It is once again time for NativeDSD to celebrate the year in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) music. With almost 80 music labels contributing to our listeners music enjoyment there is much to celebrate and enjoy. During 2021, the NativeDSD family of music labels released hundreds of DSD albums in a wide variety of musical […]
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 […]
This article dives into the possibilities of playing DSD, DXD and Very High Bit Rate PCM files on DACs, DAPs and Optical Disc Players Guaranteed Native DSD and DXD files NativeDSD.com is closely policing the origins of recordings and we only allow DSD, DXD or Very High Bit Rate PCM files, and analogue direct transfers […]
In VOX, Duo Rozemond & Bekkers combines new music for violin, voice and accordion with compositions by the great masters from a century ago: Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Satie. The new works are by the Dutch composers Willem Jeths, Gerard Beljon and the Jewish composers René Samson (Netherlands), Iván Fischer (Hungary) and Efrem Podgaits (Russia). […]
More than half of today’s new DSD releases are Pure DSD albums. The 4 new Pure DSD Albums are from Cobra Records, Channel Classics, Eudora Records, and Hunnia Records. These albums were recorded, mixed, and balanced in DSD. No post-production has been done. These albums stayed within the DSD domain throughout. All of them are […]
This week we have 4 new DSD albums available of which two are Pure DSD. 2 new reviews and a new bundle. Let’s get started! New albums at NativeDSD If you love jazz, and if you can appreciate stunning female vocalist backed by an incredible jazz quartet. This one’s for you!! Recorded Live to Stereo […]
Big News!! NativeDSD Music has just released the first-ever commercially available Sampler in DSD 1024. The 5 DSD Albums from which the Tracks derive are now also available in Stereo DSD 1024. Read more below. Patricia Barber’s Clique Today marks the long anticipated international release of “Clique!”, Patricia Barber’s brand new album. It features an inspired anthology of jazz and […]
Today we bring you 2 New DSD Albums, 1 New DSD Bundle, 1 New Analog Tape, and a New DSD Album of the Week! 2 New DSD Albums Performed by: Marianne Thorsen, violin – Eivind Ringstad, viola – Fredrik Sjölin, cello – Trondheim Symphony Orchestra- Peter Szilvay, conductor, on 2L. Ståle Kleiberg’s concertos unfold in […]
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 […]
Octavia Records has granted NativeDSD Music permission to offer albums from their DSD catalog to customers worldwide, from all the labels they represent. Some listeners may be familiar with the Exton, Triton, Cryston and Audio Lab labels. Their DSD Classical and Jazz recordings are coming to the NativeDSD Store for your musical enjoyment! The first […]
NativeDSD Reviewer Bill Dodd interviewed Sarah Kapustin & Roeland Jagers about their brand new DSD Album “Reflections” for violin and viola. Out now on Navis Classics. Why is the album entitled “Reflections”? R: We were playing with the idea of a musical conversation, featuring the recurring theme of canons and imitation throughout the album. The […]
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 […]