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Blessing is the latest DSD album from the talented Rafael Mario Trio. The explorative Jazz album from Hunnia Records is a Pure DSD Stereo album exclusively available in its originally recorded resolution of DSD 256 at NativeDSD! Jazz guitarist Gábor Szalay and his trio play 6 Jazz classics on The Dreamer. Another Pure DSD Stereo album available from Hunnia Records in its recorded sample rate of DSD 256, exclusively at NativeDSD. Vivid Productions has a new classical album featuring Yuki Hyakutake and Masaharu Kanda, two of Japan’s top classical musicians. The Legacy of Duo Viola and Violoncello is exclusively available in Stereo DSD 512, 256, 128 and 64 at Native DSD. Long-time music reviewer Adrian Quanjer gives us another great review. Shadows is under the microscope this week on our Blog Page. |
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25% off selected titlesWe are celebrating American music with a 4th of July DSD Special!
Receive 25% OFF* selected albums that connected to American heritage. Scroll down to view some of our top picks |
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Our latest interview in the Meet the Magicians series features Bert van der Wolf of Turtle Records.
We are offering Bert’s selection of 3 Desert Island DSD Albums for 25% OFF until Tuesday, July 5th. In case you missed it: a new DSD Bundle is available for NativeDSD Listeners. The DSD Blues Bundle is a great chance to broaden your collection of top-quality and excellently recorded blues at 30% OFF. You can find our current 25% OFF Album of the Week offer at the bottom of this newsletter and on our Home page. |
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Happy Listening,
David & The NativeDSD Team *Offer ends Friday, July 1st end of day. Discount is applied automatically at checkout. It includes the new release! |
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New Pure DSD 256 ReleaseExclusively in Pure DSD at NativeDSD, not available on SACD |
| BlessingAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) This is a Pure DSD 256 recording, exclusively available at the recorded bit rate and format from NativeDSD!
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An Outstanding Pianist of His GenerationBlessing is a new Jazz album from the Rafael Mario Trio. All nine of the songs on the album were written by trio members Rafael Mario (tracks 1-6 and 9) and Bartok Vince (tracks 7-8). The album was created with the support of the Hungarian National Cultural Fund and Hangfoglalo. Rafael Mario was born in 1990 in Budapest and started playing the piano at the age of six. Even at a young age he already knew he wanted to be a musician all his life. While other kids were out playing ball he was practicing, while others were riding their bikes in Városliget (the central park of Budapest) he was still playing the piano, and he absorbed all the music in the world he could hear on the radio and later on the internet. Mario Rafael is one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation. He’s the winner of a great number of international competitions. 2018’s Junior Prima Prize is his most valued accomplishment. Mario got his master’s degree at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. During his time at the academy his desire to have some adventure had him move to Canada, where he lived and worked in Toronto for two years, performing, and recording for Phase One Studio as a session pianist. After returning home he founded the Rafael Mario Trio with his peers from the academy. The band play their own compositions and are frequent performers of the Hungarian jazz scene. Mario’s music is full of emotion and romance. This is a PureDSD album exclusively available in Stereo DSD 512, Stereo DSD 256, 128 and 64 from NativeDSD.Com |
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New Pure DSD 256 ReleaseExclusively in Pure DSD at NativeDSD, not available on SACD |
| The DreamerAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) This is a Pure DSD 256 recording, exclusively available at the recorded bit rate and format from NativeDSD!
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Two guitars and a double bassThe Dreamer features The Gabor Szalay Trio performing six Jazz Classics. Including Alone Together by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, There Will Never Be Another You by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Body And Soul by Johnny Green, Edward Herman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton, Waltz New by Jim Hall, St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins and In Walked Bud by Thelonious Monk. The title track – The Dreamer – was written by Gabor Szalay. We were asked to record this album with a line-up of two guitars and a double bass by Mr. Róbert Zoltán Hunka at Hunnia Records. He had heard this material earlier when I played together in a trio with the late great guitar maestro, Gyula Babos and excellent bass player, Viktor Hárs. This album is a tribute to that outfit. We tried to recreate the spirit of the trio by using similar material. In place of the late Gyula Babos, my friend, the excellent István Gyárfás plays the other guitar. The material is made up of well known standards with the exception of “The Dreamer” which was composed by myself earlier, but on the album, it’s dedicated to Gyula in memoriam. We only recorded just one take of each song and made absolutely no corrections afterwards in order to give it a live feel. - Gábor Szalay |
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New DSD ReleaseExclusively in DSD, not available on SACD |
| The Legacy of Duo: Viola and VioloncelloAvailable in Stereo DSD (up to DSD 512) Booklet | |
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Pride of Japan, In a Beautiful HallBefore beginning this recording session we discussed the main goals of the recording. Tatsuhiko Nishioka, the producer on the project, stated that he wanted to "clearly capture the touch of two masters whom Japan is proud of." The artists wanted to "make a recording that makes the most of the ambience and reverb sound of the hall." The Wien Hall in Tokyo where the recording was made has a profound sound and a rich history of great recordings. |
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“Two Spanish musicians, whom I did not know before, embarked last year on a mission to bring works of great beauty, for too long hidden in the shadow of great masters, back into the general public’s interest. We ought to thank Cellist Lorenzo Meseguer and Pianist Mario Mora and all those having made this release possible for their contribution to the broadening of our classical music heritage.” - Adrian Quanjer |
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4th of July SpecialReceive 25% OFF selected albums to celebrate music of America!
Offer ends July 8th, end of day.
Discount will be applied automatically at checkout.
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| An American Song AlbumAn American Song Album by Melody Moore is her 4th DSD release at NativeDSD Music and her first solo album. It is a new album that has been called "Diverse, But Unmistakenably American". | |
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| Center StageThese recordings were made in a historic concert hall on the campus of Hampton University in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The history of the hall is somewhat parallel to Carnegie Hall in New York; however, the hall is smaller, without much protection from external noise. | |
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| Holland America LineThe Dutch vocal group Frommermann is named after Harry Frommermann, who in 1927 founded the Comedian Harmonists. This German ensemble, comprised of five singers and a pianist, was a huge sensation in the late 1920s and early 1930s. | |
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| The Fascinating George GershwinFollowing a number of successful duo performances by violinist Vesko Eshkenazy and pianist Ludmil Angelov, the idea of recording an album with the two of them began to take shape. Ludmil suggested doing something with music of George Gershwin. | |
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| AmericaAmerica from pianist and composer Claudio Constantini features works by George Gershwin, Astor Piazzolla, and Constantini. Released by IBS Classical, it gained instant recognition by music critics as a "masterpiece." | |
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| LifelineMichelle Mayne-Graves and her Lifeline Quartet perform spirituals from the Civil War and earlier celebrating code songs for the Underground Railroad. These spirituals include hidden messages about maps, navigational strategies and timing for slaves to escape toward freedom in the Northern States and Canada. | |
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| Bernstein: Candide (Double Album)Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein’s riotous satirical operetta 'Candide'. | |
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| Spirit of the American RangeGeorge Antheil, the self-described “bad boy of music,” made a splash wherever he went. Before his better- known contemporaries George Gershwin and Darius Milhaud followed suit, Antheil incorporated the sounds and styles of jazz into classical music as early as 1922 with his first symphony “Zingaresca.” | |
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| Empty Triangles (Exclusive Native DSD Edition)Available in Stereo DSD (up to 512) Exclusively available in DSD from NativeDSD! Booklet | |
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Electronic Music That Bends GenresEmpty Triangles releases their debut self-titled Electronic Music album. It features 13 of the finest instrumental tracks that bend genres surrounding vaporwave, retrowave, and synthwave. This Electronic Music project from Audio Define aims to get the best sound out of classic hardware synthesizers. The Exclusive NativeDSD Edition of Empty Triangles features a flat transfer of the instrumental self-titled debut album from the Original Analog Master Tape. All the DSD Bit Rates have been created in the DSD Domain by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield using the Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro mastering tools. Audio Define says "The result of this DSD release is drastically different from the digital release of the album available on streaming services and other digital stores. This edition is a NativeDSD Exclusive." |
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