View Original Once again we have a full measure of excellent recordings released in recent weeks. If I didn’t like them, I would not write about them. And I do like these very much. They start off with an outstanding new recording of trumpet concertos from the inestimable Tine Thing Helseth and Lawo Classics, then […]
This post was originally written by Rushton Paul for Positive feedback, and it is reposted here with their generous permission. View Original Today we have a wonderful organ recording from Base2 Music, one that was included in my earlier article, Outstanding Organ Recordings in DSD256 and DXD (HERE), but am only now getting to writing […]
View Original Tom Peeters is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Cobra Records, which he founded in the fall of 2000. As founder, recording engineer, mastering engineer, and producer of nearly 100 exquisite albums released on the Cobra Records label over these years, Tom has many accomplishments for which his work should be celebrated. And he […]
Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances have fared well on disc with classic performances from, amongst others, Kubelik, Sejna and Talich. Unsurprisingly the Czech Philharmonic has recorded them on numerous occasions, on this, their third album with Simon Rattle their playing is marvellous and they still actually sound like an Eastern European orchestra. Much of this is down […]
View Original Oh yes! I am excited about this. I am in love with this. Why? Because this is what audio should be. Frans de Rond, founder and recording engineer for Sound Liaison has released a stunning new album in Pure DSD256 with Carmen Gomes Inc. It is phenomenal. It is clarity, purity and utter […]
As well as being a performer and critic, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote a considerable body of conventional diatonic music in a wide variety of idioms. In Platero y Yo, which dates from 1960, he set twenty-eight poems for narrator and guitar by the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, which document what can […]
We recently had the honour of interviewing Anna Genuishene about her new album ‘Opus 1: Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Berg, Brahms’. Released Friday, October 03 2025 on Fuga Libera, this album explores the early creative voices of great Romantic composers such as Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Berg and Tchaikovsky, uncovering the ambition, curiosity, and individuality that shaped their […]
This year we presented DSD music at the London Audio Show 2024. We had the pleasure of presenting our music through Tannoy speakers, and the equally great pleasure of meeting Daniel Raggett of Symphony Distribution who supplied and set up the speakers in our room. I was so pleased by the sound of the Tannoys […]
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View Original Every now and again a recording comes along that is of such supreme quality, that I simply must stop and tell you about it. It deserves a special stand alone article. And this performance by Ning Feng, recorded by Jared Sacks, is such a release. Read on… Brahms & Goldmark Violin Concertos, Ning […]
View Original I can’t tell you about all the new releases from this past week now available at NativeDSD. I haven’t had time to listen to them all, and certainly not yet time to write about them all. But I have selected six that truly piqued my interest, and they turned out to be just […]
The Musical Engine of Europe? An intriguing release. Two well-known core compositions performed by lesser-known artists. It requires some explanation. Many of us will be familiar with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (now the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern), mainly for guest Director Stanisław Skrowaczewski’s Bruckner Symphonies. But I can’t recall hearing anything from the Saarländisches Staatsorchester […]
