Producers and Engineers provide NativeDSD listeners insights on their recording process and give notes on the production, see the recording setup and find direct links to the music discussed.
A special message from the Producer Jake Purches of Base2 Music. Four years in the making, this remarkable recording reflects the challenges of working with the internationally acclaimed conductor, pianist and organist Wayne Marshall, whose demanding schedule often required production meetings and editing sessions across Europe. Recorded in 2022, as the world was emerging from […]
Dear Friends in the NativeDSD family, Nostos maintains a special place in my heart. This was Yarlung’s first choral recording, and I must admit we got very lucky. I haven’t admitted this before but Nostos was supposed to be a warm up recording to test a new concert hall and to test some recording techniques […]
Aliud Records Timeless Music, Limitless Sound Current Label of the Month. Explore Now. Aliud Records, based in Joure, has been active since 1982, with founder and owner Jos Boerland at the helm: “I drifted into the recording world as a conservatory student, and you could safely call it a hobby that got completely out of […]
Dear Friends, We are grateful to Native DSD’s very own music critic Rush Paul, who offered to serve as our friendly arm-twister, encouraging us to release a fresh mastering of Ciaramella: Music from the Court of Burgundy in honor of Yarlung’s 20th Anniversary. It turned out to be a great aural treat to revisit the original […]
This article was written by Larry Crane for TapeOp website and is reposted in its entirety with special thanks to the author and website. Click here to view the original article With the goal of releasing records recorded at the highest fidelity with minimal processing, Doug Fearn and brothers George and Geoff Hazelrigg began Outer […]
Dear Friends at NativeDSD, Happy upcoming weekend to you, and in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! This month, Yarlung executive producer Russell Ward brings you one of Yarlung’s finest new recordings in the label’s 20-year history. Tokyo Quartet First Violinist Martin Beaver arranged for Quartet Integra to audition with us at Yarlung before they moved to […]
Dear Friends, The 2024 Munich High End Show was a culmination in several ways. It was my first visit, and now that the show is moving to Vienna, my last. All the luminaries were there, including my friends Jared and Jonas Sacks and our NativeDSD marketing director David Hopkins (I met David in person for the first […]
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 […]
How would you describe your orientation as a composer in the spectrum of music from traditional hindustani or carnatic music to western classical music to more popular contemporary music? As a composer, I look for different ways to carry my tradition into new genres. That means that a lot of things can be relevant. Many […]
You describe Ravel´s style as having a ´remarkable simplicity´. Can you describe this simplicity? Is it a harmonic, melodic and/or formal simplicity? Daniel (baritone sax): We like to think of Ravel’s music as if it were a pocket watch: it is an apparently simple instrument, marking the passing of time gently, with an organic movement. […]
Dear Friends, It is a rare treat when a music writer and critic twists a producer’s arm to re-release an early album in a record label’s catalog. David Fung’s Evening Conversations put Yarlung Records on the audiophile map, and it was last released in 2012. Rush Paul, dear to all of us at NativeDSD, was […]
We were very lucky to score an exclusive interview with mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey where we talked about her newest release Samsara – R. Schumann & Fauré. Thank you Kate for your time and thoughtful words, and most of all thank you for your beautiful vocal performance. What is Samsara? Samsara is a term used within Buddhism […]