Over the years interpretation of Baroque music has seen some considerable changes, moving from slow, almost dragging performances to the more recent agitated, almost aggressive versions, all in the name of Historically Informed Practice, with a wide variety in between. A notable example is Hermann Scherchen’s 1960 LP set of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti. At the […]
What do the world-famous Dutch cellist, Anner Bijlsma, who passed away earlier this year, and his younger colleague, Wytske Holtrop, have in common? Both are closely linked to the same province in the Netherlands where Wytske’s cradle stood: Friesland. The next question then is: Do Friesians have something in their genes that produces cello players […]
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 […]
NativeDSD Music created its first-ever DSD 512 Sampler album in May 2019 to coincide with one of the largest audio shows of the world – Munich High End – as content for hardware partners presenting new DACs and Players capable of DSD 512 playback. Shortly after, 6 full-length Albums were released in DSD 512. Sounds […]
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 the NativeDSD Store use -ov, and the rest use -off. I tended toward the -ov, but good old Microsoft Spellcheck prefers -off. Searching can be an issue, so I suggest […]
NativeDSD is delighted to welcome AudioDefine Records’ first DSD release: Cask’s latest critically acclaimed 78-minute epic Life is a Terminal Illness. Since releasing “See What Tomorrow Brings” in July 2018, Cask has found himself a huge talking point among the progressive rock community; reaching number one in the Australian independent charts on ReverbNation. The analogue […]
Bring The Highest Studio Quality 5.1 Multichannel & Stereo DSD 256 Music Into Your Home Merging Technologies & NativeDSD Music This collaboration between Merging Technologies and NativeDSD.com gives you the ultimate opportunity to experience the ‘real thing’ at home. Finally, the days of recording and mastering engineers owning a higher quality Digital to Analog Converter […]
Yarlung Records’ producer Bob Attiyeh warms you up for their new DSD Release “Ciaramella – Dances On Movable Ground“ Dear friends, George Klissarov generously sponsored Yarlung’s first DSD releases. His Canadian company, exaSound, makes superb DACs that many of us in the NativeDSD community know and love. They vary from compact units that connect via […]
Following the Friday March 2nd release of Sestetto Stradivari: Brahms Sextets, NativeDSD publishes the personal notes from producer Igor Fiorini and first violinist David Romano. Recording these works by Brahms was a work in some ways unique and also the beginning of a new search. Brahms is poetry, distance, it is a painting that has to […]
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 […]