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Reference Recordings
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”.
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Arnold Overtures – Half-Speed Mastered, 180g Vinyl
Reference Recordings – RM-1518 – 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl
Mastered by Paul Stubblebine – Pressed at QRP – Half Speed Mastering
This re-release of Arnold Overtures is a gem and worth rebuying even if you own the music in another format. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this recording and Sir Malcolm’s enthusiastic interpretation of his own compositions Sound 5/5 Music 5/5 The Audio Beat
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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
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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
“If you don’t think an Aussie can sing the blues, give it a listen. The live recording by Keith O. Johnson, is stunning.” —Michael Fremer, Stereophile
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John Williams At The Movies – Half-Speed Mastered, 180g Vinyl
Reference Recordings
1/2 speed mastered
180g Virgin Vinyl
John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding music for films.
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Mephisto & Co. Half-Speed Mastered, 45RPM 200g Vinyl
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue
Jorja Fleezanis, violin solos
The Absolute Sound Super Disc List
Ghosts, goblins, spirits and demons run amok in this program of infernal orchestral favorites: MEPHISTO WALTZ (Liszt), NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (Mussorgsky), TAM O’ SHANTER (Arnold) and many more in an explosive witches’ brew!
One of RR’s all-time favorite recordings is now available for the first time on vinyl!
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MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 24 – 200g Reference Mastercuts
MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 24
EUGENE ISTOMIN, piano
A legendary pianist! Inspired performances by one of America’s greatest musicians, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra
- Reference Recordings - Reference Mastercuts
- Mastered by Paul Stubblebine
- 200g Vinyl
- Half-speed Masterred
- 45RPM
- Quality Record Pressings in deluxe gatefold jacket
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Nojima Plays Liszt – Reference Recordings 2 x Vinyl LP
Nojima Plays Liszt (RR-25) was named “Best Recording of the Month” by Stereo Review when it was originally released in 1988. It was described as “A stunning demonstration of technique put at the service of profoundly musical ends.”
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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
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Tutti! Orchestral Sampler – Reference Recordings 180g Vinyl 2LP
TUTTI! is Italian for “all together now,” as in the sound of a full orchestra playing in perfect ensemble. TUTTI! is also a full-length sampler of RR’s classical orchestral releases —PLUS a special BONUS track available nowhere else in the RR catalog! Artists include Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Jose Serebrier and the Czech State Philharmonic, Eugene Istomin, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Wind Symphony,and the Turtle Creek Chorale.