After a combined thirty years at one of New York's premier classical studios, Richard Price and Wayne Hileman have formed Candlewood Digital, a company now entering its third year of serving the recording needs of classical musicians.

These three years have seen Candlewood recognized as one of the most respected classical recording firms in the industry. In addition to Richard and Wayne, we are very happy to have Robert LaPorta, president of MSR Classics, as our mobile engineering specialist, completing a staff unsurpassed in skill, experience, and dedication to the highest standards, both musical and technical.

Our company is based on our values.

At the center of everything we do is the music.

We believe in treating people with kindness, respect, and patience. We are an old-fashioned business.

29 Lake Drive South Candlewood Isle Box 67 New Fairfield, CT 06812

203-702-7205 info@candlewooddigital.com www.candlewooddigital.com

Candlewood records the Music of William Brehm: Producer Loretta Giles, tenor Michael Denham, pianist Lisa Sarratt, violinist Jesse MIlls, soprano Sheri Jackson, and composer William K. Brehm, at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC.

At the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC: Concert Artists Guild winning pianist Daria Rabotkina with producer/engineer Richard Price

Composer Evan Hause, clarinetist Maureen Hurd, and pianist Blair McMillen recording with Candlewood at the Nicholas Music Center of Rutgers University

Recording an all-Chopin program at the American Academy of Arts & Letters: pianist Alberto Reyes (l) with colleague Roberto Estellano.

Recording Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit at the American Academy of Arts & Letters: pianist Gregory McCallum, producer/engineer Richard Price

Recording Bach's Goldberg Variations live in concert at the Windham Chamber Music Festival:

pianist Simone Dinnerstein, producer/engineer Wayne Hileman.

Recording Ikkyu's Dream at Gordon College, Wenham, MA: Pianist and composer Philip Swanson, master piano technician Christine Lovgren.

Pianist Joshua Pierce in the Candlewood editing suites, during postproduction work on Hindemith's Four Temperaments, recorded in Bratislava with Kirk Trevor and the Capella
Istropolitana .

Mainstreet Brass
recording a program of newly-arranged Christmas music, in Bethlehem, PA: Donald Hughes, Shari Gleason-Mayrhofer, Steven Mathiesen, Allen Frank, Bryan Hay, Kevin Long.

Recording The Chamber Music of Barbara Harbach in St. Louis: composer Barbara Harbach, pianist Alla Voskoboynikova, and soprano Stella Markou

In Dallas: producer

Richard Price, engineer Roy Cherryhomes, flutist Kara Kirkendoll Welch, pianist Gabriel Sanchez, and engineer

George Gilliam.

Recording Robert Manno's "Dylan & Caitlin": Grant Loehnig, piano; Marcus Deloach, baritone; Emily Pulley, soprano; Robert Manno, composer; Wayne Hileman, producer/engineer.

Rob LaPorta at the International Trumpet Guild Conference with the Synergy Brass.

Recording the Copland Violin Sonata at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC: Richard Price, Ann Schein, Earl Carlyss.

MirrorImage, recording with Candlewood at Penn State University: Michelle Stebleton, Tomoko Kanamaru, Lisa Bontrager.

Singing, and playing,

in the rain!

An unusually rainy spring hasn't dampened the summer concert season: the Windham Chamber Music Festival features concerts by violinists Lara St. John and Elmar Oliveira, the Borromeo String Quartet, and the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under Robert Manno; at the new Doctorow Center for the Arts, the Catskill Mountain Foundation presents The Piano: King of Instruments, featuring newly acquired instruments from the Pleshakov Piano Museum; the Connecticut Choral Society joins the New Jersey Choral Society, under their shared music director Eric Dale Knapp, performing Haydn's Heiligmesse and his Missa Brevis St. Joannis de Deo; the Pro Arte Singers, in their 36th season under Maestro Arthur Sjogren, feature 16th century madrigals as well as a world premiere by Michael Waldenby; Cappella Festiva performs a treasury of American choral music under the direction of Christine Howlett; the Danbury Concert Chorus and Danbury Symphony Orchestra feature rarely heard works for chorus and orchestra of Taneyev, Still, and Vaughan Williams; newly appointed music director Curt Ebersole conducts the revitalized Westchester Symphonic Winds;and more!

Viktor Kalabis Edition

A major new retrospective to be released on MSR Classics:

spearheaded by virtuoso American flutist John Solum, and in partnership with the venerable Czech label Supraphon, Candlewood is proud to be remastering a remarkable survey of the music of the late Czech composer Viktor Kalabis. David Vaughan has written: "Few people over the last half century have made an impact on Czech classical music that comes anywhere close to that of the composer Viktor Kalabis... His work emerges from a great musical tradition that includes Stravinsky and Martinu, and his compositions are typically characterized by a sense of drama combined with a strong feel for inner musical logic." Curious? Follow this link for more on this still relatively unknown master.

Irv, Dizzy, Clifford, and Chet

Some few years ago, legendary jazz producer Irv Kratka happened into the studio where Richard Price and Wayne Hileman were painstakingly restoring, remixing, and remastering the classic Nathan Milstein recording of the Dvorak violin concerto for EMI (still available on CD.) After hearing the result, Irv has for years trusted only Candlewood engineers with the analog treasures from his vaults. Among the current batch of historic analog reels that are being carefully restored in the CanDig studios: Classic Jazz/Inner City Records projects from Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Phil Woods, Earl "Fatha" HInes, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Bob Wilber, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Lew Tabackin, and the inimitable Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra. (The producer of that Milstein release: EMI's head of classical A&R Rob LaPorta, now president of MSR Classics and mobile recording specialist for CanDig! Rob produced the entire highly acclaimed series of EMI's classic Full Dimensional Sound reissues, which were remastered by Richard and Wayne.)

The Great Mander Organ

How do you record an organ 100+ feet in the air? Really tall stands, to start! Producer/engineer Wayne Hileman recently completed a recording of wide-ranging French repertoire--plus some Bach!--with virtuoso organist Renée Anne Louprette on the famed Mander organ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City (photo above left). As the largest tracker-action pipe organ in the New York Metropolitan area, it holds special appeal for organists and lovers of organ music. The organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Olivier Latry, personally chose the organ and church as the American site for his acclaimed cycles of Messian’s complete organ works in 2000, along with Notre Dame and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. (More photos from the sessions are on our Services page.)

Robert Craft's

Continuing Legacy

Candlewood Digital's engineers continue their longstanding relationship with conductor Robert Craft, remastering the acclaimed Naxos releases of Maestro Craft's seminal Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Webern collections. Just released: a deluxe boxed set of Stravinsky's ballets, with the Philharmonia. Maestro Craft has personally requested Candlewood Digital mastering engineers for these realeases since the inception of the three series.

New Candlewood Productions

Summer brings a wonderful mix of music being produced and engineered by Candlewood for commercial CD release. On the schedule: Trios for clarinet, cello, and piano, with the Pierce/Aomori Duo joined by cellist Daniel Barrett; a new recording of music of the German Baroque, with the Hanoverian Ensemble; Russian masterworks for piano by Concert Artists Guild winner Daria Rabotkina; Tchaikovsky and Cliburn laureate Alberto Reyes in a Chopin program, both at the American Academy of Arts & Letters in NYC; new music from composer Curt Cacioppo, including his Red Dove, at Haverford College, PA; new chamber works of composer Sharon Ruchman, at the Kent Chapel in Connecticut; clarinetist Maureen Hurd in a program of new American works, including Bolcom, Hause, Cowell, and Starer, at Rutgers University; composer/trombonist Philip Swanson in a unique collaboration with poet J.D. Scrimgeour, being recorded at Salem State University and Gordon College, Massachusetts; a new traversal of the Bach cello suites with soloist Mary Costanza; a program of rarities for flute and organ with Linda Marianiello and Keith Reas; French masterworks with pianist Gregory McCallum; and more!

In the Editing/Mastering Rooms

Arkady Leytush and the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine premiere "Thermals Rising", by Hampson Sisler; a new piano recording by Sue Kyung Song, "Passion Remembered"; organ music recorded in Korea and the United States by SooHwang Choi; a new Christmas CD from Mainstreet Brass, following their very successful "By Request" CD on MSR Classics;"Ikkyu's Dream", a program of new music composed and performed by Philip Swanson; French music for flute, piano and harpsichord from the 17th and 20th centuries with baroque and modern flutist Don Hulbert; Bloch, Bach and HIndemith from pianist Joshua Pierce, with Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; new works with trumpeter Grant Peters; works of Aurelia De La Vega, with pianist Martha Marchena; a new project from the Stentorian Consort trombone quartet; new works for guitar, with guitarist Harris Becker; a recital of major works for flute and piano with Dallas Symphony flutist Kara Kirkendoll Welch and pianist Gabriel Sanchez, recorded in conjunction with SoundBoard Recording in Dallas; two new CDs of the chamber and vocal music of Barbara Harbach, recorded in St. Louis; the ongoing complete Stravinsky and Schoenberg series, with conductor Robert Craft and the Philharmonia of London; composer Suzanne Sorkin, new and vintage projects from Music Minus One, and more!