it would be fun to share the original recording as it appears on Spotify in case you don’t already have an HDCD or HRx copy. Take a listen and then get the…
New Reference Mastercuts Release – The Hot Club of San Francisco
New Reference Mastercuts LP! RM-2503 The Hot Club of San Francisco Yerba Buena Bounce 2 LP set, 45 rpm, 200-gram discs from Quality Record Pressings, in gatefold jacket “San Francisco has the earned reputation as a city that is unique and goes its own independent direction. I think that can also be said of the Hot Club of San Francisco, a creative band that masters Gypsy Jazz, but gives it new shape, sound, and inspiration…
Doug MacLeod on WYCE & GRTV!
Doug MacLeod is featured in a wonderful, wonderful new video on Songs From the Second Floor in a collaboration between GRTV, WYCE, and The Rapidian! Watch as Doug explains and plays his Reference Recordings release’s title track Brand New Eyes! BRAND NEW EYES with Blues Master Doug MacLeod FR-703 MacLeod has been a beacon of unquestionably honest roots-music since the 1970s. On Brand New Eyes, he presents 11 original songs. He is the rare artist…
Viviana Guzman featured on the National Flute Association Home Page!
Upcoming RR artist Viviana Guzman is currently featured on The National Flute Association‘s website! A pretty nice place to be featured if you’re a flute player! The NFA has one of her latest interviews (from the 2011 NFA Convention) linked right up front, and her upcoming “Viviana Guzman Group” concert is at the top of upcoming events! Take a look at the image on this blog or see for yourself at www.nfaonline.org! And don’t forget…
Looking Back On: Psalms – Turtle Creek Chorale
In continuing our ongoing new series “Looking Back:” albums from Reference Recordings’ past, we are taking the opportunity to feature a 1999 release that is particularly appropriate for the current Holy Week holidays — Psalms, featuring the Turtle Creek Chorale. Why Psalms? In the continual search for repertoire appropriate to a large male chorus, our attention turned toward the multi-faceted texts of the Psalms. Over the past 3,000 years, much has been written about the…
Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia featured on The Huffington Post
Big thanks to reviewer Laurence Vittes for submitting his review of Delibes: Sylvia and Coppélia to The Huffington Post to be featured in their “Haiku Reviews” section! About the HuffPost Arts’ Haiku Reviews: HuffPost Arts’ Haiku Reviews is a monthly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be a sonnet and others might be more free-form. This month,…
Sylvia & Coppélia review offers praise for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra!
Noted San Francisco dance critic Heather Desaulniers offers great praise for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in her review of Delibes: Sylvia & Coppélia on her Dance Commentary blog: “The first half of Reference Recording’s Delibes collection features music from “Sylvia”. Track four, Valse Lente, is a perfect testament to the broad range within the score. Dynamically, this four minute variation runs the entire spectrum, from the quietest of pianissimos to the most forceful of…
Great News for Dallas Wind Symphony Fans
Great news for Dallas area fans of the Dallas Wind Symphony! Sunday brings the Dallas market premier of the Wind & Rhythm Radio Show at 8pm Central Standard. Wind & Rhythm: The Gathering Place for People Who Love Band Music! “Wind and Rhythm is a one-hour weekly broadcast devoted to the music of Wind Bands hosted by Doug Brown. The show features Wind Symphonies, Wind Ensembles, Wind Orchestras, Concert Bands, Symphonic Bands, and Brass Bands…
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…
Looking back on Chihara: The Tempest
Earlier in the month, RR released a new recording of the ballet music of Delibes, featuring suites from the ballet’s Sylvia and Coppélia. But this was not the first release of ballet music from Reference Recordings. In fact, one of RR’s first releases featured the Paul Seiko Chihara’s score of The Tempest, which was premiered by the San Francisco Ballet in 1980 (the orchestra which appears on the new Sylvia/Coppélia release!), and recorded by The…
Going Thru Vinyl Mike Garson Interview Finale
We’ve come to the finale in our Going Thru Vinyl interview series with Mike Garson. We want to thank the blog for the wonderful content and for letting us share it with you here! Listen to (part 4 of 4) – Mike Garson Sticks His Neck Out To Protect Our Country Listen to parts one, two, and three! MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie.…
Going Thru Vinyl Mike Garson Interview Part Three!
We’re up to Part Three of Going Thru Vinyl’s Interview/Concert with Mike Garson! (Listen to parts one and two) Listen here! Follow along with this podcast series on Going Thru Vinyl! MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie. Beginning in 1972, super-versatile pianist Mike Garson performed, toured internationally and recorded with one of the most creative figures in popular music, David Bowie. Having played the…
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…