AudioQuest DragonFly : USB Digital to Analog Converter, up to 96kHz/24-bit.Violinist Daniel Hope shares thoughts on Vivaldi’s masterpiece and its modern new take before his upcoming performance with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra on November 16.Meridian Explorer : USB Digital to Analog Converter, up to 192kHz/24-bit.JRiver : plays both AIFF and FLAC formats, $50 but has a free trial period.Audirvana : plays both AIFF and FLAC formats, $50 but has a free trial period.

iTunes : plays AIFF, it's free and you probably have it already!.You may need additional software / hardware to take full advantage of the higher 24-bit high-res audio formats, but any music lover that has heard 16-bit vs 24-bit will tell you it's worth it! Software for Mac OS X ProStudioMasters offers the original studio masters - exactly as the artist, producers and sound engineers mastered them - for download, directly to you. When you listen to music on a CD or tracks purchased via consumer services such as iTunes, you are hearing a low-resolution version of what was actually recorded and mastered in the studio. High-resolution audio offers the highest-fidelity available, far surpassing the sound quality of traditional CDs. I literally wrote myself into Vivaldi’s score.' The challenge was to create a new score, an experimental hybrid that is current but simultaneously preserves the original spirit of this great work. I hear it in the supermarket regularly, am confronted with it in adverts or hear it as Muzak when on hold. ' The Four Seasons is an omnipresent piece of music like no other part of our musical landscape. Mixing the technological and the traditional, Richter sheds new light on this timeless masterpiece with his unique recomposition for violin, chamber orchestra and Moog synthesizer. Gramophone Vivaldi Recomposed is Max Richter’s highly acclaimed 2014 reworking of The Four Seasons, the best-selling classical work of all time. an amalgamation of Richter’s new composition and Vivaldi’s familiar work in a fresh piece of music.' 'Inventive orchestra and solo sonorities. Richter has given The Four Seasons an avant-garde update.'

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