Violin and Piano Sonatas - Debussy, Janacek, Strauss [Pure DSD]

Two leading artists team up and bring together a selection of violin and piano masterpieces, performed in an outstanding and insightful way. Debussy’s sonata, composed in the last years of the French composer’s life, is full of sensuosity, while Janácek’s four-movement sonata is full of nationalistic feelings and of intense fragmentary gestures. The recording closes with Richard Strauss’s monumental and overtly romantic sonata, composed by the great German composer when still in his early twenties. We can unashamedly say that Iturriagagoitia and Bagaría give one of the finest performances of these works and we truly believe this recording is a must have! This is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound release – recorded in Stereo and 5 Channel DSD 256 by Gonzalo Noque of Eudora Records. The other DSD bit rates (DSD 512, DSD 128, DSD 64) were created in the DSD Domain by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield using the Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro mastering software.

Producer's Note from Gonzalo Noqué

Dear NativeDSD friends, As a producer, it is actually rare to come across with performances that are artistically and technically transcendent, like those I witnessed while recording this project at the impressive Mozart Hall of the Auditorio de Zaragoza, in Spain. Both Aitzol and Enrique are superlative artists that made recording this album an inspiring event. Each of the masterpieces recorded here is a universe in itself, from the sensual world of Debussy’s sonata to the epic and overtly romantic character of Strauss’ Op. 18, through the intense and nationalistic sonata of Janácek. From the technical and sonic perspective, this is a different approach from our previous albums: the main sound comes from two Schoeps’ MK21 with the CMC6 bodies modified by Rens Heijnis, while two Neumann U89’s (also Rens Heijnis modified) on the piano and one Coles ribbon microphone on the violin were analog summed using a custom box made by Rens Heijnis. No DXD conversion has been done in the process. Aitzol Iturriagagoitia - Violin Enrique Bagaría - Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4ebCUn4zg