Xiaowen Shang’s debut album is a delightful program featuring a number of individual selections from Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada, interspersed with some of Antonio Soler’s eighteenth-century sonatas, and piano transcriptions of the sixteenth-century sacred composer Antonio de Cabézon- 3 centuries of Spanish music that she brings together flawlessly. She plays with crystal clarity, yet never […]
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with none other than Doug Fearn. As an audio engineer, founder and owner of D.W. Fearn, and most recently co-founder of Outer Marker Records, Doug has a toe in nearly every pool of the music world. It was a blast to speak to him about his life […]
The surprise couldn’t be grander. In his liner notes Ralph Rousseau tells us that except for a handful of Viola da Gamba players, few have for a long time been aware of Carl Friedrich Abel’s Sonatas. I, too, was not all too familiar with many of them. With this TRPTK release, the surprise couldn’t be […]
It is said that many good things have their origin in bad times.The proof is here. No matter what national policies had to be followed, fact is that over the past two years most of international cultural life came to an abrupt halt. Empty venues, concerts postponed, musicians hoping for better times. However, and thanks […]
To celebrate the release of this wonderful new album ‘Ray!’, NativeDSD Music offers a 20% discount on the earlier albums of Carmen Gomes Inc. until January 10th, 2022: – Carmen Gomes sings the Blues (click here)– Up Jumped The Devil (click here)– Don’t You Cry (click here) Carmen Gomes Inc. release new album: Ray! “We […]
Photo credit: Felix Broede Adrian Quanjer is back with a new DSD Review at the NativeDSD Music Blog. Here he reviews the recent album released in the Reference Recordings Fresh! Series: Brahms 4 / MacMillan Larghetto by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Exclusively Available in Stereo and 5 Channel DSD 256, DSD 128 […]
15 Candles for 15 Years: OUR Recordings is celebrating their 15th anniversary! The label’s founder and director, Lars Hannibal, has written a letter that we have published here below. It’s a great way to get to know the Danish label better. Dear readers, dear music lovers, When Michala Petri and I decided to launch our […]
We wanted to know more about the recent album ‘Russian Paintings‘ by the Russian Terem Quartet on the Russian ReachSound Art label. So we went ahead and asked the two founding members – Andrey Konstantinov and Andrey Smirnov – some questions. 🙂 Why is the album called Russian Painting? Andrey Konstantinov The album is called […]
It suddenly dawned on me a few days ago that Native DSD’s available albums have increased dramatically in number well over 1800 now. If you’re like me, you might forget to check earlier releases for hidden treasure. Or, you might have developed a different opinion about a given work or performance. So I decided to spend […]
All Things Common celebrates choral music by Tarik O’Regan recorded in the British composer’s new home state of California. Tarik and family moved to the United States a few weeks before our recording sessions. They are happily ensconced in San Francisco, weathering the Covid-19 lockdown with perseverance and a healthy British sense of humor and […]
Mari Kodama’s profoundly nuanced yet natural musicality and her unique ability to unite tonal expressivity with a clear sense of form have made her a leading international pianist. An authoritative Beethoven interpreter, Mari Kodama earns consistent praise for her virtuosity across a broad range of repertoire that includes orchestral, chamber, and solo works by composers […]
Dear DSD Friends, I can proudly introduce to you what I think it is sonically my best piano album so far. What you’re hearing is as pure as it gets: one microphone per channel, no DXD conversion, a pure DSD256 recording with so few editing points as I had never saw. Main pair are my […]
From the Ends of the Earth
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