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Military bands are common, some are good, few are better. The Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy clearly belongs to the latter category, as […]
Adrian Quanjer on Nov 25, 2019
What does “Modern” mean? What does “Contemporary” mean? In the world of Classical Music, composers and their works generally have to wait 50 years or […]
Bill Dodd on Sep 10, 2019
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 […]
Floor van der Holst on Jul 05, 2019
How many will actually hear that these symphonies are played by only 9 musicians? Ernst Spyckerelle, responsible for all the arrangements, puts it this way, […]
This month, NativeDSD’s Label of the Month is Cobra Records. Cobra Records is an independent “fair trade” label with acoustic recordings in the highest possible […]
Bill Dodd on Jun 27, 2019
Is it a crime to listen to ALL of the Fifth Symphonies by the various composers that are available at the NativeDSD Music Store today? […]
Bill Dodd on Feb 15, 2019
You might recall, in my blog post from this past October I wondered: “Is it Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov?” About 75 percent of the listings at […]
Bill Dodd on Jan 24, 2019
Craig Zeichner is the Associate Director of Marketing and Copy at Carnegie Hall. He was the Editor of Sony’s Ariama website, and a marketing executive […]
Craig Zeichner on Dec 07, 2018
Is it Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov? When I was a kid, people weren’t too sure about how to spell Tchaikovsky. In those days you could find […]
Bill Dodd on Oct 12, 2018
I’ve certainly covered a lot of wonderful recordings in doing 28 of these blogs, but occasionally there are some that get left behind. So I’ve […]
Bill Dodd on Aug 10, 2018
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 […]
Bill Dodd on Jun 19, 2018
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 […]
Bill Dodd on Apr 18, 2018
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