Via AudiQuest Vodka Toslink - I‘m glad the TV is next to the Rossini.
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Porcupine Tree: In Absentia
Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
Kscope - 24th September 2002
24/96
DR: 11
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New release
Rembrandt Trio: The Blue Hour Sessions
Jazz
Just Listen Records - 13th May 2025
DSD 256 (original recording format)
DR: 9
‘Chilled out’ Jazz.
Excellent recording by Jared Sacks and mastering by Tom Caulfield (both of Channel Classics renown).
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Brothers In Arms (40th Anniversary)
Dire Straits
24-Bit/44.1 kHz, Qobuz download
Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms gets a deluxe 40th anniversary reissue that includes a full live set from Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, 16 August 1985.
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Handel: Water Music
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
Harmonia Mundi - 5th February 2016
24/96
DR: 10
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David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (50th Anniversary Edition)
Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Country, Pop/Rock
Rhino - 22nd February 1971 (2021 Remaster)
24/96
DR: 10
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wow, so may great records out these days… a few of my recent favourites
Brahms: Lieder Album
by Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
Chopin Intime
by Justin Taylor
Forgotten Symphonies by Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations
Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Yuja Wang, Baiba Skride, Yo-Yo Ma, Boston Symphony
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2; Britten: Cello Sonata by Sheku Kanneh-Mason,
Sinfonia of London, John
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For me, Vivaldi has brought a piano sound that seems consistently natural - and very pleasing - even though recordings of the instrument over the last 75 years or so can be very different in nature. This Monk record is from 1958, I think. (And the XRCD is a good one.)
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An Esther Phillips fan! Me too. I think I’ll go and see what music I have of hers tonight. Did this album ever come out on CD? Someone once gave me a rather beaten up copy of the LP, but I sold my vinyl about 15 years ago.
Indeed it did. In one of Atlantic’s later fishing expeditions through their back catalogue.
https://www.discogs.com/release/13271330-Esther-Phillips-Burnin-Live-At-Freddie-Jetts-Pied-Piper-LA
(Discogs is your friend 
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