![]() But the text is a discursive patchwork of short episodes, and Gide also objected to the way in which Stravinsky set his jewelled words the two parted with the composer accusing the writer of “a complete absence of rapport, which obviously originated in your attitude.”īut the extraordinary thing about Perséphone is how the score as a whole utterly transcends the dramatic shortcomings of the text, as well as its own stylistic unevenness. Gide’s text puts a Christian spin on Homer’s original story instead of being abducted and raped by Pluto, Perséphone goes down to Hades of her own volition, out of pity for the lost souls of the underworld. Rubinstein both danced and spoke the title role at the Paris premiere, which was not well received. Perséphone was written for the dancer Ida Rubinstein, who had already commissioned Stravinsky’s Tchaikovsky-based ballet Le Baiser de la Fée six years earlier. It’s one of Stravinsky’s greatest achievements, and alongside his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, one of the high points of his neoclassical period, though perhaps because of the forces it requires and its curious hybrid nature – part ballet, part cantata – performances and recordings have always been rare. But in Perséphone, the “melodrama” for tenor, female narrator, chorus, children’s chorus and large orchestra that he completed in 1934 to a text by André Gide, he composed one of the most radiant and lyrically beautiful scores to be found anywhere in 20th-century music. Radiant beauty is not a quality that is automatically associated with Stravinsky’s music. Recorded Live During Helsinki Festival 2017 at Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Helsinki by Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle on August 11, 2017 What this allows is for the customer's DAC to use gentler, more Gaussian shaped reconstruction filters, with far improved phase response. For DSD512, the modulation noise is about -110dB at 160KHz, and -50dB at 800KHz. For DSD64, the uncorrelated modulation noise is about -110dB at 20KHz, rising to about -50dB at 100KHz. While the spectorial shape is the same regardless of the DSD bitrate, it's effective start and end points move an octave higher for every doubling of the DSD bitrate. The modulation noise (again, uncorrelated) is the carrier part of the DSD bitstream modulation, and an inherent part of the DSD bit stream. When a DSD original file is converted to DXD (PCM), the inherent DSD modulation noise is removed through the decimation filtering, and re-inserted when modulated back to DSD. What's different is the uncorrelated modulation noise content placement in the frequency spectrum. For those recordings, the DSD edited master (the actual recording master with edits) is used with HQPlayer Pro to re-modulate the missing DSD bitrates.Why do any of this? It's to provide a DSD bitrate deliverable choice, allowing a customer to purchase the highest DSD bitrate their DAC will support.It's correct that there's no additional music content information contained in the higher DSD bit rate from the original DSD bitrate. That's doable by restricting post processing to just editing, where only the edit transition interval (typically 100ms or less) is PCM converted, leaving the DSD music content unaltered when rendered. Additionally, on selected recordings, a 32bit PCM WAV file is extracted (the DXD PCM FLAC is 24 bits by format definition), and uses it to modulate a DSD512 using HQPlayer Pro.The exception to the above are the few label recordings (Yarlung, Eudora, Just Listen etc.) that record in DSD, and do no PCM post processing mixing, level balancing, EQ etc. NativeDSD acquires the label's original DXD edited master, and using Merging Technologies Album Publishing, creates a first generation DSD64, DSD128, and DSD256, as well as a DXD FLAC deliverable. The overwhelming majority of these recordings were edited and post processed in DXD, then converted (modulated) into DSD deliverable bit rates. NativeDSD sells only recordings that were originally recorded in DSD or DXD (352.8KHz PCM). In order to understand the processes, a bit of background is appropriate. NativeDSD selectively creates higher DSD bitrates of label's releases using two methods (Merging Technologies Album Publishing and Singnalyst HQPlayer Pro), depending on the original edited master source. DSD 512 fs, DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, DXD 24 BitĢch Stereo, 5 Channel Surround Sound, 2ch Stereo & 5ch SurroundĪndrew Staples, Finnish National Opera, Pauline Cheviller
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