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December 2025 Classical Record Reviews [Excerpt from Stereophile review by Jason Victor Serinus]

These reviews are re-posted from Stereophile.com, written by Jason Victor Serinus / Stephen Francis Vasta. Dvořák: Slavonic DancesCzech Philharmonic/Sir Simon RattlePentatone Music PTC5817414 (CD). 2025. Holger Urbach, prod.; Stephan Reh, eng.Performance ***Sonics ***½ I shouldn’t have praised Tomá Netopil for recording the Slavonic Rhapsodies instead of the seemingly inevitable Slavonic Dances: Apparently he was leaving […]

David Hopkins on Dec 18, 2025

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When Good Enough is Not Enough: Cobra Records Producer’s Choice Vol. 2 in Pure DSD256, with Free Sample Download

View Original Producer’s Choice, Vol. 2. Cobra Records 2025 (Pure DSD256-Direct Mixed, Stereo) Edit Master Sourced (To be released December 12 at NativeDSD) Cobra Records’ 25th Anniversary celebration continues with the release of Producer’s Choice, Volume 2. And it is phenomenal. Earlier this year, I wrote with enthusiasm about the release of Volume 1 which included selected tracks recorded […]

Rush Paul on Dec 12, 2025

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An Exciting New Release from Yarlung Records in Pure DSD 256 with Quartet Integra Performing Beethoven, Ligeti, and Lefkowitz

View Original Whenever I get to hear something that is so supremely good, and so delightfully performed, with such insight and richness, I feel it warrants a immediate sharing with you. This new Yarlung Records Pure DSD 256 album, released today, is such a recording. Can you tell I’m excited about it? Yes, indeed! You […]

Rush Paul on Nov 24, 2025

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BigRibbons – a New Label To Keep Your Eye On, With Free Sample Download

View Original What a pleasure to hear of a new label with audiophile aesthetics emerging from the greater Los Angeles commercial music community! This was my immediate reaction when I first started talking by phone with Ryan Sillifant, producer, mastering engineer, and performing artist for a new label, BigRibbons, launched by Wes Dooley, founder of […]

Rush Paul on Nov 21, 2025

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Recent Finds No. 58 More Nice Adventures with NativeDSD

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 […]

Rush Paul on Nov 13, 2025

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Yarlung Pure DSD256 Reissues from the Master Tapes Continues with Orion Weiss

View Original As Yarlung Records celebrates its 20th Anniversary, founder Bob Attiyeh is reissuing in Pure DSD256 some of the 15ips 2-track tape recordings made in earlier years. We’ve previously seen released David Fung’s Evening Conversations (HERE) and coming before long will be Ciaramella’s Music in the Court of Burgundy. But now we have this very excellent recording with pianist […]

Rush Paul on Nov 07, 2025

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Platero y Yo – An Andalusian Elegy

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 […]

Rob Pennock on Oct 30, 2025

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Dvořák – Slavonic Dances

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 […]

Rob Pennock on Oct 30, 2025

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Bodacious! A Great New Release From Sound Liaison in Pure DSD256

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 […]

Rush Paul on Oct 27, 2025

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Superlative Brahms and Goldmark From Ning Feng and Channel Classics

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 […]

Rush Paul on Oct 27, 2025

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Recent Finds No. 54 – A Treasure Chest of New Releases at NativeDSD

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 […]

Rush Paul on Oct 20, 2025

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‘Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos’ by Suzana Bartal

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 […]

Adrian Quanjer on Oct 20, 2025

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