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Can You Recommend Some DSD Jazz? (Brian’s Corner)
A NativeDSD Music customer from Italy recently asked NativeDSD’s Technical Advisor Brian Moura: “Can you recommend some Jazz in Direct Stream Digital (DSD)”? His reply to that question is hereby shared with all of you through this special DSD Jazz edition of Brian’s Corner. We hope that you will enjoy the read and the music! […]
The Man at the Keyboard, or How to Solve A Collector’s Headache
Unless you are lucky enough to have a box set of complete (?) piano sonatas, which only exists in the CD format, or, if that is your preference, Tom Beghin’s hi-tech sound reconstruction ‘The Virtual Haydn’ it is an impossible job to collect all of Haydn’s piano sonatas without doublures. So far, I’ve managed to […]
Engineering Wizardry & Pianistic Honesty
Schubert’s final piano sonata, a long and demanding testament Searching on the internet for the best interpreters of Schubert’s late sonatas, one invariably ends up with the usual suspects of which most are no longer among us. Moreover, pianists from some countries don’t seem to be represented at all, like for instance Spain. Does Spain […]
40 Classical DSD Recommendations (Dodd’s DSD Discoveries)
Ah, the opportunities! With so many albums to choose from! Here I share a few ideas, these are some of the classical works, interpretations and recordings that I admire most. How about a complete Beethoven Symphony cycle from Jan Willem de Vriend on Challenge Classics? Everybody has some favorite Beethoven conductors, but I can’t imagine […]
Dodd’s DSD Discoveries: The PENTATONE Edition
Bill Dodd has been listening to the entire Pentatone DSD catalog for many years. And extensively over the past 6 weeks for the purpose of this blog. These 17 albums below are the result of that; the tip of the iceberg, the crème de la crème, the cherry on top, the must-haves. Enjoy the read […]
Music for Two: Dark Fire, The Zoo, Silent City
Reviewer Mark Werlin returns to the NativeDSD Blog with three DSD reviews. Each of them features works for duos and they are all recorded and released by the TRPTK team. We hope you will enjoy the read! Joachim Eijlander: Dark Fire (TRPTK) Dark Fire”, TRPTK’s new DSD album of solo and duo works for cello, […]
An Hour Of Excellent & Intellectual Music
What is the difference between the automobile market and the music record business? Not much. Sales statistics cover the mass market in either sector. But irrespective of figures and predictions there will always be room, however small, for a ‘niche’, as long as there is a demand for ‘The Best’. Not numbers, but the quality […]
Brighter!
Dodd’s DSD Discoveries #36 It’s been a while since I’ve wandered through the catalog looking for discoveries. I decided to look for some that would help to brighten things a bit. Here are some that do that! And they keep me emotionally involved as I listen… Dana Zemtsov and Cathelijne Noorland are amazing in […]
Jazz Flugelhorn recorded by the NativeDSD Team
It all starts in this small town in the south of the Netherlands, when he joins the local brassband playing the flugelhorn at the age of 11. A few years later he gets so excited about Big Band Oss that he switches to trumpet to be able to join them. In 1980 Angelo moves to […]
Power of the Piano with the Freshness of the Harp
It is not the first time that Chopin’s spiritual output has been used by other creative minds to rearrange or transcribe it for another instrument or even a full orchestra. Mily Balakirev used four of Chopin’s well-known pieces for his Chopin Suite. And, at the other end of the musical scene, who isn’t familiar with […]
Music from The Red Priest
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an incredibly prolific composer who was known throughout Europe during his lifetime. He was an ordained as a priest and was known as “The Red Priest” because he had flaming red hair. He stopped saying Mass within two years of his ordination. Vivaldi taught for many years at orphanages in his […]
The Magic of its ‘Expressive Power’
I do not think that the Amsterdam Sinfonietta had anything else in mind than producing an album of “several romantic works, each with a very specific expressive power of its own”. A selection of genuine and adaptations for string ensemble. But in the face of actual global Covid-19 health developments, it may come across quite […]