Reference Recordings CD RR-908: 30th Anniversary Sampler - 2006 USA SEALED

Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!1976 seems a long time ago, but that's when Reference Recordings (RR) was born. Remember direct-to-disc LPs? That's how RR started, but being inexperienced and naive, their first recording project fell short of expectations, and was never released. The label got started for real in 1978 when they connected with Keith Johnson and his home-brew focused-gap tape machine, which provided extraordinary material for Prof. Johnson's Astounding Sound Show. In recent years, RR beta-tested and introduced the High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) process, co-invented by Keith Johnson— in RR's view, the best way to make a digital compact disc.This is RR's 30th Anniversary Sampler. A generous helping of primo tracks from RR releases, featuring the Minnesota Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, organ legend Virgil Fox and organ prodigy Felix Hell, great American pianist Gary Graffman, and our latest piano whiz, Joel Fan. All this marvelous music, including several world premieres (and one first release not available elsewhere), is delivered in "Prof." Johnson's most dazzling HDCD sound for your listening pleasure or for system evaluation. REFERENCE RECORDINGS is a well known audiophile label. Indeed "Professor Keith O. Johnson" has been associated with many cutting edge recording examples / techniques not only on the software side of the business, but in the hardware side as well - the highly known and respected "Spectral" brand name comes to mind immediately. Their music software (both CD and LP) competes with the likes of other grand audiophile labels such as; MFSL, Sheffield Lab, Wilson Audio, Opus 3, Mark Levinson, Proprius, etc.. Many of the company's issues have been associated with sonic spectaculars, more specifically, with The Absolute Sound (TAS) magazine, or as it's known in audiophile circles "HP's Super Disc List" (Harry Pearson). If you haven't done so already, give a few of the Reference Recording titles a spin, you won't be sorry! This listing is for a rare audiophile sampler CD title - a FACTORY SEALED CD PRESSED and ISSUED by Reference Recordings. A highly collectible title from the Reference Recordings CD catalog, featuring - 30th Anniversary Sampler Track Listing - Susato: The Dansyere—La Morisque (Jerry Junkin/University of Texas Wind Ensemble) Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody #1 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)—FIRST RELEASE Satie: Gymnopedie #1 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra) Gabriela Lena Frank: Mestizo Waltz (Keith Lockhart/Utah Symphony)John Tavener: Ikon of Eros—excerpt (Paul Goodwin/Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale)Liszt: Prelude on B-A-C-H (Felix Hell, organ)Dominick Argento: For the Angel Israfel (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)Liszt: Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto (Joel Fan, piano)Danielpour: An American Requiem—Dies Irae (Carl St.Clair/Pacific Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dance #3 (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)Skrowaczewski: Concerto Nicolò—finale (Gary Graffman/Skrowaczewski/Minnesota Orchestra)J. S. Bach: Prelude in D (Virgil Fox, organ)Respighi: The Pines of Rome—finale (Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra)The CD is from the rare REFERENCE RECORDINGS series of audiophile CDs. CD catalog # RR-908CDCD issued in 2006CD made in the USA The CD, JEWEL CASE and INSERTS are assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this item is actually FACTORY SEALED! The CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system). Do not let this rarity slip by!

Price: 29.99 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2024-11-03T19:38:40.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD

Product Images

Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Artist: Various Artists

CD Grading: Mint (M)

Record Label: Reference Recordings

Occasion: none

Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard

Custom Bundle: No

MPN: Reference Recordings CD RR-908

Inlay Condition: Mint (M)

Format: CD

Release Year: 2006

Style: Sampler, Classical

Features: HDCD, Import, Remastered, Sealed, Audiophile Collectible SAMPLER CD, CD made in the USA, CD issued in 2006, Pictures are of the ACTUAL ITEM, Sampler

Performer Orchestra: University of Texas Wind Ensemble, Minnesota Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Composer: Franz Liszt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Susato, Enescu, Satie, Gabriela Lena Frank, John Tavener, Dominick Argento, Danielpour, Rachmaninoff, Skrowaczewski

Release Title: Reference Recordings 30th Anniversary Sampler

Color: Silver

Case Condition: Mint (M)

Catalog Number: RR-908

Modified Item: No

Edition: Collector's Edition, Sampler, CD

Type: Album

Era: 2000s

Conductor: Jerry Junkin, Eiji Oue, Keith Lockhart, Paul Goodwin, Carl St.Clair, Skrowaczewski

Genre: Classical

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States