Doug MacLeod – All I Have Is My Blues
In honor of Doug MacLeod’s new recording being available for pre-order, here’s a recent video of Doug performing “All I Have Is My Blues” live on WYCE’s “Songs from the Second Floor”: Watch on YouTube ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Pre-Order Today!
Doug MacLeod There’s A Time Available for Pre-Order
‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Also featuring Doug’s longtime bassist Denny Croy and Jimi Bott, one of the most recorded, awarded and respected blues drummers in the world. Doug says: “Making this album was different than any other one I’ve done in the past,” recalls MacLeod about the sessions. “They put Jimi,…
Keith Johnson talks High Resolution
From Keith’s talks at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival: Click to watch on YouTube
ClassicsToday Highly Recommends New Kansas City Symphony Recording
ClassicsToday rates our latest Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording a 9/10 for Artistic Quality and a 10/10 for Sound Quality, while highly recommending the recording even if you have multiple recordings of the repertoire: “Michael Stern and his Kansas City Symphony take to the music as if to the manner born. The Wasps, here given as the complete suite and not just the overture, is delightful. “The finale is extremely impressive, aided by state-of-the-art…
One month left to vote for Doug MacLeod
Time is running out to register with The Blues Foundation and vote for Doug MacLeod to win the Acoustic Artist of the Year award! The Blues Foundation has nominated Doug MacLeod for the 2013 Acoustic Artist of the Year Blues Award. Voting is open until March 1, 2013. Doug MacLeod will be releasing his next recording, There’s A Time, on Reference Recordings in March 2013, and he isn’t the only artist on the coming CD…
Traveling Sonata artists perform Ourkouzounov Sonatine
Take a look at a new video from Traveling Sonata artists Viviana Guzman and Jérémy Jouve performing the Mouvement Bulgare movement (track 11) from Ourkouzonov’s Sonatine hommage à Theodosii Spassov: Watch on YouTube Order RR-128 “Traveling Sonata” Securely from ReferenceRecordings.com!
Las Vegas Review Journal Features Doug MacLeod
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has a fantastic and lengthy new feature on Reference Recordings artist Doug MacLeod: “Doug MacLeod picked up a bass guitar as a teenager because girls liked it. When that attention faded, he took to the microphone. Girls liked that even more. Now that he thinks about it, much of his musical career comes back to the same source. “It’s all about the girls,” says the blues singer… “A lot of people…
ClassicFM raves about our new Kansas City Symphony Recording
The raves keep coming for our new Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording — this time from ClassicFM.com. “Fans of these two key players in the British music sphere will not be disappointed. Every nuance of Elgar’s very particular dynamic markings is captured in this recording from the Kansas City Symphony, conducted by Michael Stern. The strings’ shimmering vibrato, too, brings Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ to life, with an orchestral sound so crisp that…
Audiophile Audition Rates Elgar/Vaughan Williams Five Stars!
Audiophile Audition has given our new Kansas City Symphony release a Five Star rating! Take a look at some quotes from the review: “fine British music of the most colorful sort on top, with superb performances. “The conductor here is the son of famed violinist Isaac Stern, and he has his Kansas City forces in top mettle with a rich and detailed performance of the full-length 20 Enigma variations.” — John Sunier, Audiophile Audition Read…
Classical Candor with High Praise for New Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams CD
Critic, John J. Puccio offers high praise on his Classical Candor blog for our latest Kansas City Symphony recording: “Although one can certainly find a multitude of other available recordings of these pieces, few of them combine the expert performances and audiophile sound we find here. “The Wasps…Maestro Michael Stern and his Kansas City Symphony play with high good spirits. It’s fun stuff, especially the overture, which begins with sounds of a swarm of wasps.…
Coming March 2013 – New Doug MacLeod Recording There’s A Time
Coming March 12, 2013 from Reference Recordings — Doug MacLeod: There’s a Time Produced by Doug MacLeod and Janice Mancuso and recorded at Skywalker Sound, the “baker’s dozen” tracks on There’s a Time showcase his soulful vocals and trademark guitar sound backed by Denny Croy on bass and Jimi Bott on drums. Acclaimed for their quality audio recordings, Reference will also release the new album on a 200-gram vinyl two-LP set, half-speed mastered and pressed…
HP Soundings Raves about New Elgar/Vaughan Williams Recording
The new site from Harry Pearson, HP Soundings has quite the rave for our new Kansas City Symphony recording: “…an elegantly played and most sensitively conducted Elgar, perhaps the best on record yet, and certainly, to these ears, the most moving. “…gorgeous playing and delicately wrought dynamic contrasts – reminiscent of the best analog sound from Reference Recordings. “Do not, I mean this absolutely, let this one pass you by. It is a treat at…
What Others Are Saying About Istomin Mozart Piano Concertos
After the release of Eugene Istomin’s wonderful recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 24 on LP, we’re taking a look back at what Amazon customers have said about other formats of this recording: “historic great recordings of Mozart’s C major (No. 21) and C minor (No. 24) readings…invaluable – and what better way to commemorate the late maestro Istomin’s 70th birthday in 1996 than to record them on state of the art HDCD…
Early Reviews for New Kansas City Symphony Release
Early Reviews for the Newest Kansas City Symphony recording are in – and we’ve got some raves! From Puggingham Palace: “What makes this release an event is that a “provincial” US orchestra is daring to record standard repertoire in glorious sound, challenging many classic recordings with ease… Michael Stern leads the Kansas City Symphony in a sumptuously recorded and generous all English program. “Since the recorded competition (for “The Wasps”) is small but mighty (Boult,…
Viviana Guzman Releases Traveling Sonata Music Video
Traveling Sonata artist Viviana Guzman releases her very own music video for the track Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie: Watch on YouTube You can also watch the 3D version here! Order RR-127 Traveling Sonata securely from ReferenceRecordings.com!