Author: Rush Paul
For over 50 years, Rushton Paul and his wife share a profound passion for music, cherishing transparency and accuracy of instrumental timbre. Their preference lies in acoustic and classical music, seeking recordings that immerse them in the authentic acoustical space of the musicians. Timbre is critical to them, desiring to hear genuine harmonic overtones of real instruments. Their transition to headphones shifted their focus to transparency, inner detail, timbre, and micro-dynamics, factors that profoundly influence their music enjoyment and assessment.
Recent Finds No. 36 – The NativeDSD Catalog Continues to Deliver Wonderful Recordings
Go To Original Article NativeDSD continues to earn highest recommendations from me as a preferred source for high resolution downloads. There are some labels they don’t have access to, unfortunately, but their catalog continues to grow with new labels showing up every few weeks. This means their new releases outpace my ability to write about […]
Iceland with Sono Luminus
View Original Article For some time I’ve wanted to share with you some of this outstanding music, performance excellence, and superb audio quality coming from Sono Luminus’ ventures with Icelandic composers and performers. Why Iceland? I didn’t have any clear understanding other than that Sono Luminus CEO Collin Rae has some connections there and they […]
Notes on Recent Finds No. 35 – Classical Music Composed Within the Past 25 Years
View Original Article With such a rich history of music in the western world, it is too easy to get lost in centuries past. We can too easily fail to see the amazing music being written today. With this article, I want to offer up some outstanding music of the 21st Century I’ve been privileged […]
A Rare Musical Experience with Pianist David Fung
View Original Source David Fung, Evening Conversations. Yarlung Records 2006 2025 (Pure DSD256) Release date: 4-18-2025 I found myself talking recently on the phone with my friend Bob Attiyeh, the creative founder and visionary of Yarlung Records. I’m always intrigued by these occasional calls with Bob. One never knows whence they may wander. That day, Bob […]
Recent Finds No. 32 – Early Music from Medieval to Early Renaissance
View on Positive Feedback I unabashedly love listening to early music, from medieval to renaissance. And much of this music is for voices. Not all, by a long shot, but there is a lot that is a cappella. Early music will be the theme of today’s Recent Finds because this is what has consumed much […]
Recent Finds, No. 30 with Pure DSD256 Albums from Hunnia Records and More
View Original Review Those who have travelled with me through my notes on recent finds know that I have eclectic taste in music. I enjoy almost anything acoustic that is well performed and well recorded. Unfortunately, this also means that you have to scan through the album covers to see if there may be anything […]
Josep Colom Returns and Wow!
View Original Article “There are good pianists, and then there is Josep Colom.”* A living legend. A creative genius. A brilliantly and entrancingly insightful artist. Spanish pianist Josep Colom is all of that and more. And if you’ve not listened to his recordings, you have been missing some of the greatest musicianship of the last […]
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 28 (Repost from Positive Feedback)
Read Original Pure DSD256 from Eudora, Hunnia, Yarlung, and more! I’m catching up… honestly I am. There are many wonderful albums to talk about, more than I can cover in one article. But, I’ll make a start and then add more in a later article. Today, I want to visit several terrific Pure DSD256 recordings […]
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 25 – New Recordings at NativeDSD
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! The labels represented in NativeDSD’s […]
Anna Fedorova – Among the Greatest Pianists Performing Today
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! Anna Fedorova is among the […]
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 22 – Six Marvelous Pure DSD256 Recordings
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! With some of the best […]
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 21 – New Joys from NativeDSD
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! As David Robinson and I […]