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A remarkable job has been done with the 55 year old master tape here. It was very well recorded to begin with, but Rob LoVerde and Shawn R. Britton have combined brilliantly ...

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https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/holst-the-planets-deborah-cheetham-fraillon-earth/hnum/12234162 Follow this link and you will know, this is a mchannel SACD

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | EugenF - July 13, 2025

Indeed hiredfox, DXD or DSD will be the ideal for an audiophile, but 192/24 is better than nothing. Maybe they keep the DXD/DSD transfers in their vaults for another 60-70 ...

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | hiredfox - July 12, 2025

I imagine it is a standard 96/24 recording, nothing special.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 - Storgårds | hiredfox - July 12, 2025

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But I like to sing... - Sampson, Middleton

BIS  BIS-2673

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Vocal

Works by Wolf, Brahms, Schubert, Parry, Bernstein, Frances-Hoad, Mendelssohn, Marx, Franck, Strohl, Paladilhe, Gounod, Poulenc, Saariaho, Pritchard, Barber, Gurney, Strauss, Wallen

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Jack Liebeck (violin)

All

Recording

PCM recording

Works (19)

• Samuel Barber: A Slumber Song of the Madonna (1925)
• Leonard Bernstein: I Hate Music (5) (1942) No. 3
• Johannes Brahms: Lieder (5), Op. 49 No. 2
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Something More Than Mortal
• César Franck: Nocturne, CFF 156
• Charles-Francois Gounod: Ave maria, CG 89d
• Ivor Gurney: Sleep
• Joseph Marx: Nocturne
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Gesänge (6), Op. 34 No. 2 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
• Emile Paladilhe: Psyché
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry: English Lyrics (74) X No. 1
• Francis Poulenc: Poèmes de Louis Aragon (2), FP 122
• Deborah Pritchard: Everyone Sang
• Kaija Saariaho: Parfum de l'instant
• Franz Schubert: An die Musik, D 547
• Richard Strauss: Lieder (4), TrV 170 No. 4 Morgen
• Rita Strohl: Bilitis (12) Nos 9, 11, 12
• Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth
• Hugo Wolf: Mörike-Lieder (53) (1888) No. 11