⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Across The Board for Saint-Saëns LP!
Order Now The Audio Beat critic, Tim Aucermann, gives our Kansas City Symphony Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Reference Mastercuts LP a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating in Music and Sound: “Reference Recordings (RR) has catered to vinyl-playing audiophiles since the mid-1970s, and label CEO Tam Henderson has a solid grasp of what his finicky audience wants: recordings of acoustic music performed in actual concert spaces captured in holographic sound with a genuine sense of presence. And realistic…
BBC Magazine Features José Serebrier’s Janáček!
Order Now BBC Magazine and BBC Radio 3’s “Building A Library” series features Leoš Janáček’s Taras Bulba and lists our recording with the Czech State Philharmonic, Brno and José Serebrier as a Top Four recording! “José Serebrier’s Taras Bulba on a two-disc collection of Janáček’s orchestral music for the audiophile Reference Recordings label is by a clear distance the finest-sounding available, stunning in the breadth and depth of its spatial perspectives. … Serebrier’s is a…
Professin’ The Blues Now On Vinyl!
Order Now Professin’ The Blues Now Available on 180 gram Vinyl as a 45RPM Double-LP! RM 25-17 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 and audio legend. In her self-penned and illustrated liner notes Fiona makes the declaration, “’Professor’ Keith’s amazing approach to capturing sounds, mostly with his own hand built equipment, is…
Adam Schoenberg Gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Audiophile Audition
Order Now Audiophile Audition gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for “American music by [Adam] Schoenberg wonderfully recorded and performed” by the Kansas City Symphony! “[Adam] Schoenberg has had a productive relationship with the Kansas City Symphony and conductor Michael Stern, so the disc contains some early works by Schoenberg and a work commissioned by the KCS. Schoenberg’s works are increasingly being played by American Symphony Orchestras. He has a unique voice, and audiences seem to be connecting to…
Dick Hyman Honored As A Jazz Master
April 3, 2017, longtime RR artist Dick Hyman will be featured during a concert in honor of the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters, held in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will take place as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Appreciation Month in April. The concert will be streamed live on the NEA, Kennedy Center, and NPR Music websites as well as SiriusXM Channel 67. The 2017…
University of Texas Recording Sessions This Weekend!
The Reference Recordings team is headed to Austin for a double-recording session with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble. See the repertoire below and watch two video previews of Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2! Recording Session Repertoire Album 1 featuring the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and director Jerry F. Junkin John Corigliano, trans. Craig Davis – Concerto for Clarinet Adam Schoenberg – Symphony No. 2 Jennifer Jolley (newly commissioned piece) Stephen…
Audiophile Corner Poll
This week during our recording sessions with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, we will begin the newly launched “Audiophile Corner” on our new website. But we want to know what you’re most interested in – so help us by voting in our new poll: **UPDATE** – Our poll has now closed, thank you everyone who voted!
Aloÿs Fornerod: Prélude
Pre-Order Among the countries where Segovia played most often after his triumphant Paris debut is Switzerland. Since the best place to meet up with compsoers is after recitals, it is in this context that he met the Swiss composer, teacher and critic Aloÿs Fornerod (1890-1965). Coming from a French-speaking heritage, he studied in Lausanne and then in Paris with Vincent d’Indy. On returning to his country, he taught in Lausanne and Fribourg. His only guitar…
Amazon Listeners Rate Kansas City Symphony’s Adam Schoenberg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now Across-the-board ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews for the Kansas City Symphony’s recording of Adam Schoenberg orchestral music! “I took a chance on this disc of new music from Adam Schoenberg (no relation that I can find to the more famous Arnold) for the simple reason I have admired previous recordings from Michael Stern and his excellent Kansas City Symphony.… The first two works presented here, Finding Rothko and American Symphony, are student works, dating from when…
Now Playing on Spotify – The Andrés Segovia Archive
Pre-Order The genesis for guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Andrés Segovia Archive was a collection of pieces recovered in May 2001 at Segovia’s home in Spain. These pieces were dedicated to Segovia or commissioned by him, involving composers from eight countries. They were subsequently published as “The Segovia Archive Series” by Edizione Musicale Bèrben. Pérez researched these newly recovered works and found some pieces that had never been recorded, and those that had were handicapped by…
HRAudio Gives Kansas City’s Adam Schoenberg Recording ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now “This thoroughly enjoyable new release from the audiophile Reference Recordings label features three orchestral works by the young Los Angeles based composer Adam Schoenberg (born 1980). Together they chart a period of his compositional development from the first piece entitled ‘Finding Rothko’ (2006), written while he was still a student studying with John Corigliano, to his ‘American Symphony’ of (2011) and finally his latest orchestral work ‘Picture Studies’ (2012).… Schoenberg’s music is tonal,…
Adam Schoenberg Selected As The Q2 Music Album of the Week
Order Now “[Adam] Schoenberg possesses a directly approachable compositional idiom, marked by a sweet-toothed tonal language, widely spaced chords and generous orchestral textures.… [Finding Rothko]’s four movements – ‘Orange,’ ‘Yellow,’ ‘Red,’ and ‘Wine’ – trace a cinematic sweep, peaking with the fusillade of percussion and brass and the nervous swirl of high winds and strings in ‘Red.’… [With American Symphony], Schoenberg has produced an expertly crafted paean to American-ness. Its most stirring moments come in…
Stereophile Magazine Reviews Adam Schoenberg
Order Now “The three works on the new, vividly recorded Adam Schoenberg hybrid SACD from Reference Recordings, recorded in 24/176.4 surround and played by the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern, are deliciously tonal, filled with color and energy, and irrepressibly optimistic. …Schoenberg simply dazzles and delights. Plus, anyone who writes a modern-day Pictures at an Exhibition is someone every music-loving audiophile will want to check out. …the [American Symphony] is variously colorful, exciting, unabashedly…
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
We were saddened to hear the news on Tuesday that conductor and composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski had passed away. He was a great conductor, composer, and an amazing man and he will be missed. It was a great pleasure to have released two recordings featuring him as both a composer and conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra. The Minnesota Orchestra will hold a celebration of his life on March 28th at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From…
O’s Place Gives Fiona Boyes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Order Now “[Fiona Boyes has] got a meaty voice and a lot of good stories to tell backed by a honky tonk, blues groove. We enjoyed “Old and Stiff”, the swinging “Love Me All The Way” and “Love Changing Blues”. This is a solid, well-recorded (as always with Reference), and entertaining session as Fiona is truly Professin’ The Blues.” —Oscar Groomes, O’s Place Jazz Newsletter See the full review on OsPlaceJazz.com