Channel Classics – awarded ‘label of the year 2015’ by Gramophone on September 17th – is celebrating 25 years of working with the best musicians! I selected 25 recordings we released over the past 25 years to offer you for a very special price. To top it off we put together a sampler with 25 tracks I picked because of a special memory I have of the recording session, an artist I am really fond of or a composer I discovered.

Since Channel Classics only recorded in DSD since the year 2000, some tracks have been replaced by a different piece, by the same artist, recorded in a later year. Two artists that appeared on the original track list on the regular CD were never recorded in DSD at all, and thus I choose two other artists to be included on this DSD sampler.

You can read anecdotes about the 25 takes in the booklet.

Enjoy!

Jared Sacks, founder and engineer of Channel Classics & co-founder of NativeDSD.com