Hi-Res Highlights,
Hi-Res Highlights - December 2016
It's been two years since we launched our Hi-Res download offering - and our catalogue now includes over 7,500 albums, both old and new. You can browse through our full Hi-Res selection here.
However, seven thousand is quite a lot - so in July we started putting together a monthly roundup offering some of our thoughts on the best of the best! Here's this month's selection…
Hi-Res New Releases
The pick of this month's newly-released Hi-Res recordings.
As winter draws on, Jordi Savall and his musicians take us to sunny Catalonia to explore the 'Red Book of Montserrat' - a collection of songs written in the 14th century for the entertainment of pilgrims to Barcelona.
Available Formats: SACD + DVD Video, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Having teased her fans with arias and excerpts on her previous release, 'Verismo', Russian soprano Anna Netrebko now dominates in this passionate recording of Puccini's great tragedy, with Yusif Eyvazov as Des Grieux and Marco Armiliato conducting.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Seong-Jin Cho, winner of the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition, presents his first studio recording - an all-Chopin programme exhibiting the same sensitivity of interpretation that took him to victory.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
The strings of the LSO under Roman Simovic perform three of the finest and most enduringly popular string-ensemble works in the repertoire - Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Elgar's Introduction and Allegro and Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Ralph Kirschbaum and Shai Wosner perform Beethoven's complete cello sonatas and charming variations on themes by Handel and Mozart.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Christian Lindberg and his Arctic Philharmonic (based in Tromsø, in the far north of Norway) perform Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies.
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Recent Hi-Res Re-issues
The greatest performances of yesteryear, newly remastered and re-released in Hi-Res.
Three Mozart piano concertos, including the famous 'Elvira Madigan' K467, performed by Geza Anda and the Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform heroic works by Wagner and Strauss - the Siegfried Idyll and Ein Heldenleben.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
David Smith - Head of Digital
