Multiple Award winning audiophile classical music record label Reference Recordings.

With Two Grammys and eleven nominations, as well as many other awards, Reference Recordings has become one of the most respected independent classical music record label in the world.

New Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler

Prepare to be AMAZED!

The New Dallas Wind Symphony
SAMPLER

RR-909 - $9.98

"The Dallas Wind Symphony is one of America's elite cultural institutions, up there with the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Philadelphia Orchestra." -Gene Gaudette.com

At last, a collection of the very best tracks from all RR releases with The Dallas Wind Symphony, America's premier professional wind band! All wind music enthusiasts need to have these knockout performances, conducted by the legendary Frederick Fennell, Jerry Junkin and Howard Dunn. Recorded in the acclaimed acoustics of the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the great music and spectacular sonics are perfectly captured by RR's world-renowned team of engineer Keith Johnson and producer Tam Henderson.

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The Dallas Wind Symphony has recorded thirteen critically-acclaimed titles for RR. This first DWS Sampler, at the special-value price of $9.98, is a collection of "primo" tracks, one from each program, that can serve as an introduction to the exciting world of the extensive wind-band repertoire, and as an audio spectacular to give the finest high-end audio systems a workout.

"The DWS matches every varied mood with skill and spirit. And RR, known for super-duper sonics, again captures the ensemble, and the generous acoustics of the Meyerson Symphony Center, with reach-out-and-touch-it realism. -Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Wind Symphony on RR:
LINCOLNSHIRE POSY-(music by Percy Grainger)-Jerry Junkin (RR-117)
FIESTA!-Howard Dunn (RR-38)
HOLST-Howard Dunn (RR-39)
FENNELL FAVORITES-Frederick Fennell (RR-43)
TRITTICO-Frederick Fennell (RR-52)
POMP & PIPES!-Frederick Fennell; Paul Riedo, organ (RR-58)
BEACHCOMBER-Frederick Fennell (RR-62)
ARNOLD FOR BAND-Jerry Junkin (RR-66)
HOLIDAYS & EPIPHANIES (music by Ron Nelson)-Jerry Junkin (RR-76)
MARCHES I'VE MISSED-Frederick Fennell (RR-85)
STRICTLY SOUSA- Jerry Junkin (RR-94)
GARDEN OF DREAMS (music by David Maslanka)-Jerry Junkin (RR-108)
CROWN IMPERIAL-Jerry Junkin; Mary Preston, organ (RR-112)

Order Securely Online! A very special price for the whole set - 13 Titles for $166.40
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Reference Recordings has already released two major albums this year:

Joel Fan - West of the Sun: Music of the Americas

Dallas Wind Symphony - Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger

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For higher resolution downloads (44.1, 88.2 and 96 kHz) and HD quality tracks, you can get Reference Recordings albums at HDtracks.com. All albums are available at CD quality and higher!

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The Absolute Sound magazine reviews

West of the Sun – Music of the Americas.
Joel Fan, piano. Reference Recordings RR-119
Ratings: Music: 4.5/5, Sonics: 4/5

Joel Fan is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. This is his second recital disc for Reference Recordings, and like the first (RR-106) offers a delightfully fresh mix of repertory, some of it quite challenging. The big showpieces here are Barber’s magisterial Piano Sonata, Op. 26, and Ginastera’s thrilling Sonata No. 1. Fan is completely in command in both, rivaling, though not displacing, Marc-André Hamelin in the former and Santiago Rodriguez in the latter. There are also intriguing smaller gems from Ernesto Nazareth, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Astor Piazzolla, Amy Beach, and Margaret Bonds, but the real discovery is William Bolcom’s set of Nine New Bagatelles, which receives its premiere here. Playful, wickedly intelligent (check out how amusingly Bolcom turns a pavane into a funeral march), these jewel-like miniatures are a connoisseur’s dream.

If you like piano recordings that deliver powerful sound with lots of visceral impact, this one’s for you. Made at Skywalker Sound and engineered by Keith Johnson, it also succeeds brilliantly in capturing that godawful Steinway jangle. But for my ears it’s a bit too clinical – it tends to put the listener inside the piano rather than inside a room with a piano. And no piano I have ever played or heard is quite this heavy in the bas. –Ted Libby

Further Listening: World Keys (Fan/Reference); Barber: Sonata (Hamelin/Hyperion)

HDCD®
Titles marked "HDCD" have been recorded with an advanced new digital system co-invented by our own "Prof." Johnson. HDCD brings a new level of accuracy and musicality to digital recordings. Heard on a standard CD player, their sonic superiority will be evident. However, the finest levels of resolution, imaging and spatial information will be revealed when these CDs are reproduced on players with HDCD decoding, now available from many manufacturers.
NOTE: This Swedish website has a very comprehensive alphabetical listing of HDCD titles. NOTE: This website also has an english language version.

HRx DVD-R data discs contain exact, digit-for-digit copies of the original Reference Recordings 176.4 kHz / 24-bit digital masters. This is the ultimate in fidelity for two-channel sound: TRUE high-resolution audio, ready to load from DVD-R data discs onto your computer music server!

Best of Show award for “Greatest Technological Breakthrough: Reference Recordings’ HRx ultra-high resolution (176.4/24) digital music format.” (Alan Taffel: The Absolute Sound April/May 2008)

To play HRx, the files on the DVD-R data disc must be uploaded to a computer music server, which then will play the music files through your audio system. (You cannot play them on CD, DVD, or SACD players)