Accompanying her debut at NativeDSD, cellist Alisa Weilerstein writes a personal note about the repertoire, ensemble and recording session. An intensely beautiful account of the thoughts and experiences behind this new DSD Release from PENTATONE: Alisa Weilerstein & Trondheim Soloists: “Transfigured Night”. Schoenberg fled Vienna in 1934, four years before my grandparents escaped. So, as […]
Here’s the story of how Groove Note Records and NativeDSD got to know each other, started collaborating and as a result… release the first four Groove Note DSD Albums at the NativeDSD Store today! It started in irvine, where a well known high end audio distributor Philip O’ Hanlon from On A Higher Note was demonstrating some […]
After Antonio Lysy won Yarlung’s first GRAMMY® Award for Music from Argentina and Te Amo, Argentina (both available on NativeDSD) we have looked forward to collaborating again, especially to include a Swiss recording of the Kodaly Duo with Antonio’s father the eminent Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy. Kudos and thanks to Claude Cellier at Merging Technologies, our executive producer who made […]
TRPTK Sessions is a new initiative from TRPTK. Every month one artist gets invited to the recording studio to perform a triptych of three pieces. A triptych is a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together. After recording, all remains unedited, unpolished, in its pure and raw form, […]
From the middle Ages to Baroque to Classical Romantic, Western music has changed the look of musical instruments as well as musical technique. In the early days, the music played in the church and the court became popular to public and as a result, instruments have been changed to sound bigger and farther. It is […]
An interview with founders Jared Sacks, Managing Director & Jonas Sacks, Technical Director, just before the festive moment that NativeDSD reached 1,000 DSD albums: early September 2016. Q.: What does it feel like to have released over 1,000 albums in DSD in just over 2 years? It feels like we have only just begun to […]
Abstract A new drug – no, but a new “can’t‐be‐without‐it‐anymore” audio format bursting into our listening rooms. Direct Stream Digital (DSD) actually has been around for a while already, but it has been so married to a physical media, SACD, that it has yet to receive the attention from audiophiles that it deserves. It is […]