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New DSD Music!
6 Albums, 1 EP and 1 Bundle

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This week we are releasing 6 New DSD Albums, 1 New DSD EP and 1 New DSD Bundle. These excellent recordings should help you get through the weekend with a smile!

This is the final weekend to enjoy the 20% discount in Dodd’s DSD Discoveries: The Pentatone Edition!

According to Senior NativeDSD Reviewer Bill Dodd, these 17 DSD Albums are Pentatone’s tip of the iceberg, the crème de la crème, the cherry on top, the must-haves. We hope you will enjoy the read and the 20% discount, which ends on Monday May 10th.

A new DSD Review from Adrian Quanjer “The man at the keyboard, or how to solve a collector’s headache“ is now published on the NativeDSD blog. He reviewed Kristian Bezuidenhout’s release “Haydn – Piano Sonatas“, available from the harmonia mundi label at NativeDSD.

And as always on Fridays, we reveal our new Album of the Week!
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This album features song cycles which present Channa Malkin’s intimately personal perspective on motherhood with music by 20th and 21st century composers Mieczysław Weinberg, Sir John Tavener, and her father Josef Malkin. Her choice of program is bound together by the all-Russian text (Malkin’s native language), family ties and cultural heritage through her father’s and Weinberg’s songs, and the distinctly female voice coming through the text in all three works with the poetry of leading writers including Gabriela Mistral and Anna Akhmatova set to music by Weinberg, Tavener and Josef Malkin.

Channa Malkin said, “Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I can put into words. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been a blessing to work on this highly personal project inspired by my son Ezra.”

Channa Malkin is a singer known for her broad repertoire, from Italian baroque opera to Sephardic chamber music. She is a recent nominee of the Grachtenfestival Prize 2020 and debuted at the age of 17 as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Dutch National Opera. She has since performed on the operatic and concert stages and in song recitals across Europe and the United States.

Recorded in December 2020 in the main hall of the Philharmonie Haarlem, this album highlights the quality of sound achieved by the young TRPTK label. Founded in 2014 by producer Brendon Heinst, the label is known for its sonic immersion through perfect spatial and timbral fidelity using multichannel processes and its celebration of ‘liveness’.

Channa Malkin’s “profound storytelling” with her programming, combined with the immersive quality of this TRPTK reference release, has served to create a unique album underlining her artistic values and bringing to light both familiar and unknown works through the lens of a mother, woman and musician.

Channa Malkin - Soprano
Artem Belogurov - Piano
Maya Fridman - Cello

For this recording, the double bass, and its faithful friend the piano, have journeyed extensively, bringing home a rich booty of musical discoveries, ‘stolen pearls’ from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Argentina, Germany, Austria, the USA, Russia, and Italy.

It marks the debut recording of the Oyster Duo. However, double bassist Nicholas Schwartz (Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam) and concert pianist Anna Fedorova are certainly not new to each other. They have been playing music as a duo and in larger chamber music settings for many years. And they are newlyweds, too.

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The pieces on this album are some of the favorites of our repertoire over the last 5 years. We chose music which, although not written for the double bass, naturally suits it and enhances it with its deep and rich tones. The music highlights the vocal qualities, diverse genre styles and virtuoso capabilities of the instrument and its player.
– Nicholas & Anna

Nicholas Schwartz - Double Bass
Anna Fedorova - Piano

Watch the video on the Album Page. Where will they hide the stolen pearl necklace...?

Axel Borup-Jørgensen lived a quiet life as a composer, piano teacher and avid concert-goer. Never attached to an academic post or, active as a performing musician, he thrived as a beloved outsider, continuing to develop his intensely personal style until his death on October 15, 2012. A meticulous modernist, who worked towards an ever-increasing clarity, his music is characterized by its concentrated language and fine graduation of expression.

Despite being a competent pianist, Borup-Jørgensen’s output for the instrument was surprisingly small, but he wrote for the instrument throughout entire career. The works on this program represent an overview of his works for solo piano, spanning nearly fifty years, from the early Passacaglia for piano Op. 2b (1948) to the crystalline raindrop interludes Op. 144 (1994). Borup-Jørgensen’s writing for the piano is remarkably consistent, favoring exquisitely crafted phrases over virtuoso displays, but this music is by no means simple; these incredibly detailed scores require the utmost concentration from the player!

Erik Kaltoft is the ideal interpreter for this demanding repertoire. Boasting an impressive resume as a contemporary music specialist, with the first performances of more than 200 works by such composers as Per Nørgård, Gunnar Berg and Bent Lorentzen to his credit, Kaltoft was also the composer’s friend and frequent collaborator for almost 45 years.

Recorded in the DXD audio format (Digital eXtreme Defination) 352.8 kHz/32 bit, by Danish Grammy nominated producer Preben Iwan.

Erik Kaltoft - Piano & Celesta

The smallest fluctuations and nuances in Axel Borup-Jørgensen’s music can have the impact of an earthquake. It is a music born out of stillness. It is a quiet modernism, where the silences speak just as insistently as the few, but decisive, outbursts.

The present recording provides an overview of Borup-Jørgensen’s small but highly distinctive oeuvre for organ. Borup-Jørgensen’s unique – and surprisingly, numerous works for the “King of Instruments” set him apart from many of his contemporaries. In addition to writing highly individual solo works, six of the pieces recorded here call for additional musicians from Strophen (1962), an expressionistic setting of a text by Rainer Maria Rilke for voice and organ, to Portal for percussion and organ Opus 181 (2009), a work composed for concert in honor of his 85th birthday.

Joining organist Jens E. Christensen on this sonic journey is percussionist Mathias Reumert, mezzo-soprano Pia Rose Hansen, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, bass-baritone Jakob Bloch Jespersen, and Lars Sømod, second organist on organo per due Opus 133.1 (1989).

Christensen plays the historic organ at Vor Frelsers Church, Copenhagen, a glorious Baroque instrument built by the Botzen Brothers 1698-1700. Even silent, the instrument is an imposing structure, with over 4000 pipes, housed in an ornately decorated case sculpted by Christian Nerger, featuring a bust of King Christian V at the center.

This album is Recorded in the DXD audio format (Digital eXtreme Definition), 352.8 kHz/32bit by Grammy nominated producer Preben Iwan.

Jens E. Christensen - Organ
Mathias Reumert – Percussion
Pia Rose Hansen – Mezzo-Soprano
Mahan Esfahani – Harpsichord
Jakob Bloch Jespersen – Bass Baritone
Lars Sømod – Organ (second organist on Organo per due Opus 133.1)

This album was recorded during a live concert held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi in Rome on November 12th, 2004.
Recording and production are by Giulio Cesare Ricci in collaboration with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia – Foundation.

The great violinist Uto Ughi during the concert played the Guarneri del Gesù violin, ex Grumiaux, masterfully interpreting some of his “masterpieces” such as the Concerto in la min. n.1 per violino e archi BWV 1041 – J.S.Bach, il Concerto in re min. n.4 per violino e Orchestra – N.Paganini and an emotional Meditation da “Thais” per violino e Orchestra – J. Massenet. Finally, the repertoire of this album is also enriched by the Symphony Op. 3 n.1 – C. Bach.

The choice of this location was dictated by its particular acoustics which allowed to obtain a very special result. For this recording Giulio Cesare Ricci used the original tube microphones Neumann U47, U48 and M49 and all its equipment: mike pre-amplifiers, line, digital, microphone and supply cables Signoricci. Recorded in Stereo DSD on Pyramix using dCS A/D and D/A converters. Also for this recording Giulio Cesare Ricci used a “field effect” recording technique, natural sound, without the use of equalizers, no sound expansion and compression systems.

Uto Ughi - Violin
I Filarmonici di Roma

With Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti made his breakthrough in the genre of tragic melodrama in 1835. Until then he had been more successful with comical bel canto operas in the tradition of Rossini.

The plot of Lucia is based on the then highly successful novel The Bride of Lammermoor by the Scottish writer Walter Scott. Lucia and Edgar, the young descendants of two warring Scottish noble families, are secretly in love and have sworn eternal loyalty. But Lucia’s brother forces his sister to marry someone else for political reasons during Edgar’s absence.

He can only get Lucia this far with a forged letter. Edgar does not know the background and accuses Lucia of treason. She stabs her groom to death on her wedding night, goes mad and dies shortly afterwards. The inconsolable Edgar follows her to death.

The gruesome material is very typical for the time it was made – the romantic age. Lucia was and is one of the prime roles of great sopranos such as Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland, who have helped the character to deepen and gain acceptance through singing and performing arts.

Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Zubin Metha - Music Director & Conductor

Groove Note vocalist Vanessa Fernandez has recorded a series of albums that consistently top the NativeDSD Music Best Seller Lists. Her releases feature top studio musicians from the L.A. music scene and music that includes classic Soul, Pop and Rock favorites plus a unique Acoustic Album that is a tribute to the music of Led Zeppelin. In addition, Fernandez has released a DSD Single of a rockin’ version of the Led Zeppelin classic “Whole Lotta Love”.

Now you can own all these Vanessa Fernandez releases at a very special price in this Vanessa Fernandez DSD Bundle. It’s an offer we think our listeners will find hard to pass up!

NativeDSD Bundles are a mini-collection of DSD albums created by the NativeDSD team that brings the works of a special artist, music label or musical genre to your personal library. Better yet, when you buy all the albums in a bundle, NativeDSD gives you a special discounted price on the full bundle. Expanding your musical horizons and collection while saving money at the same time. Each bundle is a DSD music opportunity and adventure we urge you to explore.

Dareyn with Emine Bostanci, Maya Fridman and Jacobus Thiele is the latest edition of TRPTK Sessions, a series of DSD Extended Play (DSD EP) releases. Recorded Live at Tivoli Vredenburg, Grote Zaal in Utrecht, Netherlands, this EP combines the beauty of the kemenche and cello and the rhythmic percussion drives it forward. TRPTK calls it “An Audiophile Must-Have!”

Emine Bostanci says “The magic happened! Once we started to work together, somehow, we found a way to even combine our sketch compositions with each other and they sounded like they were always meant to be together. Using our combined strengths, our repertoire takes its inspiration from the beauty of modality, the dynamic character of bowing and the rich world of rhythms. Beata in our first EP is a very good example of this collaboration.”

The EP is only available as a high resolution DSD and DXD download. NativeDSD brings this fine EP to our listeners in Stereo and Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, DXD and Stereo DSD 512.

Emine Bostancı – Kemenche
Maya Fridman – Cello
Jacobus Thiele – Percussion

A new DSD Review from Adrian Quanjer “The man at the keyboard, or how to solve a collector’s headache.“ is now published on the NativeDSD blog on Kristian Bezuidenhout’s new release “Haydn – Piano Sonatas“, available from the harmonia mundi label at NativeDSD.

A few years after a complete recording of Mozart’s solo piano works that has gradually come to be regarded as a benchmark, Kristian Bezuidenhout has taken all the time he needed to tackle Haydn, the other towering figure of the Viennese Classical keyboard repertory.

‘Preparing for this recording has been a vivid reminder that it is remarkably difficult to play Haydn’s music well, but that with enough care, and attention to detail, his music has the potential to come jumping from the page. It would be hubris to suggest that I am even close to unlocking any of its secrets, but I am so humbled by the sheer beauty, humanity, wit and delightful irony of this music, that the desire to continue is irresistible.’

Kristian Bezuidenhout - Fortepiano

A new, powerful, and original version of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody for Piano and Wind Orchestra plus a new version of Concert in F transcribed by Alessandro Celardi. It is performed by pianist Monaldo Braconi accompanied by the Ferentino Wind Orchestra conducted by Alessandro Celardi.

Available from NativeDSD in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, DXD, FLAC 192 and FLAC 96.

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