REFERENCE RECORDINGS records and manufactures award winning, ultimate quality CDs, Hybrid SACDs, Reference Mastercuts LPs, and revolutionary HRx discs: 176.4 kHz/24 bit music on DVD audio discs.
Our recordings are also offered as digital downloads through our own website and through multiple sites worldwide, including high resolution PCM downloads and both stereo and surround-sound DSD downloads.
We offer recordings from many of the finest classical, jazz, blues and world music artists. We record most of our releases with our own team, and also license select projects for our FRESH! series.
Our current artist roster includes The Kansas City Symphony, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Utah Symphony Orchestra, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, pianists Joel Fan and Nadia Shpachenko, The Dallas Wind Symphony, blues singer/songwriters Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes, organists Jan Kraybill and Mary Preston, and more. Legacy artists available on RR titles perennially in print include: The Minnesota Orchestra, jazz pianist Dick Hyman, Eileen Farrell, Mike Garson, the original Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik, Red Norvo, The Kronos Quartet, The Chicago Pro Musica, Frederick Fennell, Ruggiero Ricci, Robert Farnon, Jose Serebrier, The Turtle Creek Chorale, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, and many others.
The RR team believes that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself. Our goal is to make your listening experience “The Best Seat in the House”.
Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man / Third Symphony – Vinyl LP
- Reference Mastercuts
- 33 1/3 RPM
Doug MacLeod – Exactly Like This – Vinyl LP
- Sound quality up there with the best vinyl has to offer
- Free booklet download here
Doug Mcleod – Break The Chain – 180g vinyl
- 45RPM 1/2 speed mastered
- 180g Audiophile vinyl
- Now in stock
Exotic Dances from the Opera – 200g Reference Mastercuts Vinyl
New Reference Mastercuts release Exotic Dances from the Opera
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Eije Oue
- Single 331/3 rpm LP
- Half speed mastered
- 200-gram disc from Quality Record Pressings
- Gatefold jacket
- NOW AVAILABLE
Fiona Boyes Professin’ The Blues – Reference Recordings 180g Vinyl
John Williams At The Movies – Half-Speed Mastered, 180g Vinyl
Mephisto & Co. Half-Speed Mastered, 45RPM 200g Vinyl
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue
Jorja Fleezanis, violin solosOne of RR’s all-time favorite recordings is now available for the first time on vinyl!
MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 24 – 200g Reference Mastercuts
- Reference Recordings - Reference Mastercuts
- Mastered by Paul Stubblebine
- 200g Vinyl
- Half-speed Masterred
- 45RPM
- Quality Record Pressings in deluxe gatefold jacket
Nojima Plays Liszt – Reference Recordings 2 x Vinyl LP
Respighi – Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite – The Pines Of Rome – Vinyl LP
- Reference Mastercuts
- 200 Gram Vinyl
- 33 1/3 RPM
Grammy Nominated for Best Engineered Album Classical
Saint-Saëns – Symphony No. 3 “Organ” – Vinyl LP
- First LP mastering of this work at 45 rpm!
- Single 45 rpm LP
- 180 Gram pressing
- Half-Speed LP Mastering: Paul Stubblebine
The Hot Club Of San Francisco – Yerba Buena Bounce – 2 x Vinyl LP
- Reference Mastercuts
- 200 Gram Vinyl
- 45 RPM