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Рахма́нинов Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Music: Jeux d'Enfants: XII. Galop: Le Bal (The Ball)
Composer: Georges Bizet
Artist: San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Reference Recordings RR-131

Georges Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants: XII. Galop: Le Bal (The Ball)

Rhapsody (Rachmaninoff)

Kissin plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18

Another collaboration with the fine musician (and friend!) Fivos.

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Ithaka (collaboration with Fivos Valachis)

Rachmaninoff Sonata Op. 36 3. Mov. Terhi Dostal

Rachmaninoff Sonata Op. 36 2. Mov. Terhi Dostal

Rachmaninoff Sonata Op. 36 1. Mov. Terhi Dostal

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Lento ( Vocalise in E flat minor Op.34 n°14 )

Music: “Allegro” from Symphony No. 6 in G minor
Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
Artist: Jan Kraybill
Album: Organ Polychrome: The French School
Instrument: The Julia Irene Kauffman Organ, Casavant Freres Op. 3875, 2011
Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

Premiere Solo Recording - The Julia Irene Kauffman Organ, Casavant Freres Opus 3875, 2011 - This program of French masterworks was designed to showcase all the colors and nuances of this outstanding new instrument. Florent Schmitt: Prière (Prelude in G minor), Op.11 (1899). Gorgeous HDCD sonics by Grammy-winning engineer Keith Johnson will thrill organ music lovers and audiophiles of all persuasions, especially those with powerful subwoofers!

Reference Recordings is proud to offer these brilliant performances by the organist who knows this instrument best, Jan Kraybill. She regularly plays and oversees the care of the three largest pipe organs in the Kansas City metro area: the Community of Christ Auditorium's 113-rank Aeolian-Skinner (installed in 1959) and Temple's 102-rank Casavant (1993), and the 102-rank Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant (2011) at the Kauffman Center's Helzberg Hall.

At the Kauffman Center, she performs and hosts guest organists in both solo and collaborative musical events, including regular appearances with a major tenant of the Center, the Kansas City Symphony and Chorus. As a junior in high school in Colby, Kansas, Jan Kraybill performed her first European piano recital in Andover, England. She earned education and piano performance degrees from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, and her doctorate in organ performance is from the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2010 she earned the Fellow certificate from the American Guild of Organists, the highest certification available for organists. Dr. Kraybill maintains an active concert career, having appeared as a soloist and collaborative artist throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, South Korea, and Tahiti; she has been featured at regional and national conventions of the AGO and other musicians'
organizations. She has recorded three solo CDs on Community of Christ's instruments, and this disc is the first on the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant.

ORGAN POLYCHROME — Widor: Allegro from Symphony No. 6 in G minor

Music: Valse-Caprice in A-flat Major, Op. 76 ("Wedding Cake")
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Artists: Joel Fan, piano; Northwest Sinfonietta; Christophe Chagnard, director
Album: Joel Fan: Dances for Piano and Orchestra

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Pianist Joel Fan is one of the most dynamic and accomplished musicians performing before the public today! He is consistently acclaimed for his recitals, recordings, and appearances with orchestras throughout the world. His concerts attract a wide range of audiences, as he has eagerly embraced traditional piano literature as well as an eclectic range of repertoire, including new music commissioned especially for him, world music, and his own transcriptions. Joel Fan is recognized for his work with cellist Yo-Yo Ma as a member of the Silk Road Ensemble, with performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and on the television programs Good Morning America and Late Night with David Letterman. Fan has also collaborated with numerous other ensembles, including the Shanghai Quartet, Imani Winds, and A Far Cry. Mr. Fan's engaging personality, technical assurance, lyricism, and sheer musicality win over audiences wherever he performs. This release follows two outstanding solo albums on Reference Recordings: RR-106 World Keys and RR-119 West of the Sun.

This CD is Northwest Sinfonietta’s first release with Reference Recordings, and to quote them: they are “thrilled and honored with their collaboration with long-time partner and phenomenal pianist Joel Fan.”  

Northwest Sinfonietta, under the leadership of Founding Music Director Christophe Chagnard, is a vital part of the Pacific Northwest cultural scene and is recognized for its extraordinary performances, innovative programming and collaborations.

Since its first performance in December 1991 honoring the bicentennial  of Mozart’s death, Northwest Sinfonietta has held a unique place as the region’s only professional chamber orchestra. In 2012 and 2013, Chagnard led the orchestra on tours to Cuba as only the third professional American orchestra to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution.  After 24 years at the helm, Maestro Chagnard will step down in 2015. Northwest Sinfonietta will become the fourth professional chamber orchestra in the world to adopt its new Artistic Partner Leadership model. Northwest Sinfonietta is excited for the time of transition and growth and will celebrate its 25th season—and Mozart’s 250th birthday—with an electrifying mix of special guest artists and new leadership.

----TRACK LISTING
1  Gabriel Pierné: Fantaisie-Ballet, Op. 6  11:33
2  Ricardo Castro Herrera: Vals Capricho, Op. 1  7:57
3  Fryderyk Chopin: Krakowiak in F Major, Op. 14  13:57
4  Camille Saint-Saëns: 
Valse-Caprice in A-flat Major (“Wedding Cake”), Op. 76  6:20
5  Carl Maria von Weber / Liszt: Polonaise Brillante, Op. 72 (S.367)  9:53
6  Louis Moreau Gottschalk / Kay: Grand Tarantelle, Op. 67   8:09
7  Charles Wakefield Cadman: 
Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras (Fantasy for Orchestra with Piano)  11:08
Northwest Sinfonietta
Christophe Chagnard, Music Director


Saint-Saëns: Valse-Caprice in A-flat Major ("Wedding Cake"), Op. 76

Music: “Picture Etudes” for Solo Piano: Three Pierrots
Composer: Adam Schoenberg
Artist: Nadia Shpachenko
Album: Woman at the New Piano: American Music of 2013
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Street Date: November 11, 2014

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World Premiere recordings of new works for piano, chamber instruments and electronics from 4 notable modern composers: Tom Flaherty, James Matheson, Adam Schoenberg, and Peter Yates

Featuring Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman: piano, percussion;
with Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics

This innovative project of new compositions brings together piano repertoire representing the diversity of today’s American classical music. With sounds and textures both new and familiar, both tumultuous and contemplative, all the pieces touch on themes of transformation, of resonances across time, and of cycles of rebirth. The four composers present a snapshot of the many facets of piano music in 2013, the beginning of a new era of pianism.

Steinway Artist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman has performed extensively in solo recitals and with orchestras in major venues across North America, Europe and Asia. Described by critics as a "truly inspiring and brilliant pianist... spellbinding in sensitivity and mastery of technique," Nadia enjoys bringing into the world things that are outside the box – powerful pieces that often possess unusual sonic qualities or instrumentation. Nadia’s concert highlights include solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as numerous appearances as a soloist with orchestras in Europe and the Americas. An enthusiastic promoter of contemporary music, she has been chosen to give world and national premieres of more than 50 works by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Tom Flaherty, Annie Gosfield, Leon Kirchner, Amy Kirsten, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, Adam Schoenberg, Lewis Spratlan, Iannis Xenakis, Peter Yates, and others. Winner of more than a dozen piano competitions, Nadia currently serves on the faculties of Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Graduate Universities.

This album is produced by six-time GRAMMY® nominees Marina and Victor Ledin, engineered and edited by the uncompromising and innovative engineer, Barry Werger-Gottesman. Recorded at Pomona College, Claremont, California, July 11-14, 2013

FRESH! is part of Reference Recordings’ mission to encourage new artists and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally.

Adam Schoenberg: Picture Etudes for Solo Piano: Three Pierrots

Music: Excerpts from “Nothin' 'Bout Me”, “IONO”, and “She Lies Herself to Sleep”
Artist: Robert Moore
Album: Outta My Soul
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Street Date: November 11, 2014

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Outta My Soul leaves one moved in head, heart, hand and hind...” —Tim DuRoche

New to our Fresh! series is Robert Moore, jazz vocalist, composer, trumpet and harmonica player based in Portland. He has evolved a sound uniquely his own, mixing his Southern roots, influences of soul and gospel into his own distinct interpretations of bebop and swinging jazz.

Outta My Soul showcases six originals and six compositions from diverse writers including Frank Loesser, Sting, Gene Ammons and King Pleasure — one instrumental and eleven vocals from delicate to scat to blues proclamation. There’s even a Ken Nordine-esque spoken ‘word jazz’ number.

Produced by Robert and recorded in high-res digital by innovative engineer Bob Stark, the album combines creative arrangements and outstanding performances by many of Portland's best musicians in a wide variety of settings from two to twelve.

Moore started his singing career in a Southern Baptist church, and that early heartfelt gospel truth can still be heard in the soulful delivery of his music. 

After stints as a public schools music teacher, he began his performance career, settling in Birmingham, Alabama. After 25 years there, he moved his scene to Portland, Oregon, finding a home and a following among the knowing jazz fans of that musically sophisticated city. 

His music has steadily grown in depth, passion and honesty during his 60 years on the planet. Robert’s well-seasoned, finely-honed chops on vocals, trumpet, and harmonica are bringing joy to a wider audience than ever. 

“Robert Moore is a vintage Jazz hipster and possibly the coolest one in town. A singer, a trumpeter and a composer who has a maverick streak and takes no mess. This honesty and willingness to speak his mind has not endeared him to everyone in the music biz...but it has to music fans.” —Tom D'Antoni, Oregon Music News

FRESH! is part of Reference Recordings’ mission to encourage new artists and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally.


Robert Moore: Outta My Soul

Music: Symphony No. 4 — I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell (excerpt)
Composer: Anton Bruckner
Artists: Manfred Honeck, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra;
Album: Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

FR-713SACD 
Street Date: February 10, 2015

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Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!

Anton Bruckner is known as a deeply religious composer whose Catholic spirituality is prominent in his music, particularly his later symphonies. However, his Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major (“Romantic”) is one of his most secular, most influenced by nature and most popular works. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck offer a bold new interpretation of this great music, breaking Bruckner out of the strictly interpreted box in which he is often placed. Here, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Honeck present the 1878/80 version, the same version that was used for the symphony’s premiere in 1881.

This release is the third in the highly acclaimed “Pittsburgh Live!” series of multi-channel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! Series from Reference Recordings. The previous release, “Dvořák/Janaček” (FR-710SACD), has received a Grammy® nomination along with numerous critical accolades.

For more than 119 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been known for its artistic excellence, a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, and a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region and its citizens. Past music directors have included many of the greats, including Fritz Reiner (1938-1948), William Steinberg (1952-1976), Andre Previn (1976-1984), Lorin Maazel (1984-1996) and Mariss Jansons (1995-2004). This tradition of outstanding international music directors was furthered in fall 2008, when Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

The orchestra has been at the forefront of championing new American works, and gave the first performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” in 1944.  The Pittsburgh Symphony has a long and illustrious history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. As early as 1936, the Pittsburgh Symphony broadcast on the airwaves coast-to-coast and in the late 1970s it made the groundbreaking PBS series “Previn and the Pittsburgh.”  The orchestra has received increased national attention since 1982 through network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International, produced by Classical WQED-FM 89.3, which are made possible by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

This release and the entire “Pittsburgh Live!” series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera and chamber recordings have received more than 70 Grammy nominations and awards! Soundmirror has recorded for every major classical record label, now including Reference Recordings.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 — I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell (excerpt)

Cello - Deryn Cullen
Piano(pre-recorded) - Paul Gardner - http://www.piano-accompaniments.com/

Video

Rachmaninoff Sonata Lento - Allegro - Moderato

Kidz Bop 29

See You Again

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Thomas Gould, violin
Senesino Players

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor: 3. Allegro assai

Choo Choo Hot Fish

Elvis On Velvet

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances – finale 4:28
Eiji Oue / Minnesota Orchestra
from RR-96 Rachmaninoff [with Etudes-Tableaux; Vocalise]

Now available in HDCD, HRx, and on LP from http://referencerecordings.com!


Widely believed to be the finest orchestral recording RR has ever made.

Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the most beloved composers of the twentieth century. His music is redolent of his Russian homeland, and it sings long, lush melodies that define the term "romantic." Everyone who knows and loves his piano concertos will enjoy these lyrical and dynamic works for orchestra. The "Symphonic Dances" in recent years have become one of Rachmaninoff’s most-performed scores. "Vocalise" is one of the great classical melodies, and is hummable by everyone. Grammy® Nominated 2002– Best Engineered Album – Classical; Keith O. Johnson, engineer


Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances - Finale

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.1 Op.1

Track: Sketch On Aksak Rhythm - #10, Pentatonic theme (Turkey)
Composer: A. Adnan Saygun
Artist: Joel Fan, piano
Album: World Keys
Label: Reference Recordings


One of RR’s primary missions is to find and introduce great new artists. We are full of enthusiasm for WORLD KEYS.

World Keys made its debut on the Billboard Classical chart at #3! (July 8 issue). This is the highest chart appearance ever for a Reference Recordings title.

Fan is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and has appeared with the Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as on the television shows Good Morning America and David Letterman.

A native New Yorker (b.1969), Fan studied at the Juilliard School, Harvard University and the Peabody Conservatory. Acclaimed as "a soaring talent" (Los Angeles Times), “superb” (Boston Globe),“extraordinary” (Village Voice), and “a versatile and sensitive pianist” (Washington Post) - Joel Fan combines astounding virtuosity with a rare gift for lyricism.

World Keys: Sketch On Aksak Rhythm

Extracts taken from LSO Live's recording of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Valery Gergiev. Recorded live at the Barbican, 7 - 9 May 2009.

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Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements - ii. Andante con moto

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements - iii. Lento assai

The Legend of the Lion King -  I Just Can't Wait To Be King

04. I Just Can't Wait To Be King

RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances: 3rd Movement Allegro Vivace

Walter Morales, piano
Maria Sensi Sellner, conductor
All University Orchestra
November 20, 2011
Carnegie Music Hall

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 (First Movement)

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I Like To Move It, Move It

Music: Festival Fanfare
Artist: Dallas Wind Symphony
Composer: John Wasson
Album: Horns for the Holidays
Label: Reference Recordings

John Wasson's long musical career began as a pre-schooler, when he started picking out tunes on the family piano. He began arranging music for band when he was still in high school, and went on to become an accomplished arranger, composer, and performer. A Wasson work commissioned by the Dallas Wind Symphony, "Festival Fanfare for Christmas" offers the trumpet section an opportunity to step out with a series of intricate fanfares built from well-known Christmas melodies. Before the piece is over the rest of the brass have joined in, as well as Mary Preston on the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center's magnificent Lay Family organ.

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Horns for the Holidays: Festival Fanfare (Wasson)

Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op.27- 3rd Movement, Adagio.

A cello sextet arrangement of this hauntingly beautiful piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Originally for voice (soprano or tenor) and piano, and published in 1912.

Arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen

Mixed, produced and mastered by Dan Cullen

Rachmaninoff - Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14

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We at RR believe that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself. "Prof." Keith O. Johnson, our chief engineer and Technical Director, is a true audio legend, having designed and patented many innovative products in the professional and consumer fields. The RR Sound comes from his singular methods and equipment, hand-built or extensively modified by him. Microphone techniques range from single-point Blumlein to spaced omnis to complex studio mixes, depending on the musical forces and the performing space involved. Our goal is to recreate the sound of real musicians making music in real space.