Reference Recordings

01/25/2025

Congratulations to Doug MacLeod on his TWO nominations for the 2025 Blues Music Awards! 👏👏👏

(Acoustic Artist of the Year, and Acoustic Album)

01/22/2025

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01/21/2025

Our sale may be over, but it's not too late to join in celebrating RR's own GRAMMY® Award-nominated Sean Royce Martin on his birthday today! You can still find his nominated recordings in the link below!

01/20/2025

Fantastic to see the Grand Teton Music Festival, Sir Donald Runnicles and Garrick Ohlsson's Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording on Gramophone's 50 Best Beethoven Recordings list! See the list at https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-50-best-ludwig-van-beethoven-recordings

Add it to your library via listn.fm/ohlssonbeethoven

01/17/2025

A few days left to take advantage of this Native DSD Music sale which features more than a few of our titles over the years!

25% Off 64 Previous Album of the Year Winners!

Now that the 2024 Album of the Year Awards have wrapped up, we thought it would be nice to look back at the first 6 years of our Album of the Year Awards.

You can get 25% Off 64 Album of the Year Award Winners from 2018 to 2023. Featuring albums from music labels including 2L, 2xhd Mastering, AnalogFather, AudioDefine Records / Same Great Sound, Channel Classics Records, Cobra Records, Eudora Records, Fonè, Groove Note Records USA, HR Recordings, Hunnia Records & Film Production, Impex Records, Jazzology Records - GHB Jazz Foundation, Just Listen Records, LAWO Classics, London Symphony Orchestra Live, OUR Recordings, Outer Marker Records, PENTATONE, Peter Takács Music, Reference Recordings, Regga Records - רגע רקורדס , Resonance Records, Saidera Mastering, Sound Liaison and Yarlung Artists.

This offer expires on January 21, 2025 at the end of the day Pacific Standard Time (PST). The discount will be applied automatically at checkout at NativeDSD.Com

https://www.nativedsd.com/a-look-back/

01/16/2025

🎂 Join us in wishing Conductor Emeritus of the Turtle Creek Chorale, Dr. Timothy Seelig and RR's very own Sean Royce Martin Happy Birthday this month! We're celebrating with a 20% off sale through Monday, January 20th of our entire collection of Dr. Timothy Seelig's recordings with the Turtle Creek Chorale and Sean Royce Martin's GRAMMY® Award-nominated recordings! Shop now and save at referencerecordings.com/sale

Dr. Timothy Seelig is conductor, singer, speaker and educator. He continues a busy schedule of appearances across the U.S. He is the Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and Conductor Emeritus of the Turtle Creek Chorale. He has conducted 50 recordings which have been on Billboard Top Ten and iTunes Top Ten charts. His choruses have been the topic of three award-winning documentaries. He made his European operatic debut in St. Gallen, Switzerland and his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall.

Vital to RR’s technical work is second-generation RR team member Sean Martin. Sean Royce Martin has been a part of the RR engineering team since 2005 and keeps RR on the cutting edge of digital audio advancements and innovation. Martin digitally captures and engineers all of RR’s current sessions, as well as editing and mastering RR and Fresh! releases. Sean has received four GRAMMY® nominations for Best Engineered Classical Album and mastered the GRAMMY® Award-winning RR album The Poetry Of Places. In addition to his work with RR, Martin is an audio engineer at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, and records San Francisco Bay Area artists at his own studio.

01/09/2025

“testimony to [Dame Jane] Glover's skill and scholarship… this pristine account… has a lot going for it.” —Gramophone on Music of the Baroque's Jephtha recording! See the full review in the January issue and online at https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/handel-jephtha-glover

Add it to your library via listn.fm/jephtha

01/07/2025

David Hurwitz and ClassicsToday name The Kansas City Symphony's one of the Best Recordings of 2024!

“revivifies your hope in humanity” —David Hurwitz

See the list and watch the full video review at https://www.classicstoday.com/review/the-kola-keep-on-listening-awards-are-here-enjoy-the-best-recordings-of-2024/

01/03/2025

We are so grateful for all of the Native DSD Music listeners who voted in the 2024 Albums of the Year selection! And we are thrilled to share the our recording with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck of Symphony No. 7 and Mason Bates's Resurrexit was selected as the winner of the 2024 Orchestral Album of the Year! See the full winners list at https://www.nativedsd.com/news/the-winners-2024-albums-of-the-year/

01/02/2025

Tomorrow marks the final day of voting for the GRAMMY Awards®! We are thrilled to present two remarkable recordings for your consideration:

Best Choral Performance: “A Dream So Bright — Choral Music of Jake Runestad”
Eric Holtan, conductor (Jeffrey Biegel; True Concord Voices & Orchestra)

Best Engineered Album, Classical & Producer of the Year Classical: Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer
Dirk Sobotka, producer

12/31/2024

🥂 Wishing you a marvelous New Year! Send out the year with 20 tracks from our 2024 releases on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ZZFRhr

12/24/2024

☃️ Wishing you a very merry Christmas from all of us at Reference Recordings! Enjoy our RR Christmas playlist on Spotify throughout your holidays: https://spoti.fi/3vgmogI

12/23/2024

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck! Their Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 and Mason Bates: Resurrexit recording made The New York Times Best Classical Music Albums of 2024! https://nyti.ms/4go4xr0

“Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continue their remarkable run of recordings with this excellent tribute to Bruckner in the composer’s 200th anniversary year. Honeck’s reading is as creative as you might expect, but it is the astonishing quality of orchestral playing that makes this release downright extraordinary.” —David Allen

12/21/2024

Sending you into the weekend with one of our favorite recordings of holiday music: The Dallas Winds' Horns for the Holidays! Add it to your favorite streaming library - or download in hi-res via listn.fm/hornsfortheholidays

12/18/2024

Native DSD Music's 2024 Albums of the Year Nominations are out and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck's Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Mason Bates: Resurrexit is an Orchestral Nominee! https://bit.ly/4gCV4M5

”Over the decades I have heard conductors try to impart the greatness of Bruckner’s music, and here’s one is completely successful. Honeck knows Bruckner inside and out. He writes, ‘Just as a human being consists of spirit, soul and body, I see Bruckner’s symphonic music in a similar light: Spirit — The art of designing compositional relationships, Soul — The grasping of a boundless depth of spirituality, and Body — The love of Austrian folk and dance music‘”

12/16/2024

Final hours — don't miss out on your chance to save on nearly our entire catalog AND to receive it before Christmas!

Don't forget — it's the final weekend of our Annual Holiday Sale! Save 20% on all in-stock recordings at referencerecordings.com/sale through December 16!

📸 Iconic photo from the cover of our Horns for the Holidays recording with the Dallas Winds