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President’s Day
It’s Monday, February 15th, and we are celebrating President’s Day here at Reference Recordings! How does one celebrate President’s Day? Marches and parades, of course! So, to help you celebrate, we’re presenting the perfect album for the occasion – Marches I’ve Missed conducted by Frederick Fennell! MARCHES I’VE MISSEDFrederick Fennell / Dallas Wind SymphonyRR-85 HDCD “Fennell catches cool dance rhythms, delicate neatness, and British propriety very nicely. The Dallas Wind Symphony and the engineering are…
Valentine’s Week – Torch Songs
To finish off our Valentine’s Week features, we present Eileen Farrell singing “Torch Songs.” The very name Eileen Farrell summons affection and respect. Without doubt one of the most celebrated and versatile singers of the century, on this disk Miss Farrell is singing music she holds especially dear — classic American popular songs. This important series boasts arrangements by master accompanist Loonis McGlohon, and two albums for full orchestra by the legendary Robert Farnon, “Arranger…
Valentine’s Week – Reveries
To continue our “love”-themed albums, we present “Reveries” featuring the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Eiji Oue. “The Absolute Sound Super Disc List” Relaxing,beloved classics by Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Faurè, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and more, beautifully played by one of America’s great orchestras. A balm for jangled nerves, and excellent music for unwinding and dining! The pace of the human heartbeat so appealed to the composers on this program that they harnessed their music to it. Yet…
Valentine’s Week – Tropic Affair
It’s getting close to Valentine’s Day, so we wanted to share some of our “love” themed back-catalog albums with you. To start, we want to feature our Jazz album “Tropic Affair” featuring master-percussionist Jim Brock. Master percussionist Jim Brock and “Prof.” Johnson have created soundscapes so real, you can step inside the music. Vibrant, steamy and sensual, this contemporary instrumental jazz has more than a touch of the tropics. Produced by GRAMMY® Award winner Don…
2009 Stereophile Records To Die For
Yesterday we came across Stereophile Magazine’s 2009 “Records To Die For” list, and were very happy to see that we had TWO Releases on the list! So, today we thought we’d give you the link to the list, and share some information on the two albums that were included. From John Atkinson: MIKE GARSON: Jazz HatMike Garson, piano; Eric Marienthal, alto sax; Brian Bromberg, acoustic bass; Ralph Humphrey, drumsReference RR-114 (HDCD CD; also available as…
A Great Find – Indiana Public Radio Grainger Podcast
Today we came across something we just had to share. It’s a podcast from the Indiana Public Radio Station (WFIU) from almost a year ago highlighting the then recent release “Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger.” So, we thought we would share the WFIU Classical Music Podcast featuring our recordings and give you the link to the rest of their podcasts. Click “play” to listen to WFIU’s presentation of “Lincolnshire Posy: Music…
HDCD Answers
Recently on Twitter, we got a great question about HDCD formats. So, today we thought we would post some helpful links for using and enjoying our HDCDs. This was the question: “regarding hdcd-is there a reccomended software solution for decoding hdcd content on a pc?” Here is a short answer: It seems that WMP does a partial job of decoding HDCD. WMP will work (only while playing a physical CD), it will not decode from…
We wanted to share this outstanding review from EnjoytheMusic.com of our most recent release Britten’s Orchestra: “Britten’s Orchestra”Benjamin BrittenThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; Sinfonia da Requiem;Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter GrimesReview by Wayne Donnelly This is the second Reference Recordings orchestral release from the Kansas City Symphony, now the label’s “house band” replacing the Minnesota Orchestra. Minnesota Music Director Osmo Vanska is under exclusive contract to the Scandinavian BIS label, which…
Happy Belated Birthday to Mozart
So in honor of Mozart’s birthday yesterday, we thought we would send him warm birthday wishes by featuring our recent HRx release of his piano concertos! The performance quality alone would have made Mr. Mozart happy as it features legendary pianist Eugene Istomin. But the sonic qualities and purity of the performance in an HRx format would have been even more pleasing. So Happy Belated Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! EUGENE ISTOMIN, pianoA legendary pianist! Two…
Benjamin Britten
We came across this video the other day, and thought even for a “trailer” it was worth sharing — especially in light of our recent Britten’s Orchestra release and upcoming SACD release:
An interesting discussion – beyond the Mp3
We wanted to start the conversation here about what our fans think about the announcement of a possible replacement to the Mp3. So, please read this article “Is the World Ready for the Successor of the MP3?” and let us know your thoughts and opinions right here, or via Twitter or Facebook.
“Thinking About Bix”
We had a good response yesterday when we posted the Dick Hyman video, so today we thought we would direct you to some good information about Bix and the “Thinking About Bix” album. From our friends at Audiophile Audition: Dick Hyman, piano solo – Thinking About Bix – Reference Recordings RR-116 (HDCD), 66:26 ***** – John Henry: Bix Beiderbecke of Davenport, Iowa was the first white jazz musician of note. He had minimal instruction on…
Thinking About Bix – Dick Hyman Video
As we let on in our 100th posting, we will be releasing a Jazz compilation entitled “Jazz Kaleidoscope” soon. So, to get you in the mood, we wanted to share a video of our artist Dick Hyman performing “Thinking About BIx” which is track 1 on his latest Reference Recordings release “Thinking About Bix.”
Our CES/T.H.E. Show 2010 reports
Sean Martin and Janice Manusco represented RR at T.H.E. Show, an audio show that takes place concurrent with the CES. While CES covers every home entertainment gadget under the sun including audio, T.H.E. Show focuses solely on high quality audio. This year, T.H.E. Show, moved into a new location, The Flamingo Hotel, just down the strip from the CES high-end audio exhibits in the Venetian. They set-up our booth on Wednesday in a large ballroom…
CES 2010 exhibitions
Thanks to Stereophile Magazine and their CES 2010 blog, we are able to highlight some equipment that used our recordings in their exhibitions. We are honored that they would use our material to show off their goods, so we thought we would let you know who some of them were! Click the title links to read more at Stereophile Magazine!mbl 101 Mk.II loudspeaker Echole, Tidal, BAlabo Tidal Speakers and Ypsilon Amps TAD Heaven