WGTE Public Media in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan hosted Cecilia Duarte to discuss her new Reencuentros album in a fantastic interview with host Brad Cresswell:
Fiona Boyes is putting together the stories behind the songs from her new Voodoo in the Shadows recording. Here she gives the back-story to “Little Things”: “In the midst of the busy holiday season, remember – sometimes it’s the ‘Little Things’ that count! Here’s instalment #5 of the ‘Voodoo in the Shadows – About the songs’ series, each giving a little glimpse into the stories behind the songs on the new album. ‘Little Things’ is one for the…
Fiona Boyes is putting together the stories behind the songs from her new Voodoo in the Shadows recording. Here she discusses “What You Put On Me”: a romping slide cigarbox boogie with Johnny Sansone on harmonica. Previous Videos: Voodoo in the Shadows Fiona Boyes is Australia’s most successful and celebrated international Blues artist. Her previous Reference Recordings release, Professin’ The Blues, received the 2017 Acoustic Album of the Year award from Blues Blast Magazine. The…
Nadia Shpachenko was recently presented with the Provost Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative activities by her university, Cal Poly Pomona, which also produced this wonderful new interview video with her about her recording projects: Nadia Shpachenko World Premieres Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6…
Enjoy an on-demand look at the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 at the Lucerne Festival: Get the Recording Order Now Music HDTracks NativeDSD Spotify
Enjoy a look at Doug MacLeod performing the title track from the new Break The Chain release at a recent concert in Texas: Order Now Doug MacLeod: Break The Chain In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. Recorded by Reference’s Grammy-winning engineer ‘Prof.’ Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain brings twelve new MacLeod…
Fiona Boyes plays “Love Changing Blues” from her new Professin’ The Blues recording on Blues Radio International: Professin’ The Blues Fiona Boyes “…our heroine perpetuates the blues legacy with a brave attitude and amazing conviction.” —Vicente Zumel, La Hora Del Blues RR.com Amazon iTunes/Apple Music Spotify Professin’ The Blues proclaims Fiona Boyes passion for the Blues as she celebrates the unique contribution of recording and mastering engineer ‘Professor’ Keith O. Johnson, Reference Recording’s Technical Director…
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…
Manfred Conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6! Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 from Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Vimeo. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 Dvořák: Rusalka Fantasy (arr. Honeck/Ille) Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck, Music DirectorOut May 13, 2016FR-720 Pre-Order Now!
Composer Nico MuhlyPhoto: Ana Cuba The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Nico Muhly’s work Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) is a sequence of five episodes describing, in some way, an element of Utah’s natural environment, as well as the ways in which humans interact with it. The first part (Landform) begins with a texture of strings, interrupted by forceful…
A look ahead to our upcoming March release, Wine Dark Sea, featuring Jerry Junkin conducting The University of Texas Wind Ensemble:
Enjoy video footage from True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s 2011 rehearsals with composer Stephen Paulus before the world premiere of Prayers and Remembrances: Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus World Premiere Recordings! Choral Music by beloved composer Stephen Paulus Far In The Heavens is comprised of recently composed and previously unrecorded works by Stephen Paulus, including two works that were commissioned and premiered by True Concord Voices & Orchestra: The Incomprehensible for…
Start your weekend with this video from the Blues Music Awards courtesy of Blues Radio International: Doug MacLeod: Too Many Misses Buy Exactly Like This on CD and VINYL Today!
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Nadia Shpachenko performs Adam Schoenberg’s “Miró’s World” from “Picture Etudes for Solo Piano” Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 Nadia Shpachenko World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers. Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion; with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics The new works were composed as a celebration of a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the…