Reference Recordings

Reference Recordings® is a US record label that, since 1976, records and manufactures award-winning CDs, Hybrid SACDs, and Reference Mastercuts LPs. Its recordings are also offered as digital downloads through its own website and through multiple sites worldwide, including high resolution PCM downloads and both stereo and surround-sound DSD downloads. The label offers recordings from classical, jazz, blues and world music artists, records most of its releases with its own team, and also licenses select projects for its FRESH! series. Its stated goal is to make the listening experience 'The Best Seat in the House'. Reference Recordings are distributed in North America by Naxos U.S.A. and internationally in more than 25 countries through a network of music and audiophile distributors.

Reference Recordings® has operated since 1976, describing itself as always at the forefront of technical advances. It records and manufactures award-winning CDs, Hybrid SACDs, and Reference Mastercuts LPs, and offers its recordings as digital downloads through its own website and through multiple sites worldwide, including high resolution PCM downloads and both stereo and surround-sound DSD downloads. It records most of its releases with its own team and also licenses select projects for its FRESH! series. Its current artist roster includes The Kansas City Symphony, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Utah Symphony Orchestra, Bach Aria Soloists, 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, and organists Jan Kraybill and Mary Preston. Legacy artists available on RR titles perennially in print include The Minnesota Orchestra, jazz pianist Dick Hyman, Eileen Farrell, Mike Garson, Tafelmusik, Red Norvo, The Kronos Quartet, The Chicago Pro Musica, Frederick Fennell, Ruggiero Ricci, Robert Farnon, Jose Serebrier, The Turtle Creek Chorale, Flora Purim, and Airto Moreira. Reference Recordings are distributed in North America by Naxos U.S.A. and internationally in more than 25 countries through a carefully chosen network of music and audiophile distributors.

Award-winning, ultimate-quality recordings; 'The Best Seat in the House'; always at the forefront of technical advances.

Product categories. CDs · Hybrid SACDs · Reference Mastercuts LPs · digital downloads (high resolution PCM, stereo and surround-sound DSD)

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