Dance The Night Away

I don’t often listen to suites from Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballets. Over the many years I was a mainstream commercial broadcaster I overdosed on those parts […]

Requiems: Crossing Over, Saying Farewell

In my last DSD Discoveries entry I compared the three recordings of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem available at NativeDSD. This time I thought I might […]

Discover five Classical Titles

It was a dark, drippy morning. Cable news was telling me that things were massively embarrassing, nonsensical, and other-worldly. Let’s face it. It was not […]

Strings and Things

Whether you call it a bull fiddle, a bass fiddle, a contrabass, a bass viol, a string bass, a double bass, or just a bass; […]

Surprises and Mind-Benders

Isn’t Bach amazing? So much music! So much precision! Truly Bach was a landmark composer. Knowing that, I was still not prepared for the ethereal […]

Just Can’t Get Away

Some things you just can’t get away from. Over the years I’ve acquired a rather silly number of recordings of Mussorgsky’s Night On A Bare […]

Russian DSD Discoveries

Three of my favorite composers are Russian, and they were contemporaries. Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Prokofiev, and Igor Stravinsky all left Russia in their younger years, […]

Channel Classics Discoveries

This is my 21st post, and I’m really happy that I’ve been able to help people get know about some great music! This time I’ve […]