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Schubert’s final piano sonata, a long and demanding testament Searching on the internet for the best interpreters of Schubert’s late sonatas, one invariably ends up […]
Adrian Quanjer on Apr 30, 2021
Bill Dodd has been listening to the entire Pentatone DSD catalog for many years. And extensively over the past 6 weeks for the purpose of […]
Bill Dodd on Apr 23, 2021
Reviewer Mark Werlin returns to the NativeDSD Blog with three DSD reviews. Each of them features works for duos and they are all recorded and […]
Mark Werlin on Apr 22, 2021
Unless you are lucky enough to have a box set of complete (?) piano sonatas, which only exists in the CD format, or, if that […]
Adrian Quanjer on May 07, 2021
What is the difference between the automobile market and the music record business? Not much. Sales statistics cover the mass market in either sector. But […]
Adrian Quanjer on Apr 13, 2021
Dodd’s DSD Discoveries #36 It’s been a while since I’ve wandered through the catalog looking for discoveries. I decided to look for some that would […]
Bill Dodd on Mar 25, 2021
It all starts in this small town in the south of the Netherlands, when he joins the local brassband playing the flugelhorn at the age […]
Jonas Sacks on Nov 10, 2020
It is not the first time that Chopin’s spiritual output has been used by other creative minds to rearrange or transcribe it for another instrument […]
Adrian Quanjer on Oct 29, 2020
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an incredibly prolific composer who was known throughout Europe during his lifetime. He was an ordained as a priest and was […]
Bill Dodd on Oct 09, 2020
I do not think that the Amsterdam Sinfonietta had anything else in mind than producing an album of “several romantic works, each with a very […]
Adrian Quanjer on Sep 29, 2020
I’ve always been a visual thinker. I don’t know why, but when I play I hear sound moving through space. It’s as if I’m painting […]
Jane Ira Bloom on Sep 17, 2020
Listen to Patricia Barber with an ear to the soul of the lyrics, and you’ll hear more than fine musicianship and superb audio recording. For more […]
Mark Werlin on Sep 11, 2020