Aaaaand that’s a wrap! The voting ballot is closed, your voices have been heard and recorded. Below you can find all of the Winners for our Albums of the Year Awards 2025. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote during this process. We take great pleasure in looking back over the year […]
It’s that exciting time of year again… time for our Album of the Year Awards process! 2025 has given us a plethora of new music to discover – just check out these stats: Classical Albums400+ Jazz Albums100+ Pure DSD Albums41 New Labels11 Total New Albums550+ Highlighting and honouring the highest quality DSD music is what […]
It’s that exciting time of year again… time to begin our Album of the Year Awards process! 2025 has given us a plethora of new music to discover – just check out these stats: Classical Albums400+ Jazz Albums100+ Pure DSD Albums41 New Labels11 Total New Albums550+ Highlighting and honouring the highest quality DSD music is […]
It’s that exciting time of year again… time to begin our Album of the Year Awards process! 2025 has given us a plethora of new music to discover – just check out these stats: Classical Albums400+ Jazz Albums100+ Pure DSD Albums41 New Labels11 Total New Albums550+ Highlighting and honouring the highest quality DSD music is […]
View Original My meanderings in music over the past few weeks have surfaced some nice releases at NativeDSD, with quite varied selections to share. We have three new Pure DSD releases from Hunnia Records, APSoon Records, and Octave Records (good to see them back in the Pure DSD game). And we have music ranging from […]
View Original Recordings of Significance, New and Reissued I am reluctant to suggest recordings of special merit. So many recordings I get to hear are excellent, both musically and sonically. So, my goal here is not to suggest any sort of “best of” but instead to highlight recordings of significance that are moving the art […]
View Original Anna Fedorova is, to me, one of the most exquisite pianists performing today. Her interpretative skills are subtle, inventive, and completely engaging. And her technical skills are simply amazing. When she performs, I just slide into a very happy place listening to her. Her most recent release is delightful. Liberté, Anna Fedorova, Orquesta […]
View Original Offered for your perusal are thoughts on six releases to be found at NativeDSD. Included are two outstanding performances of Prokofiev’s symphonies by Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO (the Fourth and Sixth); a first recording from Jared Sacks’ newly opened residential recording studio in Pure DSD256, giving us a glimpse of more nice […]
This post was originally written by Rushton Paul for Positive feedback, and it is reposted here with their generous permission. View Original Today we have a wonderful organ recording from Base2 Music, one that was included in my earlier article, Outstanding Organ Recordings in DSD256 and DXD (HERE), but am only now getting to writing […]
View Original Tom Peeters is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Cobra Records, which he founded in the fall of 2000. As founder, recording engineer, mastering engineer, and producer of nearly 100 exquisite albums released on the Cobra Records label over these years, Tom has many accomplishments for which his work should be celebrated. And he […]
Listen and fall in love as two world-class artists make this album of French art songs by Debussy and Messiaen into something magical. Magdalena Kazena’s voice is intimate, sensual, and rich with feeling. Mitsuko Uchida’s accompaniment is a perfect partnership. Together, they make these songs mesmerizing. I was instantly transported to a dreamlike setting. […]
View Original Article It is celebration time, folks. Jared Sacks has launched a new label, Pelle D’oca (“Goosebumps” in Italian), with a stunning new recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. And the cherry on the top is that this release is in PURE DSD256! Recorded and mixed entirely in the DSD* domain, with no PCM, with no trip out […]