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30th Anniversary Sampler

  • 30th Anniversary Sampler | Various

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Catalog No: RR-908
Composers: Dominick Argento, Erik Satie, Franz Liszt, Gabriela Lena Frank, George Enescu, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Tavener, Ottorino Respighi, Richard Danielpour, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Tielman Susato
Release Year: 2006-10-27
Available Formats: Downloads, HDCD
UPC/EAN: 30911190828

Reference Recordings declares, “It’s party time!”

1976 seems a long time ago, but that’s when RR was born. Remember direct-to-disc LPs? That’s how we started, but being inexperienced and naïve, our first recording project fell short of expectations, and was never released. The label got started for real in 1978 when we connected with Keith Johnson and his home-brew focused-gap tape machine, which provided extraordinary material for Prof. Johnson’s Astounding Sound Show. That’s the short version; you’ll find more information on our About RR webpage. In recent years, RR beta-tested and introduced the High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD®) process, co-invented by Keith Johnson— in our view, the best way to make a digital compact disc.

As Exhibit A, we present RR’s 30th Anniversary Sampler, a singular bargain. For only $9.98, we offer a generous helping of primo tracks from recent RR releases, featuring the Minnesota Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, organ legend Virgil Fox and organ prodigy Felix Hell, great American pianist Gary Graffman, and our latest piano whiz, Joel Fan. All this marvelous music, including several world premieres (and one first release not available elsewhere), is delivered in “Prof.” Johnson’s most dazzling HDCD® sound for your listening pleasure or for system evaluation. Included in the booklet is a catalogue of current RR releases.

On This Recording

  1. Susato: The Dansyere—La Morisque (Jerry Jerry Junkin/University of Texas Wind Ensemble)
  2. Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody #1 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)—FIRST RELEASE
  3. Satie: Gymnopedie #1 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)
  4. Gabriela Lena Frank: Mestizo Waltz (Keith Lockhart/Utah Symphony)
  5. John Tavener: Ikon of Eros—excerpt (Paul Goodwin/Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale)
  6. Liszt: Prelude on B-A-C-H (Felix Hell, organ)
  7. Dominick Argento: For the Angel Israfel (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)
  8. Liszt: Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto (Joel Fan, piano)
  9. Danielpour: An American Requiem—Dies Irae (Carl St.Clair/Pacific Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
  10. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dance #3 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)
  11. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: Concerto Nicolò—finale (Gary Graffman/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski/Minnesota Orchestra)
  12. J. S. Bach: Prelude in D (Virgil Fox, organ)
  13. Respighi: The Pines of Rome—finale (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)

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