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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 18 - More Bert van der Wolf Recordings

If you've followed along with some of my other articles, you may have picked up on how much I admire the recordings made by Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording Services (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE). Bert ranks very highly among a small group of highly talented independent...

The Magic of Bert van der Wolf

Rushton Paul

"Life is a magical mystery; Bert has no part in any of that…" - Bert van der Wolf Producer, recording and mastering engineer Bert van der Wolf, owner of Northstar Recording Services, has been making among the best engineered classical recordings one will find. I've written before about his recordings...

Interview with Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording

Rushton Paul

The following is an interview with recording engineer Bert van der Wolf, chief recording engineer, producer and founder of Northstar Recording Services, many of whose wonderful recordings have been reviewed at Positive Feedback (see list of reviews HERE). He records frequently for the Challenge Classics label whose DSD64 releases are...

Four Superb Recordings from Bert van der Wolf, Northstar Recording

Rushton Paul

Bert van der Wolf is one of the best recording engineers in the business today. His recordings have only gotten better and better over the years as he's been able to incorporate into his recording chain the latest developments in high end technology. I've written many times in these pages...

Magic from the Van Baerle Trio and Bert van der Wolf

Rushton Paul

It's rare that one gets to experience a true tour de force, but that is what I've enjoyed the past several months with the Van Baerle Trio's traversal of Beethoven's complete works for piano trio—a marvelous journey through some of the greatest music ever written. I've long held the Beaux...

Ruminations - What We Hear in HDTT Versus Modern Recordings

Rushton Paul

Beware! Wildly broad generalizations coming below... Interesting conversations get started over morning cappuccinos in our household. Today, the discussion was about files from the HDTT (High Definition Tape Transfer) catalog versus modern recordings from the NativeDSD catalog. Ann opined that, overall, she found the NativeDSD files in our library were...

The Bruckner Symphonies with Jaap van Zweden

Rushton Paul

The Bruckner symphonies cycle from Jaap van Zweden and the North Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, as recorded by Bert van der Wolf, is a superb accomplishment. It deserves a home in the music libraries of all music lovers—particularly those of us who value Bruckner. Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 6, and...

AudioQuest Mythical Creatures - ThunderBird, FireBird, and Dragon

Dirk Sommer

The Mythical Creatures first appeared among the power cords. Then we spotted them among the speaker cables, and more recently, my colleague Wolfgang Kemper tracked down a few HDMI cable specimens. Now, Richard Drees, Sales Director for Germany, and Rob Hay, Marketing Director for Europe, released the NF cable variants...

A Schubert Symphony Cycle to Savor - Jan Willem de Vriend

Rushton Paul

Jan Willem de Vriend and the Residentie Orkest The Hague give us a symphony cycle to savor, the symphonies of Franz Schubert in glorious high resolution audio. This is a great cycle of the complete symphonies, with one more volume to come. Highly recommended. Schubert, The Complete Symphonies, Volumes 1-3,...

Notes of an Amateur: Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir; Christian Wolff; Péteris Vasks

Bob Neill

…all descriptions of music are quite worthless & rather unpleasant; they are apt to be hysterical & to say things the people will be ashamed of having said afterwards. V. Woolf, Diary. Vigilate. English Polyphony in Dangerous Times. Monterverdi Choir, John Elliot Gardiner. Soli Deo Gloria SDG 720. It...

Notes of an Amateur: Cellist Hee-Young Lim Plays French Concertos; a Brilliant New Brahms's Violin Concerto Performance by Augustin Hadelich; Podger does Bach’s Cello Suites on Violin; Wilhelmina Smith plays Salonen’s and Saariaho’s Solo Cello Works; Christian Wolff's Orchestra Pieces.

Bob Neill

I apologize for the long time between review articles and for the briefness of these: As I pass age 80, I am becoming more modest about the worth of what I have to say and am also beginning to play the age card. Hee-Young Lim, cello; London Symphony Orchestra. French...

Notes from Recent Finds, No. 17 - Releases from NativeDSD

Rushton Paul

I'm excited about this most recent group of Recent Finds, all released over this past year at NativeDSD. Included are a great new album from Carmen Gomes and Sound Liaison, a new Rembrandt Frerichs album on Just Listen Records, Anna Fedorova and Dana Zemtsov on Channel Classics, several albums from...

Kuijken and La Petite Bande - Remastered in Original DXD Resolution!

Rushton Paul

With La Petite Bande's 50th anniversary in 2022, Challenge Records celebrated with the release of a nine CD box set, which you may have seen. All nice, but that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about something even more wonderful: the release of the original DXD...

Hannes Minnaar Performing Shostakovich, Beethoven and More

Rushton Paul

I've written before about the recordings of pianist Hannes Minnaar (see HERE and HERE). I'm writing now to share with you a new solo piano recording of the Shostakovich 24 Preludes (a marvel), an earlier recording of piano works inspired by Bach, and a scrumptious complete cycle of the Beethoven...

Pianist Hannes Minnaar - Artistry to Savor

Rushton Paul

Hannes Minnaar (b.1984) is a pianist to keep one's ears on. He is is consistently described by critics as able to convey musical essence in all its purity, and I've become convinced this is true. I first came to know him through his contributions with the Van Baerle Trio and...

Downsizing Journey Update: Four Years with the Playback Designs MPD-8

Rushton Paul

We started our downsizing journey four years ago. I've written about that journey in four parts beginning HERE. I thought that after four years of experience with our all-digital, headphones-only listening system, an update might be worth sharing. As we headed into the realm of digital-files-only listening, my heels were dug...

More Superb RCA Living Stereo Albums from HDTT

Rushton Paul

Thus far in 2022, HDTT has given us three new and outstanding transfers of well known, and well loved, performances from the RCA Living Stereo catalog. To these, I've added several more of their excellent DXD/DSD256 Living Stereo reissues, plus a final reissue that RCA never released as a Living...

More Intriguing Music From Eric Vloeimans

Rushton Paul

Eric Vloeimans' music-making has captured me. I admit it happily. His innovative, cheerful explorations are refreshing, fun, interesting, and challenging, all at a go. No ruts here, no plodding along roads well-traveled by others. Listening to one of his albums is like finding fresh horizons. Oliver's Cinema, Eric Vloeimans, Tuur...

Willem de Fesch – Little Known Baroque Master to Rival the Greats

Rushton Paul

This recording by La Sfera Armoniosa of several works by the less-than-well-known composer, Willem de Fesch, is a treasure. The music is fully comparable to the best output from the Baroque. It is sophisticated, it shimmers. It is at least as colorful, playful, and inventive as that of his contemporaries....

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 18 - More Bert van der Wolf Recordings

The Magic of Bert van der Wolf

Interview with Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording

Four Superb Recordings from Bert van der Wolf, Northstar Recording

Magic from the Van Baerle Trio and Bert van der Wolf

Ruminations - What We Hear in HDTT Versus Modern Recordings

The Bruckner Symphonies with Jaap van Zweden

AudioQuest Mythical Creatures - ThunderBird, FireBird, and Dragon

A Schubert Symphony Cycle to Savor - Jan Willem de Vriend

Notes of an Amateur: Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir; Christian Wolff; Péteris Vasks

Notes of an Amateur: Cellist Hee-Young Lim Plays French Concertos; a Brilliant New Brahms's Violin Concerto Performance by Augustin Hadelich; Podger does Bach’s Cello Suites on Violin; Wilhelmina Smith plays Salonen’s and Saariaho’s Solo Cello Works; Christian Wolff's Orchestra Pieces.

Notes from Recent Finds, No. 17 - Releases from NativeDSD

Kuijken and La Petite Bande - Remastered in Original DXD Resolution!

Hannes Minnaar Performing Shostakovich, Beethoven and More

Pianist Hannes Minnaar - Artistry to Savor

Downsizing Journey Update: Four Years with the Playback Designs MPD-8

More Superb RCA Living Stereo Albums from HDTT

More Intriguing Music From Eric Vloeimans

Willem de Fesch – Little Known Baroque Master to Rival the Greats

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