I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with none other than Doug Fearn. As an audio engineer, founder and owner of D.W. Fearn, and most recently co-founder of Outer Marker Records, Doug has a toe in nearly every pool of the music world. It was a blast to speak to him about his life […]
The surprise couldn’t be grander. In his liner notes Ralph Rousseau tells us that except for a handful of Viola da Gamba players, few have for a long time been aware of Carl Friedrich Abel’s Sonatas. I, too, was not all too familiar with many of them. With this TRPTK release, the surprise couldn’t be […]
It is said that many good things have their origin in bad times.The proof is here. No matter what national policies had to be followed, fact is that over the past two years most of international cultural life came to an abrupt halt. Empty venues, concerts postponed, musicians hoping for better times. However, and thanks […]
To celebrate the release of this wonderful new album ‘Ray!’, NativeDSD Music offers a 20% discount on the earlier albums of Carmen Gomes Inc. until January 10th, 2022: – Carmen Gomes sings the Blues (click here)– Up Jumped The Devil (click here)– Don’t You Cry (click here) Carmen Gomes Inc. release new album: Ray! “We […]
Guitarist Enno Voorhorst has just released the album “840” on Cobra Records. It features the guitarist playing compositions from Satie, Poulenc, Andriessen and Françaix. Since, we have received some questions about John Cage’s composition 4’33 and Enno Voorhorst promptly offered to write a blog about John Cage and Erik Satie. Of course, Enno Voorhorst also […]
We wanted to know more about the recent album ‘Russian Paintings‘ by the Russian Terem Quartet on the Russian ReachSound Art label. So we went ahead and asked the two founding members – Andrey Konstantinov and Andrey Smirnov – some questions. 🙂 Why is the album called Russian Painting? Andrey Konstantinov The album is called […]
This is one of my Audiophile Italy publications, translated to English. The original section name is “Audiophile Alerts”. And all of these albums are available at NativeDSD! A very fresh release is this one from LSO Live, the label that records the best concerts of the London Symphony Orchestra. The occasion is invaluable for listening […]
Theremin and Electric violin Producer’s Note from Alexey Pogarskiy It’s interesting that the word невесомость (weightlessness) appeared in Russian only about a hundred years ago, coined in the early 20th century by artist Kazimir Malevich creator of the famous “Black Square”. Today everyone understands what is meant by this term even though it has really […]
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, “How can we expand the repertoire for nonet, uncover the chamber music in orchestral pieces, while also working our own group sound?” And: “Making a musical arrangement is best compared […]
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 listening to this new release will amply confirm. Run of the mill Oompah bands have their much-rewarded and appreciated social function in village life, but here we are dealing with […]
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 introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggie’s engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyd’s exploration of motherhood in The Mystery, Copland’s impressionist and oriental Four Early […]
