Fanfare Declares Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 “Not To Be Missed”
Fanfare Magazine’s Henry Fogel names Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff: Five Pieces a “Not To Be Missed” recording: “this has to be ranked in the upper echelon of the [Tchaikovsky Fifth] discography… [In the Schulhoff] Honeck …[and] Thomas Ille… have done a superb job in creating a version that deserves a place in the orchestral repertoire.… This is a hugely successful recording.” —Henry Fogel, Fanfare See the full review…
International Piano Reviews The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
The June 2023 issue of International Piano has a rave review for Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles, and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s recording of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos: “Garrick Ohlsson’s view of the canon reaffirms this authority as a discerning Beethovenian with noble things to impart. … The freshness of these performances, from the 2022 Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, lies in their open-faced honesty. Gleamingly, they promise us the certainty…
Blues Blast Magazine Announces 2023 Award Nominations
Blues Blast Magazine has announced their 2023 Blues Blast Music Award Nominations and we’re thrilled to share that Reference Recordings artists Doug MacLeod and Jimi Bott have been nominated for multiple awards! Nominations Jimi Bott Doug MacLeod How to Vote Fan voting begins July 1, 2023 and continues until August 18, 2023 at BluesBlastMagazine.com. Voting is free, and and open to anyone. You may only vote one time. If you are not currently a Blues…
Garrick Ohlsson and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos a Gramophone Editor’s Choice
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recordings from Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra are a July 2023 Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice! “whenever [Sir Donald Runnicles] and [Garrick] Ohlsson collaborate, time is never spent in conversation beforehand about tempos, phrasing or other details. They simply begin making music together and thus, in an exercise of intuitive symbiosis, arrive at their joint interpretation. The result, as heard here, is a spacious,…
José Serebrier Wins ARSC Award
It has been my pleasure and honor to have had a lifelong friendship with Jose Serebrier, one of the world’s greatest conductors. Reference Recordings is very proud to have several albums conducted by Maestro Serebrier on our label. His biography, José Serebrier: Portraits of the Maestro, is a fascinating book, be sure to check it out! I just learned it recently received a 2022 “Certificate of Merit” Award for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music…
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos Reviewed in Audiophilia
Anthony Kershaw offers an in-depth review of Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles, and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s recordings of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos in the Audiophilia Magazine: “I’m not sure whose idea it was to record this repertoire, but one of the US’s most interesting pianists with a fine conductor and a superb orchestra made up of top professional players from the US and further afield in an idyllic summer setting, sounds…
HRAudio Gives Four and Half Stars to The Complete Beethoven Concertos
Adrian Quanjer gives Four and half stars for performance and sonics to Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles, and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s recording of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos: “Long-standing giants like Sir David Runnicles and Garrick Ohlsson, don’t have to prove anything anymore. Their extensive and rewarding international careers say it all. No longer dependent on the moods of critics, they can be themselves and, as we may assume, support wholeheartedly the…
Doug MacLeod wins 2023 Blues Music Award!
The Blues Foundation Announced its 44th Annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis on May 11, 2023, and Reference Recordings is thrilled to share that Doug MacLeod was announced as the winner of the 2023 Acoustic Artist Award! Congratulations to Doug MacLeod! Doug MacLeod Recordings on Reference
Colin Anderson Reviews The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
Classical Source editor Colin Anderson has published a rave review on his Colin’s Column site in his “Outstanding” Category for the Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles, and Grand Teton Music Festival’s Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording: “I started at the very end, with Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture, to get a feel for recorded sound and the orchestral playing: both excellent, Sir Donald setting a dignified opening against a bustling allegro, an appreciable entrée to Garrick Ohlsson and the five Piano…
Gramophone Features the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson’s Recording of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
The May 2023 issue of Gramophone Magazine features a must-see four-page feature on the Grand Teton Music Festival and the orchestra’s recording of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with Garrick Ohlsson and Sir Donald Runnicles. See the piece, titled “Climbing Everest in the Rockies” by Thomas May on Page 23! “To perform all five Beethoven piano concertos as a cycle is to ascend one of the repertoire’s proverbial Everest-like peaks. … a winning combination of factors…
Fanfare’s Colin Clarke Adds Bach Aria Soloists to his 2023 Want List
Colin Clarke has added Bach Aria Soloist’s Le Dolce Sirene album to his 2023 Fanfare Magazine “Want List”: “this is a well-considered mix… It is worth taking the pieces in running order as one gets an idea of the variety of sound on offer. After that chamber Messiah, an organ sonata movement by Mendelssohn is heard in a grand performance by Elisa Williams Bickers, but one that retains miraculous clarity. Then it’s back to Handel for…
James Altena Gives Bach Aria Soloists High Praise in Fanfare
Subscribers can find the full review online or in the May/June 2023 issue of Fanfare Magazine
Happy 150th Birthday to Rachmaninoff
Join Reference Recordings in celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birthday (April 1873)! We’re celebrating by recognizing three recordings and offering two of them at 20% off through April 9: Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 Peter Jermihov, Conductor Gloriæ Dei Cantores Richard K. Pugsley, Director Named “The Best Recording” of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 in BBC Music Magazine‘s April 2023 issue, this gorgeous production was recorded, edited and mastered by our own engineering…
Fanfare Interviews Bach Aria Soloists
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Fanfare Magazine‘s James Altena and members of the Bach Aria Soloists. The full interview is available for subscribers online and will be in the May/June 2023 Issue of the Magazine: