Is Pentatone Bailing on SACD?


As most Audiophiles know, SACD was released with great acclaim a few decades ago, and failed to find traction in the market place, even before the advent of streaming.  The one exception has been Classical Music, where several thousand titles remain available.
  Classical listeners are very familiar with the Pentatone label, founded roughly 15 years ago by former Phillips employees.  They resurrected old Quad recordings from Phillips, DG, and other labels.  They simultaneously promoted new Artists, such as Julia Fischer, Arabella Steinbacher, Daniel Muller-Schott, and many others.  They began releasing High Resolution downloads and streaming  in addition to SACDs, a sensible move in view of industry trends.
  I just bought a superb Pentatone disc, Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon SO playing works by Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, and Morton Gould.  I can’t recommend the disc enough for its musical content, and it sounds superb, especially in my 2 channel system .  It was when I first popped in one of my HT systems that I realized that it wasn’t an SACD.  I scoured the jewel case for the SACD logo, and my eyesight is getting progtrssively worse, but didn’t detect it anywhere.  I have been buying Pentatone discs for years and must have over  100 collected; to my knowledge this is the first non SACD from them.
  I googled this and found nothing.  And I repeat, this is a magnificent sounding disc, and I guess that is what is most important.  However, if a diehard supporter like Pentatone is abandoning SACD, then I fear that it truly will disappear 
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It’s on Qobuz at 96. If they did not upsample it, the 1 bit files are probably around somewhere.
Sounds nice thanks for the rec.
Kalmar batonned A Jazz Symphony at the Pritzker a few years (2?) ago.
My favorite sounding outdoor venue.
They also broadcast on WFMT.
https://www.wfmt.com/programs/grant-park-music-festival/