Author: Guest Authors
Songlines Recordings compares different DSD rates
Written by Tony Reif (Producer, Songlines Recordings) When NativeDSD started making the Songlines high-res back catalogue available, I was very interested in checking out their Higher Rates Program. All our DSD recordings are from the 2000s and are therefore DSD64. Would I hear a significant improvement when remodulated by NativeDSD’s engineer Tom Caulfield at DSD256 […]
Pentatone – ‘Purcell: Dido & Aeneas’
“The only perfect English opera”, says Lindsay Kemp in the foreword to this issue, and artistic director David Bates elaborates this statement further: “…its strongest suit is its sense of theatre. By that I essentially mean contrast, the juxtaposition of differing moods, colours, orchestrations, songs. It constantly shifts from one thing to another in the […]
Review of Peter Takács ‘Complete Beethoven Sonatas’
The year 2011 saw the release by the Cambria label of Peter Takács’ complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle. The project had been set down between 2001 and 2007. The original release of eleven SACDs in Surround Sound was issued in a very lavish box, however, these 2000 sets had unfortunately sold out by 2016. A […]