A Fun Amazon Review for Elgar/Vaughan Williams
We have good news for Amazon Reviewer David Rowe who left the following Amazon.com review: What a wonderful disc with which to start the year. Superlative Reference Recordings HDCD sound is just the beginning. And to that point I must admit to being extremely disappointed this wasn’t released in SACD as was Kansas City’s other RR recording (of Britten), which is one of the most spectacular SACDs ever made. But, not to worry – amazingly…
RMAF 2013 Wrap-Up
Charles Denler (Portraits of Colorado), Doug MacLeod (There’s A Time), and Lorenz Rychner (Recording Magazine) Last weekend, RR (represented by Jan and Ric Mancuso) joined 170 audio exhibitors in Denver at the 10th annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Held in the Tech Center Marriott, the RR booth in the Evergreen Ballroom was visited by music lovers young and old, including new customers, longtime supporters, industry friends, RR artists, and journalists. RR artist, Doug MacLeod, performed…
RR in RMAF News
After a fantastic weekend (more on our weekend experience soon), everyone in the Audiophile world is still raving about people, equipment, and their time at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest this weekend. Here are a couple of RR-Related tidbits: From Stereophile In the Joseph Audio Room “…the beauty of Reference Recordings’ LP version of Vaughan Williams’ The Wasps confirmed the superiority of both the equipment chain and the Keith Johnson/Sean Martin recording team.” In the ApexAudio…
RMAF 2013 Photos
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RR at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this weekend!
The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel on October 11-13, 2013. Furniture will be removed from over 170 of the hotel’s sleeping rooms and manufacturers will set up complete stereo systems for attendees to audition. You are encouraged to go from room to room, have a seat and casually listen. In fact, feel free to bring your own iPods, discs or records to the show, as most…
New SACD and LP Formats! Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves
Now Available New SACD and LP formats! (Compact disc RR-129 and HR-129 176.4 kHz/24 bit DVD-R also available.) Kansas City Symphony Orchestra Michael Stern, conductor Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves RR-129SACD This magnificent symphonic recording with the Kansas City Symphony now also available as a multi-channel SACD hybrid! The disc contains both 5.1 surround and stereo SACD layers, as well as a stereo compact disc layer made with the HDCD process for…
The Arts Desk Reviews Bizet
Graham Rickson of theartsdesk.com has a great new review for our San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Bizet release: “So it makes perfect sense for a crack ballet orchestra to record the work and Martin West’s San Francisco Ballet forces play the work beautifully; this disc oozes frothy joie de vivre. Musically there’s little to surprise, but the symphony does it what it does with swaggering confidence and bucketloads of brio. It’s a work which will raise…
Portraits of Colorado Composer Charles Denler
Charles Denler The music of American composer and pianist, Charles Denler, can be heard all over the world. With nearly 2000 concerts and 200 film and television scores to his credit, Charles Denler’s multiple Emmy Award-winning music can be heard all over the world. His ability to work in a wide variety of genres, and his collaborative work sense, has made him a top choice among producers and directors. Charles’ classical training and strong proficiency…
Bizet’s Symphony in C Major
Continuing our “inside” look at the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s Bizet recording, we turn to Victor and Marina Ledin’s liner notes on the Symphony in C Major. Bizet’s Symphony in C Major In 1855, at 17, while at the Paris Conservatoire, Bizet composed Symphony in C Major as a school exercise. The work shows traces of Schubert and Rossini, revealing the individuality of a man with a rare gift for melody and an instinctive grasp…
Charles Denler Talks Portraits of Colorado
PORTRAITS OF COLORADO, An American Symphony No. 1 is written in ten shorter movements to meet the needs of today’s contemporary audience. Our generation of music lovers are accustomed to playlists filled with shorter pieces of music, generally three to four minutes long. Lengthy symphonic movements often do not fit into modern playlists. Even though the symphony is divided into shorter movements, it is written in a traditional manner with theme and variation woven throughout…
An Inside Look at Bizet
An “inside” look at our San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Bizet recording courtesy of the liner notes by Victor and Marina Ledin. Bizet Bizet lived 36 years, dying three months after the production of Carmen. Biographers recount that having walked the streets of Paris after the first night his opera premiered, Bizet mourned the failure of his Carmen, so disillusioned, he retired to his home to die of a broken heart. Not quite true. Carmen received…
Atlanta Examiner Reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time
The “Atlanta Live Music Examiner” reviews a host of new Blues releases on Examiner.com, including our latest Doug MacLeod release, There’s A Time: “With a soothing guitar and soulful voice, McLeod effortlessly rolls through a collection of original tunes that is pleasant to the ear.… From the opening track…there is something familiar about this record. I swear I had heard many of these tunes before but they are all McLeod originals. He plays and sings…
Dance Commentary Reviews New Bizet Recording
Noted Bay Area dance critic, Heather Desaulniers, offered a wonderful review of our first San Francisco Ballet Orchestra recording (Delibes), and has just published a new review for the latest Bizet recording on her Dance Commentary blog: “Thanks to Reference Recordings, Bay Area balletomanes can visit the ballet anytime they wish, even in the off-season. Their most recent release features three scores by Georges Bizet – Symphony in C, Jeux d’Enfants and Variations Chromatiques –…
Portraits of Colorado Conductor Scott O’Neil
Meet Portraits of Colorado Conductor, Scott O’Neil Photo Credit: Michael Martin Photography/AEG Live Currently in his eighth season with the Colorado Symphony (third as resident conductor), Scott O’Neil maintains a strong commitment to making music of the highest quality accessible to young audiences. He served as associate conductor for the Utah Symphony, which he joined in August 2000. O’Neil has guest conducted the Houston Symphony, Houston Youth Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, Tulsa…
SA-CD net reviews Elgar/Vaughan Williams SACD
SA-CD.net has a review of next month’s new SACD release of our latest Kansas City Symphony recording: “Those who, like me, already have the superb CD/HDCD of this disc will discover an even greater depth of sound and stunning realism from this 5.1 channel hybrid SACD release…the surround channels have been used purely to capture the warm ambience of the recording venue – Community of Christ Auditorium, Independence, Missouri. “The delightful illustrations in the accompanying…