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Reference Recordings featured in TechnoFile
TechnoFile.com It was quite the pleasure to find Jim Bray’s article featuring Reference Recordings on TechnoFile.com this weekend. So we thought it would be fun to share some of the great quotes from it with you here on our blog. Though, we highly suggest reading the full article as we suspect many of you will have similar feelings and ideas about audio quality as Mr. Bray. Reference Recordings Offer Quality Sound for Audiophiles:By Jim Bray…
José Serebrier Nominated for a Latin Grammy
Conductor and composer José Serebrier has been nominated for a 2011 Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album by The Latin Recording Academy. José Serebrier has conducted three Reference Recordings releases, and we want to celebrate this fabulous recognition! RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade and Russian Easter OvertureLONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAJosé SerebrierA protege of Dorati and Stokowski, Serebrier is famous for his mastery of the colorful, virtuoso scores of the Russian Romantics. This is his first recording of the…
Brand New Eyes Nominated for CBA “Muddy” Award
Doug MacLeod’s Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Brand New Eyes has been nominated for a “Muddy” Award from the Cascade Blues Association as the best National Blues Recording of 2011. About the Muddy Awards: Named in honor of one of blues music’s most influential forces —McKinley Morganfield, or Muddy Waters— the Cascade Blues Association’s annual Muddy Awards Celebration honors local, regional, national and international stars of the blues. Every September, the Cascade Blues Association solicits…
Audiophile Audition Reviews Brubeck/Gandolfi/Foss
Audiophile Audition‘s Lee Passarella published a wonderful review of the Concord Chamber Music Society’s release of music from Chris Brubeck, Michael Gandolfi, and Lukas Foss. We’ll share some quotes centering on each composer, but we encourage you to read the review on AudAud.com. From Audiophile Audition: “…Musically, the entrance of the players one by one gives the piece a nice, improvisatory feel, like a jam session coming together in an especially ad hoc manner. It’s…
End of Summer Sale Reminder
Just a friendly reminder that you still have Two Weeks Left to take advantage of our End of Summer Sale! End of Summer Sale! It is becoming an end-of-summer tradition — we’re having a SALE! Buy two or more items and save 20% on your entire order! EVERYTHING on our site is eligible* and the more you order, the more you save! Sale ends on the first day of autumn, September 23rd at NOON Pacific…
A fun look back
We’ve shared this interview before, but with our new LP releases, it’s rather fun to once again take a look back at the fantastic interview between our Tam Henderson and Stereophile‘s John Atkinson. The 1989 interview focuses a lot on RR’s move from LP to CD, so it makes for a rather interesting reference as we begin releasing LPs again. Take another look, or a first look if you haven’t yet read it, and pay…
Reference Recording LPs: The Reference Mastercuts Series
LP Release Day! Reference Recordings LPs: The Reference Mastercuts Series RM-2501 Dick Hyman From The Age of Swing2 LP set, 45 rpm, 200-gram discs from Quality Record Pressings, in gatefold jacket “Jazz piano master Dick Hyman, with some of the greatest jazzmen who lived and played through The Age of Swing: Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Milt Hinton, Butch Miles, Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Temperly, Frank Wess and Joe Wilder.” 4.5 Stars – Downbeat A longtime student…
Stereophile gets excited about our LPs
Thanks to Stereophile for the great writeup! We’re getting pretty excited about our LPs coming out on Friday, but it’s great to see that others are too! We’ve seen the excitement on Facebook and Twitter, and so we wanted to share some of the great inside information that Stereophile was able to get out of the RR team. From Sterophile: In 2005, when RR became aware of the vinyl resurgence, they searched throughout North America,…
Reference Records LPs Are Ready!
Reference Recordings LPs: The Reference Mastercuts Series TWO NEW RELEASES September 2, 2011 For many years, RR has been searching the world over for the best possible vinyl mastering, plating and pressing facilities so we could re-enter the LP market. We now have a production chain that will allow us to produce LPs to meet our high standards and satisfy our demanding customers, who have been waiting for these LPs for a long time! Assembling…
Two New HRx Titles!
HR-122 & HR-25 Now Available! Two of our best recordings are now available for the first time on 174.6 kHz/24 bit DVD data discs! Concord Chamber Music Society:Brubeck/Gandolfi/Foss HR-122These new works by Chris Brubeck and Michael Gandolfi, two of America’s most-commissioned composers, are both accessible and adventurous. Grammy award winning engineer “Prof.” Keith Johnson did an outstanding job of recording this music in the superb natural acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, an historic…
End of Summer Sale!
End of Summer Sale! It is becoming an end-of-summer tradition — we’re having a SALE! Buy two or more items and save 20% on your entire order! EVERYTHING on our site is eligible* and the more you order, the more you save! Sale ends on the first day of autumn, September 23rd at NOON Pacific Daylight Time! For other news and to order securely online, visit RR’s website *sale does not include sets that already…
Kris Becker raves about “The Bowie Variations”
Composer/Songrwiter/Keyboardist Kris Becker, weighs in on Mike Garson’s The Bowie Variations via email (used with permission): Mike, I’ve been listening to your BOWIE VARIATIONS over time, in order to soak it in. Loved it upon first hearing but wanted to get on the inside of it a bit more. My favorites are hard to pick, since it’s all so great… Space Oddity: extremely beautiful. Wow. Very very heartfelt and sophisticated. I could go on in…
Chris Brubeck on Composers Datebook
Last Saturday, Chris Brubeck and his piece Danza del Soul, found on our Concord Chamber Music Society release, was featured on American Public Media’s program “Composers Datebook.” Take a listen: Composers Datebook (8/20): Chris Brubeck’s Danza del soul
WRUV Radio Reviews Brubeck/Gandolfi/Foss
Just wanted to share a quick review from the Burlington, Vermont radio station WRUV. You’ll notice the part that made us smile at the very end. Brubeck/Gandolfi/FossConcord Chamber Music Societyreview by Laima “Varied and interesting works by Chris Brubeck (son of Dave), Lukas Foss and Michael Gandolfi. Brubeck’s pieces are jazz inflected, Foss’ as the title suggests (Central Park Reel) is bluegrassy, and Gandolfi’s are abstract and lyrical. Play all!“ Brubeck, Gandolfi and Foss RR-122…
Doug MacLeod performs “Brand New Eyes”
When we came across this video of Doug Macleod performing for a memorial picnic sponsored by the Baltimore Blues Society, we just couldn’t resist sharing. It was a small outdoor crowd, but judging by this one song, they got a heck of a show: