Photo credit: Marco Borggreve « Croyant voir en lui un être sensible à la musique, elle cède et, pendant plusieurs semaines, accepte la passion que lui offre le jeune homme ». Madame Paule, the main character in Françoise Sagan’s masterpiece “Aimez-vous Brahms”, could not resist the passion of the 14-year younger ‘beau garçon’, Simon, who invited her […]
Adrian Quanjer is back with a new DSD Review at the NativeDSD Music Blog. Here he reviews the recent album recorded & released by Eudora Records: Slavic Soul. The Pure DSD Editions in DSD 512, DSD 256 & DSD 128 are only available from NativeDSD. A composer doesn’t need to be an innovator to be […]
Over the years interpretation of Baroque music has seen some considerable changes, moving from slow, almost dragging performances to the more recent agitated, almost aggressive versions, all in the name of Historically Informed Practice, with a wide variety in between. A notable example is Hermann Scherchen’s 1960 LP set of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti. At the […]
What do the world-famous Dutch cellist, Anner Bijlsma, who passed away earlier this year, and his younger colleague, Wytske Holtrop, have in common? Both are closely linked to the same province in the Netherlands where Wytske’s cradle stood: Friesland. The next question then is: Do Friesians have something in their genes that produces cello players […]
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