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It’s a big week at NativeDSD, That means big news, big releases, and big specials! We hope you will be able to grab some items from your wish list, our current best sellers, all-time best sellers, or our home-grown albums? |
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Storewide Spring Special |
To kick off all the fun, we just launched our annual Storewide Spring Special. From now until June 1st, all NativeDSD listeners will receive 15% OFF ALL Album purchases at NativeDSD.com! NativeDSD Plus Members get 25% off all Album purchases. *Offer ends June 1st, end of day, CET (Central European Time). Discount applied automatically at checkout. |
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Pentatone Spotlight |
In the spotlight this week are our friends at Pentatone. In addition to their two latest releases Schoenberg Messiaen Ravel and Verdi: La Traviata in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD, they are also offering 40% OFF selected albums for the next week. See the full offer below. *offer ends May 27, end of day, CET (Central European Time). |
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New Music |
Nuït, the latest release from TRPTK, is an expressive and improvisational conversation between cello and piano. Accomplished pianist Naum Grubert pays tribute to two iconic composers on his latest album Celebrating Franck and Scriabin! OurRecordings have a new release exploring the Virtuoso Baroque. Eudora is giving NativeDSD Plus Members an exclusive early release* of their latest recording. Shadows is a PureDSD classical album highlighting four composers from central Europe whose careers have been historically overshadowed. *Available early to NativeDSD Plus Members. |
Happy Listening,
David & The NativeDSD Team p.s. Did you know that you can support Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees? If you purchase Music for a Time of War (Pure DSD) from NativeDSD, all proceeds go to Giro 555, a Dutch aid alliance. |
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€10 OFF NativeDSD PlusDuring our Storewide Spring Special, you can save €10 Euro* off the cost of a yearly NativeDSD Plus subscription. Member Benefits include:Year-round 10% discount on all music, on top of any other specials. This means during this storewide sale, get 25% off everything! Get all lower DSD rates included in any DSD 128, DSD 256 or DSD 512 purchase. Play the compatible DSD rate on different audio setups (DAC’s, DAPs, Optical Disc players with DSD) across your listening locations and devices. Exclusive access to pre-releases. (such as the Exclusive Eudora Early Release this week)
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Discount valid during our Spring Special, and applied to the first year of membership, and calculated automatically during checkout. *Or equivalent currency |
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| Schoenberg Messiaen RavelAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and DXD Available in 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD (up to DSD 256) and DXD
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40% OFF selected albums with the release of this album. |
Three Different Composers, One Common LinkThis album includes three works for piano and orchestra from the middle years of the twentieth century. Though stylistically very different, all three have American connections. Ravel’s Concerto in G Major (1932) was his most successful attempt to integrate elements of American jazz into his own musical language; Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (1942) was composed in Los Angeles, where Schoenberg was exiled after fleeing Europe; and Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques (1956) took as its main source of inspiration a series of gramophone records of American birdsong. |
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| Verdi: La TraviataAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and DXD Available in 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD (up to DSD 256) and DXD
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40% OFF selected albums with the release of this album. |
A Heartrending And Provocative TragedyThe Dresdener Philharmonie, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and conductor Daniel Oren present Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, together with a stellar cast including René Barbera as Alfredo, Lester Lynch as Germont, and world star soprano Lisette Oropesa as Violetta. Verdi’s opera from 1853 was revolutionary in the sense that it presented a subject of its own time, rather than the usual historically remote stories. Interestingly enough, this tragic story of a woman sacrificing her love to save the honour of her beloved’s family still feels as fresh and topical as ever before, explaining its unrelenting popularity. |
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Exclusive Early ReleaseExclusive Early Access available to NativeDSD Plus Members only. |
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| Shadows (PureDSD)Available in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and in 5 Channel Surround Sound (up to DSD 256)
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Overshadowed Works Brought to the Spotlight |
In this wonderful recording, cellist Lorenzo Meseguer and pianist Mario Mora bring together four composers who have historically been undervalued. We have Fanny Mendelssohn, who was overshadowed by her younger brother Felix. He in turn, despite being a very significant composer, was also denigrated by some European musicologists in the early 20th century, in part because of his Jewish origins. Then there’s Clara Schumann, whose fame was eclipsed by that of her husband Robert. Our final composer is Gustav Jenner, who was Brahms’s only composition pupil, towards the end of the latter’s life. - Lorenzo Maseguer |
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Or wait until the official release date: June 3, 2022 |
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| NuïtAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and DXD Available in 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD (up to DSD 256) and DXD
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A Tribute to the Goddess of the Night SkyIn August 2020 the adventurous cellist Maya Fridman met pianist and conductor Maarten van Veen, with whom she felt an immediate musical click. Something magical happened between Fridman and Van Veen and both felt simultaneously that something unique was developing between them. They had deep conversations and came up with the extraordinary idea of recording a completely improvised recital with ‘Nuit’, the Ancient Egyptian goddess of the universe, as the central theme. Inspired by the Egyptian myth, we also feel the need of sharing musical moments being aware that we are all part of the universe and somehow connected. We hope that inner wish can make a change in the world, just like Maya and I connected through the improvisations that we now share. - Maarten van Veen |
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| Celebrating Franck and Scriabin!Available in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and DXD
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Two Memorable Composers 50 Years ApartCelebrating Franck and Scriabin! is pianist Naum Grubert’s third DSD release at NativeDSD.Com on the Navis Classics label. When I first thought of recording on the same album Franck’s Prelude, Chorale and Fugue and selected early works by Scriabin, I had no inkling that the two composers were born exactly fifty years apart, and when the album was released in 2022 the world would be celebrating the bicentenary of Franck’s birth and 150th anniversary of Scriabin’s. I simply thought that, despite their largely incompatible creative objectives, their music belonged together. That a mysterious link existed between these two composers on some level, a link that would make them comfortable sharing the same album. – Naum Grubert (piano) |
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| Virtuoso BaroqueAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) and DXD
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A Special 20th Anniversary AlbumIt is only fitting that Michala and Hannibal have decided to return to their roots as one of the preeminent early music duos, and have selected a truly BAROQUE program, in every sense of the word. More than a mere program of showstoppers, they have used their talents to hold up a mirror to our own time and redefine masterworks that will both delight their fans and invite all of us to listen to these astonishing works with new ears. |
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Pentatone SpecialFor the next week, Pentatone is offering 40% off selected albums below. Act now to discover amazing recordings at a great price. |
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*offer ends May 27, end of day, CET (Central European Time) |
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| Pelléas & MélisandeThis album presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande. | |
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Strauss, Debussy & LigetiExtraordinary works of three twentieth-century composers with diverse cultural backgrounds. | |
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| Silk BaroqueThis album brings together Wu Wei and Holland Baroque. It features a program of Baroque Music with beautiful Sheng sounds. | |
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Telemann PolonoisePolonoise is a program for curious listeners who want to discover a different side of Telemann. Holland Baroque and violinist Aisslinn Nosky explore how Telemann applied the Polish style in his own works. | |
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| Brabant 1653In the album Brabant 1653, Holland Baroque explores the monastic musical traditions of 17th-century North Brabant. | |
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Ombra CompagnaSoprano Lisette Oropesa presents her solo debut album Ombra Compagna, a kaleidoscope of concert arias by Mozart, whose music is very dear to her heart. | |
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| Vincerò!Global star tenor Piotr Beczala presents Vincerò!, a collection of heart-wrenching opera arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea. | |
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p.s. There is no Album of the Week due to our Storewide Spring Special. The Album of the Week will return on June 3. Thanks for reading our news! If you have suggestions, comments or questions, please feel free to reach out via support@nativedsd.com |
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