Candlewood Digital was founded in 2006 by Richard Price and Wayne Hileman, following thirty combined years of working together at one of New York's premier classical recording studios. Completed by mobile engineering specialist Robert LaPorta, the Candlewood Digital staff of professionals offers musicians a high-end recording resource unsurpassed in skill, experience, and dedication to the highest standards, both musical and technical.

LeFrak Auditorium,

Queens College, NYC

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.

"Candlewood has become recognized as one of the most respected classical recording firms in the industry"

Fanfare Magazine, September/October 2010

Recording the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing string music of Barbara Harbach at Henry Wood Hall, London, for MSR Classics: above, producer Richard Price of Candlewood Digital, composer Dr. Barbara Harbach, conductor David Angus, recording engineer Mike Hatch of Floating Earth UK, and project manager Patrick Garvey, of Patrick Garvey Management, London.

At the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC, recording a program

of new chamber music with marimba: Candlewood producer/engineer Richard Price, violinist Jesse Mills, marimbist Makoto Nakura.

The first recordings of Vittorio Gianinni's Quintet and Trio, by the musicians of the Manchester Music Festival, at the historic Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Candlewood's Richard Price, violinist Stephan Milenkovich, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, pianist Adam Neiman, violist and Music Director Ariel Rudiakov, violinist Joana Genova. Photo used by kind permission of Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

Recommended Reading

Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, by Robert Levine.

“One of the great issues of the digital age is how people who create content will be able to make a living. Robert Levine’s timely and well-researched book provides a valuable look at how copyright protection was lost on the internet and offers suggestions about how it could be restored.”
—Walter Isaacson, President/CEO of the Aspen Institute

“A book that should change the debate about the future of culture….With this stylishly written and well-reported manifesto, Levine has become a leading voice on one side of our most hotly contested debate involving law and technology.”
—Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times Book Review

Bob Briggs 1954-2011

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bob Briggs, CD and concert reviewer based in London and known to many for his MusicWeb International reviews. He was an unforgettable character and we are the poorer for his loss. A rememberance may be found on MusicWeb International. Above, Bob sitting in with us during the Barbara Harbach/London Philharmonic sessions this past March. (L to R: Bob Briggs,composer Barbara Harbach, Candlewood producer Richard Price, and Floating Earth engineer Mike Hatch.)  

Commercial CD Sessions

Upcoming sessions include the first recording of the new Gluck pipe organ, Opus 13, installed in Faith Lutheran Church, New Providence, NJ; large chamber works by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, performed by Eastman BroadBand, to be recorded by Candlewood in the new recording room at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and featuring marimbist Makoto Nakura; Bach Partitas with pianist David Korevaar, to be recorded by Candlewood at the University of Colorado at Boulder; three major new works by Barbara Harbach, including a trio for soprano, violin, and piano, a work for large chamber ensemble, and a work for large low brass ensemble, to be recorded in St. Louis; songs of Vincent Persichetti, sung by Sherry Overholt with pianist Joshua Pierce, to be recorded at Lefrak Auditoruim at NYC's Queens College; former Montreal Symphony and Atlanta Symphony principal trumpeter James Thompson in a recital of trumpet masterworks, to be recorded at the new chamber music hall at the Eastman School of Music; and more.

Into 2012

Candlewood's 2012 calendar features concerts by the Lyric Piano Quartet;Robert Manno leading the Windham Chamber Orchestra at the Windham Chamber Music Festival; double reed ensemble Double Entendre at the Catskill Mountain Foundation for the Arts; music director Ariel Rudiakov leads the Danbury Symphony Orchestra and piano soloist Will Duchon in Brams' First Piano Concerto; conductor Arthur Sjogren leads the Pro Arte Singers in their 39th season, as well as Charis Chamber Voices; the Westchester Symphonic Winds, conducted by Curt Ebersole; iChristine Howlett, new music director of the Danbury Concert Chorus, also leads the Vassar College Choir; Drew Minter conducts the Vassar College Women's Chorus; Eric Dale Knapp conducts the New Jersey Choral Society as well as the Connecticut Choral Society in their seasons, including the debut performance of the New Jersey Camerata chamber singers; the Grammy Signature award winning choirs and bands of Greenwich High School perform, conducted by Patrick Taylor and John Yoon; and much more!

In the Editing/Mastering Rooms

Hampson Sisler's massive new orchestral work, Milestones, performed by the National Orchestra of the Ukraine and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony, conducted by Arkady Leytush; choral music of Christmas, sung by the Wilton Singers under Patrick Taylor; choral music of Nancy Wertsch, with Harold Rosenbaum leading the New York Virtuoso Singers, at New York City's Church of the Resurrection: the CD's title work, "...with Peace in Mind", a 9/11 tenth anniversary commemorative setting of prayers from five world religions; music for brass quintet and organ featuring two different classic Fisk organs, with trumpeter James Thompson, trombonist Philip Swanson, and organist Barbara Bruns, recorded at St. John's Church in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and at Old West Church, Boston, MA; a recital of music for the unusual combination of cello and saxophone, produced and recorded by Candlewood at the University of Florida, Gainesville, featuring cellist Steven Thomas and saxophonist Jonathan Helton; solo and chamber music works featuring virtuoso marimbist Makoto Nakura, recorded at the American Academy in New York City; works of composer Marcello Abbado (brother of Claudio; piano concertos of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Bach, featuring Joshua Pierce joined by Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; the ongoing complete Stravinsky and Schoenberg series for Naxos, with conductor Robert Craft and the Philharmonia of London; a new traversal of the Bach cello suites with soloist Mary Costanza; French music for flute, piano and harpsichord from the 17th and 20th centuries with baroque and modern flutist Don Hulbert; new and vintage projects from Music Minus One, Classic Jazz, and Inner City Records, and much more!

Candlewood Featured on Lavry Engineering Website

The website of Lavry Engineering, one of the most respedcted names in high-end pro audio, currently features a lengthy article about Candlewood Digital, including interviews with Richard and Wayne. The author states that "both musicians and record label clients alike have developed a high comfort level with Candlewood Digital, due to their ability to travel nationwide and deliver pristine recording, editing and mastering projects afterwards". CanDig engineers have used Lavry's state-of-the-art high-resolution converters exclusively since the inception of Candlewood Digital. We are proud of our association with Dan Lavry and his company, and delighted to be featured on their site.

Retrospective: Alec Wyton

Candlewood Digital has been selected to restore, evaluate, and remaster historic tapes of the great American organist, composer, choirmaster, and church musician Alec Wyton (1921-2007). Many of the tapes come from Mr. Wyton’s twenty years at the helm of the music program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; unreleased and unheard for many years, they were in the private collections of the Wyton family. Richard Wyton, the artist’s son, will be executive producer of the project. Candlewood engineers have completed similar archival restoration and remastering projects for John Browning, Leonard Pennario, John Solum, Blanca Uribe, and the composer Viktor Kalabis (see below!), among others.