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Dallas Wind Symphony – Behind the Scenes
Today we have a very cool feature. We are going to give you a look at a short clip of behind-the-scenes footage from the Dallas Wind Symphony Lincolnshire Posy recording session. This video is only one of 5, we will post a couple more here throughout the rest of this week. But, for all of the videos, you will have to go to our new YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/ReferenceRecordings Here You Go!
Dallas Wind Symphony Grainger Review
Here is another great review from Minnesota Public Radio that includes the audio. This time the review is of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s album Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Wind Band by Percy Grainger. We hope you enjoy. by Valerie Kahler, Minnesota Public Radio Percy Grainger’s compositions are mainstays of college and high school band concerts, but on this new release they’re given loving treatment by a professional group intent on restoring Grainger’s original sound and…
Minnesota Public Radio Review of West of the Sun by Joel Fan
Greetings Readers: We wanted to share this review with you of Joel Fan’s latest album West of the Sun from Minnesota Public Radio. We are including the full audio segment and the written review. We hope you enjoy the review, and if you still haven’t purchased your own copy of this album you are truly missing out! by Julie Amacher, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — Joel Fan’s new disc explores music by North…
Britten’s Orchestra
Here is a little sneak peak of information that will be included about the new Kansas City Symphony album Britten’s Orchestra to be released in November!: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a virtuoso orchestral spectacular, which RR has wanted to record for many years. Sinfonia da Requiem is widely considered to be Britten’s finest orchestral inspiration, full of kaleidoscopic color and wide dynamic range. The music of Peter Grimes, Britten’s operatic masterpiece,…
Michael Stern
Greetings Readers! In anticipation of the upcoming release of the Kansas City Symphony’s album Britten’s Orchestra, we would like to introduce you to their conductor Michael Stern. The following is his bio as posted on their website. Conductor Michael Stern is in his fourth season as music director of the Kansas City Symphony, hailed for its remarkable artistic growth and development since his tenure began. Stern and the Symphony concluded their first year together by…
UltraAudio – Audiophile Help
The following is an excerpt from an article found on ultraaudio.com from August 1. XLO/Reference Recordings Test & Burn-in CD It’s amazing how many of us fail to connect equipment properly. How many more do not read manufacturers’ instructions until a problem is encountered? For these and many other very sound technical reasons, the XLO/Reference Recordings Test & Burn-in CD (Reference RX-1000) should be an integral part of every audiophile’s gear. There are many similar…
Kansas City Symphony New Album Information
Here is some new and specific information about the upcoming (release date still pending) album from the Kansas City Symphony, including the album name! Britten’s Orchestra, RR-120 HDCD 1. The Repertoire:The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a virtuoso orchestral spectacular, which RR has wanted to record for many years. Sinfonia da Requiem is widely considered to be Britten’s finest orchestral inspiration, and is full of color and wide dynamic range. The music of…
Facebook Music Player
Sorry, this is a short posting today. But, We wanted to let our readers know that we are trying out a new music player on our Facebook page. Please check it out and leave a comment to what you think of it. There are a lot of applications that do this, so we are trying to figure out what will be the easiest for those interested in hearing some samples of our music. Let us…
HRx – An older, but relevant review
Reference Recordings Aims At Your Hard Drive By Jason Victor Serinus January 5, 2008 — Reference Recordings, the Bay Area-based audiophile label founded by John T. “Tam” Henderson in 1976, has adopted a unique approach to computer and music server playback. Later this month, the company will begin to market what they call “HRx” discs. Incompatible with conventional optical disc players, these are data discs containing WAV files intended for playback on computer-based music servers.…
More Joel Fan Reviews
Once again, couldn’t help but share some of these reviews for this fantastic album! Here is a review from The Star and they give the album 4 Stars (though not sure out of how many): JOEL FAN West of the Sun (Reference): New Yorker Joel Fan will have managed to squeeze three decades of performance in by the time he turns 40 this summer. The frequent guest of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble won the…
Joel Fan West of the Sun Reviews
Greetings readers! We are pleased to bring you a couple more reviews from the recent Joel Fan release West of the Sun: Music of the Americas! From Classics Today, the album received a 10/10 rating, meaning 10s in both Sound and Artistic Quality! Here is that review: In contrast to Joel Fan’s previous mixed recital for the Reference label (World Keys), West of the Sun focuses on composers of the Americas, stopping short of Canada.…
Kansas City Symphony New Release – Track Listings
As promised, we will now share with you the track listings for the upcoming Kansas City Symphony album on Reference Recordings: Britten Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, op. 33b Britten “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, op. 33a I. Dawn: Lento e tranquilloII. Sunday morning: Allegro spiritosoIII. Moonlight: Andante comodo e rubatoIV. Storm: Presto con fuoco Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, op. 20 I. LacrymosaII. Dies IraeIII. Requiem Aeternum Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,…
Kansas City Symphony New Release – Sneak Peak!
Greetings Fans!!! As promised, you will get a sneak peak at what is going to be on the Kansas City Symphony’s new album with Reference Recordings. But, we aren’t going to indulge too much today. We are going to post here the press release for the pre-recording session concert that the Kansas City Symphony held June 4th. We have blanked out the names of the actual pieces because we will release that information on Monday!…
Kansas City Symphony – New Release
Here on the blog we like to give exciting upcoming information. As many may know last February, Reference Recordings partnered with the Kansas City Symphony to create a number of albums. This fall (2009), the second of those albums will be released. We will not be giving away the title or contents of that album today, but in order to get you excited we want to turn back the pages to last summer’s debut, Tempest!…
Audiophile Audition Review of “West of the Sun” by Joel Fan
Joel Fan, piano – West of the Sun, Music of the Americas – Reference Recordings Fan has created an album with more programming innovation than most such piano recitals. Joel Fan, piano – West of the Sun, Music of the Americas – [TrackList below] Reference Recordings RR-119, 67:17 [Distr. by Allegro] ***** [Release date: Apr. 14, 09]: We liked Joel Fan’s previous CD for Reference Recordings – World Keys – and similarly find this new…