Reference Recordings would like to congratulate Nadia Shpachenko, producers Victor and Marina A. Ledin, and recording engineer Barry Werger-Gottesman on their 2020 GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Compendium for The Poetry of Places! Read more here: https://referencerecordings.com/the-poetry-of-places-wins-2020-grammy-award Photo by Robby Klein for the Recording Academy
I am excited and honored, and so thankful to my amazing team!!! My album “The Poetry of Places” was just nominated for two 2020 GRAMMY Awards®: Best Classical Compendium (for the whole album) and Producer of the Year, Classical (for album producers Marina and Victor Ledin). This CD features world premiere recordings of architecture-inspired works […]
An enthusiastic review of Nadia’s “The Poetry of Places” album, Peter Burwasser, Fanfare Magazine, July/August 2019 issue “As was the case with Nadia Shpachenko’s previous Reference Recordings project, Quotations and Homages, this release features a broad range of contemporary voices, with a scintillating mix of daring sound, genuine beauty, and a commodity too often missing from […]
An enthusiastic review of Nadia’s “The Poetry of Places” album, Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine, July/August 2019 issue. “The idea of reacting to spaces is the thread that snakes through this fascinating recital. Programming is clearly a strength of Shpachenko, as her disc Quotations & Homages spoke of a similarly adventurous spirit. The superbly produced booklet gives fine […]
An enthusiastic review of Nadia’s “Quotations and Homages” album Peter Burwasser, Fanfare Magazine, July/August 2018 issue “Shpachenko is a brilliant and thoughtful artist. There is a huge range of dramatic and technical effects within this collection, and she captures them all with remarkable precision and expressivity… In all, this is a most invigorating and distinctive […]
Nadia Shpachenko was awarded the Aaron Copland Fund For Music and the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University Recording Grants for her upcoming 2019 album “The Poetry of Places”. Nadia recorded her “Poetry of Places” album at Skywalker Sound in August 2017. The album is scheduled to be released in early 2019 on the […]