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…
Dawn To Dust World Premieres of Three Works Commissioned by the Utah Symphony Utah Symphony Thierry Fischer, Music Director Pre-Order on Amazon Today First Listen: DAWN TO DUST contains live recordings of three significant and adventurous works by leading composers Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman. World-renowned percussionist Colin Currie performs on Andrew Norman’s “Switch.” The Utah Symphony, celebrating its 75th anniversary in the 2015-16 season, is one of America’s major symphony orchestras…
Wine Dark Sea is streaming now on YouTube Music: Wine Dark Sea Jerry Junkin, conductor The University of Texas Wind Ensemble Nathan Williams Purchase Today: ReferenceRecordings.com Amazon ArkivMusic Apple Music Spotify
BEETHOVEN: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck Now Available for Pre-Order! Amazon.comiTunes The Authoritative New Beethoven Interpretation From Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, In Superb Audiophile Sound!
Preview next month’s Box & Dice release from Fiona Boyes with our new YouTube Playlist featuring live performances of works on the album: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or…
Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus is now on YouTube Music! Listen here: Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify
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…
FRESH! From Reference Recordings artist Fiona Boyes plays Walkin’ Round Money at the 2014 Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or electric guitars, her mostly…
Get a first look and listen to new FRESH! From Reference Recordings artist Fiona Boyes: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or electric guitars, her mostly original repertoire is like…
Watch a preview of our upcoming FRESH! From Reference Recordings release, Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013 and Pre-Order it on Amazon today!
Enjoy a sample from The Curios’ song Cherries on the Ground from their Fresh! From Reference Recordings release, “Pillow Book.” Get your copy of Pillow Book today!
Joel Fan is now on YouTube! He has a whole YouTube Channel in fact! You can find it by clicking the last link, or find them all in our Joel Fan playlist on the Reference Recordings YouTube Channel. Here is a video of Joel playing a Margaret Bonds’ piece that can be found on his latest release from Reference Recordings:
Here is another video of behind-the-scenes footage from the Lincolnshire Posy recording sessions! Remember there is still a contest going on Twitter and we have yet to have a winner. We also put up some hints to make it easier. Here is the video:
Here is another video from the Dallas Wind Symphony recording sessions. We apologize for the time it took to get it uploaded, and apologize for the brief release of this video in a super low-quality. For a chance to win this album follow us on Twitter and participate in our Trivia Contest! Here it is: Remember to visit our YouTube Channel!
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!
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit
Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)