Floor is interim Communications & Label Manager at NativeDSD Music
As we have just released the new album Beethoven Fidelio with Marek Janowski, Lise Davidsen, Christian Elsner, Georg Zeppenfeld, Günther Groissböck, Cornel Frey, Christina Landshamer, Johannes-Martin Kränzle, Aaron Pegram, Chao Deng , Dresdner Philharmonie , Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, and MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, we cherrypicked the most wonderful recent Pentatone albums and listed them for you […]
Floor van der Holst on Jul 16, 2021
Today marks the release date of “Introspect” String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 by the composer Maarten ter Horst (b. 1987), performed by the Helikon Quartet and recorded by Tom Peeters for Cobra Records. Floor van der Holst (NativeDSD’s Label, Product & Marketing Manager) interviewed the young composer. After speaking with Musicians and Producers about […]
Floor van der Holst on May 14, 2021
In the final weeks of 2020 more than 2,500 (!) people voted for their favorite NativeDSD album that was released in 2020. The voters got to select their favorite release from these 10 albums, each of which won a 2020 DSD Album of the Year Award in 10 different categories. Many labels and artists also […]
Floor van der Holst on Jan 08, 2021
NativeDSD celebrates all that 2020 brought us in terms of very high resolution music released in Stereo, Multichannel and Binaural Direct Stream Digital (DSD). With over 70 music labels contributing to our listeners music enjoyment there is much to celebrate. This year, the NativeDSD family of music labels released over 250 DSD albums in a wide variety […]
Floor van der Holst on Dec 22, 2020
NativeDSD celebrates all that 2020 brought us in terms of very high resolution music released in Stereo, Multichannel and Binaural Direct Stream Digital (DSD). With over 70 music labels contributing to our listeners music enjoyment there is much to celebrate. This year, the NativeDSD family of music labels released over 250 DSD albums in a wide variety […]
Floor van der Holst on Dec 04, 2020
Since its foundation in 1933 as part of the broadcasting activities of Radio Luxembourg, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) has embodied the cultural vitality of the country at the heart of Europe. From 1996, the OPL has been publicly administered, and in 2005 it took up residence at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, which is praised […]
Floor van der Holst on Oct 22, 2020
This album features all of the music played during the Royal Wedding of Prince Willem Alexander and Princess Máxima on 2 February 2002 in Amsterdam. Listening to the music of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert and many others brings back memories of that glorious day. Carel Kraayenhof’s stunning performance of Piazzolla’s ‘Adiós Nonino’ on bandoneon was […]
Floor van der Holst on Oct 16, 2020
A piano roll made in 1925, featuring the composer as soloist, is used on this new recording of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Jan Bouman played the French horn in the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. On the lookout for a new piano, he came across a pianola, a mechanical instrument with a reputation […]
Floor van der Holst on Oct 01, 2020
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 […]
Floor van der Holst on Apr 03, 2020
This album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore and pianist Bradley Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barber’s introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggie’s engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyd’s exploration of motherhood in The Mystery, Copland’s impressionist and oriental Four Early […]
Floor van der Holst on Jul 05, 2019
Each of the three selections on this album offers a journey into one miniature world after another – every one colorful, characterful, complete. Just as the Criers strive to honor each musician’s individual voice in the context of something larger, these works contextualise dozens of distinct visions, pulling them together into a wonderful form of […]
Floor van der Holst on Dec 21, 2018
Cuarteto Quiroga has just informed NativeDSD that they have won Spain’s National Music Award 2018! Congratulations to the Quiroga quartet members and the label Cobra Records. What an achievement. What an honour. Today, while we were rehearsing Boccherini, in our home, the Museo Cerralbo of Madrid, the phone rang: “we pass you with the […]
Floor van der Holst on Oct 06, 2018