The ArtsDesk Praises Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams
Kansas City Symphony’s Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording continues to bring in rave reviews! The ArtsDesk‘s Graham Rickson has a new review and places the recording in his end-of-year Top 10 list: “This is an exceptional disc in so many ways. The Kansas orchestral playing is flamboyant, assured, but always affectionate, and the recorded sound is possibly the most realistic I’ve come across. “The engineering really does serve the music, lending additional colour and warmth to Michael…
Composer Pedro Sanjuán — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Pedro Sanjuán Although Segovia was not yet famous in Europe prior to 1924, in Spain and in Latin-American countries he was already considered the ‘king of the guitar’, so itis no surprise that, after Moreno-Torroba, other Spanish composers committed themselves to writing new pieces for the guitar in the years 1919-1923. Amongst the…
Composer Gaspar Cassadó — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Gaspar Cassadó The great cellist Gaspar Cassadó was a friend and keen follower of Segovia, dating back to his youth, and during the course of his brief but inspired activity as a composer, took up the guitar. He celebrated special moments and events with pieces that he wrote for the instrument and which…
The Audio Beat reviews There’s A Time LP
The Audio Beat has published a host of new Blues vinyl reviews, and Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP gets some high marks: “This is the first blues release by Reference Recordings, and it’s quite an accomplishment for a freshman effort. I’ve heard most of Reference Recordings’ LPs over the years, and for my money this is the best-sounding yet. Forget the ones on your personal list; I’ll wager that you will find the sound…
Composer Jaume Pahissa — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Jaume Pahissa In his autobiography, the great guitarist writes a few words about the Catalan composer Jaume Pahissa and states that “he was not interested in composing for solo instruments or chamber ensembles, but only for large orchestral formations.” Segovia does not refer, even briefly, to the fact that in July 1919 Pahissa…
Blues Blast Music Awards Nominates Doug MacLeod!
The Blues Blast Music Award Nominations Have Been Announced! In early May, a group of Blues music industry professionals including music critics, journalists, festival promoters, music venue managers, musicians and other Blues music industry professionals nominated the best of 2013 Blues music in ten categories. Voting to determine the winners begins July 15, 2013 and continues until August 31st, 2013 on TheBluesBlast.com Doug MacLeod has been nominated for the following Blues Blast Awards: Song Of…
Touching Base after latest Kansas City Recording Sessions
“Prof” Keith Johnson The Reference Recording team is back from Kansas City after a wonderful pair of recording sessions in the new Kansas City Helzburg Hall! The first recording was what’s sure to be another special one with the Kansas City Symphony featuring the music of Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor “Organ”, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, and La muse et le poete for Violin, Cello and…
Doug MacLeod on KPFT
Earlier this week we shared the audio from Doug MacLeod’s appearance on KPFT. Now you can watch the video via our new playlist. Check out all four videos below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod Visits Quality Record Pressings
As you may know, all of our new Reference Mastercuts LPs are pressed at Quality Record Pressings in Salina, Kansas. Well, Doug MacLeod recently took a visit and signed some copies of the LPs and took a tour of the facilities. Watch the video below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces
Click to the 2:00:00 mark to hear Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces: Your Browser doesn’t support this stream, so listen HERE Support this station by visiting their website! Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Legendary Producer Thomas Frost talks Andrés Segovia and Roberto Moronn Pérez
As RR Executive Director Marcia Martin noted in the liner notes, we were extremely happy to have legendary multi-Grammy winning producer Thomas Frost bring us the wonderful Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers recording by Roberto Moronn Pérez. Read why Mr. Frost was as excited about it as we are: I first met Roberto Moronn Pérez in Malibu, California on May 31, 2OO6. He was one of fifteen competitors in the 2OO6 Christopher Parkening International Guitar…
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Conversation with Keith O. Johnson
Recently, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra hired our own “Prof” Keith O. Johnson to record their orchestra for their own “DSO Live” label. During his time the Dallas Symphony’s own Chris Shull interviewed Keith, and published a wonderful interview with him. Here is the full article with the permission of the Dallas Symphony and Chris Shull: By Chris Shull It’s easy to think making a recording is a passive process. You set up a microphone or…
New Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Review from ClassicalNet
Classical Net Review has a new posting for our Minnesota Orchestra Rachmaninoff release that is now available on LP: “For superior sound quality and orchestral execution, there is perhaps no more consistent series of discs than the Minnesota/Oue partnership on Reference from the early part of the previous decade. Oue and the orchestra were adventurous and clearly challenged each other. From Copland to Ravel, they revisited the orchestra’s rich traditions and explored them anew in…
Blues Blast Magazine Features Lloyd Jones Doin’ What it Takes
The latest Blues Blast Magazine publication features a wonderful new review for Fresh! From Reference Recordings artist Lloyd Jones’ Doin’ What It Takes CD: “In this new millennium, Portland, OR roots artist Jones is “Doin’ What it Takes” to keep the blues alive and his fans loyal…On this latest release, ten high-energy blues rock and roots songs bolster his already formidable reputation. Purists may frown at Jones’ mixing of genres, but those searching for powerhouse,…
HP Soundings says to Savor Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time CD
The new Harry Pearson publication hp Soundings has a slew of “New Blues Recordings To Savor” on its site, and taps Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time recording as “Soul music, through and through.” “Macleod has recently rambled over to Reference Recordings and through their Fresh! Label imprint recorded his 2011 Brand New Eyes (‘Brand’)[FR 703] and now, on the Reference Recordings label, has recorded There’s A Time (‘Time’)[Reference Recording 130]. Both titles are superb…