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Audiophile Audition reviews Dawn to Dust!
Audiophile Audition gives Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust recording four stars calling it a “Notable contemporary music from Utah in a lovely recording.” “Dawn To Dust contains live recordings of three significant and interesting works by leading composers Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman.… The first work on the disc is a lovely and dynamic contemporary ballet for orchestra by Ms. Thomas, called EOS – Goddess of the Dawn. It has a rich…
Doug MacLeod on BBC Radio!
Listen to BBC Radio Norfolk’s program from Thursday, July 28 for an interview with RR artist Doug MacLeod: Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCD Amazon Apple Music Doug MacLeod: There’s A Time HDCDHRxHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Happy 198th Birthday To Emily Brontë!
Today through the weekend we’re celebrating Emily Brontë’s 198th Birthday! You can join in the celebration by entering a Wuthering Heights giveaway hosted by Naxos of America! The giveaway runs from today through August 1 at 11:59pm CST and winners receive a copy of the recording as well as the audiobook version of Wuthering Heights courtesy of Naxos Audiobooks! Enter Today
Dawn To Dust is a Sonic Spectacular!
“Prediction: The visionary new music, system-testing percussion, and virtual rainbow of colors that distinguish Dawn to Dust, the latest hybrid SACD in Reference Recordings’ Fresh! series, guarantee that it will become a hit among music-loving audiophiles who dare play tracks beyond 3 minutes in length. The inventive genius that courses through the recording’s three compositions—Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) by Nico Muhly, 34; Switch by Andrew Norman, 37; and Eos (Goddess of the Dawn), a…
Remembering Marni Nixon
We were saddened to hear the passing of Marni Nixon who was such a great woman with a LONG career. After doing three recordings with RR, she always kept in touch. Below are a few articles and interviews that give a great look at this remarkable woman and artist: NPR New York Times Forward Bruce Duffie Interview
MusicWeb International Rave for Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights!
MusicWeb International offers an in-depth rave review for the Florentine Opera Company’s recording of Carlisle Floyd: Wuthering Heights: “Floyd’s opera is both spectral and emotionally intense; there’s nothing of the musical about it. The writing has about it a florid brilliance entirely in keeping with the themes of love in vain, betrayal and striving for the unattainable. It is by no means a chamber opera and the emotions are played out on a grand scale…
Celebrate Emily Brontë’s 198th Birthday!
Join us in celebrating Emily Brontë’s 198th birthday on July 30th by entering a Wuthering Heights giveaway hosted by Naxos of America! The giveaway runs from today through August 1 at 11:59pm CST and winners receive a copy of the recording as well as the audiobook version of Wuthering Heights courtesy of Naxos Audiobooks! Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes ArkivMusic
Fiona Boyes and Lloyd Jones In Concert
Fiona Boyes and Lloyd Jones Together In Concert! Highway 99 Blues Club Sunday, August 14 – 7pmSeattle Washington Tickets and Information Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music SpotifyVote For Fiona in the Blues Blast Magazine Awards! Lloyd Jones: Doin’ What It Takes Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Pittsburgh Symphony LIVE from Berlin Now on YouTube!
The Pittsburgh Symphony with Music Director Manfred Honeck conducting plays Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony and No. 6 and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2 with Daniil Trifonov soloist. From the Philharmonie in Berlin June May 22 2016. Interviews include Manfred Honeck, Principal Contrabassoon James Rodgers, Trombone James Nova, Violinist Alison Fujito and President and CEO Melia Tourangeau with Jim Cunningham Artistic Director Jim Cunningham, host. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74…
Setting Up for The Dallas Winds!
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”!
Wuthering Heights Is Carlisle Floyd At His Prime
Planet Hugill celebrates Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights “on disc at last.” “This new recording from Reference Recordings finally brings Carlisle Floyd’s 1958 opera Wuthering Heights to disc. … Floyd’s music is intense and dramatic, in a form of continuous arioso as the libretto is more poetic prose than poetry, with individual speeches standing out aria-like, including the one which gave rise to the piece in the first place. … The recording was made at a…
Guitarra Reviews Fiona Boyes
Argentina’s Guitarra Magazine reviews Fiona Boyes Box & Dice: “Recently, the guitarist, singer-songwriter Fiona Boyes was nominated for USA 2016 Blues Music Awards, and Box & Dice won best blues album at The Victoria Age Music Awards. On this album, fans of country or acoustic blues find the guitar and hoarse voice of this Australian creating a healthy mix of traditional with contemporary.” —Guitarra Vote For Fiona in the Blues Blast Magazine Awards! Fiona Boyes:…
Macallè Blues Reviews Box & Dice
Italian blues outlet, Macallè Blues reviews Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice: “In recent years Australia has expressed some real blues talent…One of these talents is surely Fiona Boyes.… Box & Dice represents an instrumental experiment that, besides her usual guitars, let some handicraft cigar-box guitars (built by Shayne Soall from Oz Blues and Roots Music Store) step out front. Boyes plays those guitars using bottlenecks drawn by different small liqueur bottles. And, above all, she…
Fiona Boyes on the Black on Blues Podcast
Fiona Boyes is featured on the Black on Blues podcast! Listen Now: Your browser does not support the audio element. Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
Pittsburgh Symphony Tchaikovsky/Dvořák “Once In A Lifetime”
“I want to suggest listening to what I believe to be a one in a lifetime audition: the newest record of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its music director, the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck.… However, more than the high technical quality, I was deeply moved by the artistic quality when performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. It is one of my favourite works, one I have listened to again and again performed by various orchestras. It…