Harold Faberman The All Star Percussion Ensemble UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition Japanese Import UHQCD!
From the Original Master Source!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Harold Farberman conducts the All Star Percussion Ensemble for this recording of music by Bizet, Beethoven, Pachelbel and Berlioz.
Actually, Harold Farberman deserves the status of a star – if one were to idolize percussionists just as much as pianists, guitarists, saxophonists or other experts of their instrument. Farberman studied percussion at the Juilliard School of Music and became the youngest member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of 20. During this time, he began studying composition, wrote his first own pieces and later, as a conductor, led orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His oeuvre includes three operas for percussion instruments, various works for orchestra and chamber ensembles, film music and compositions for dance companies. Today he holds a professorship at Bard College in New York.
The present recording contains four classical works that can be assigned to the early Romantic, Romantic, and Baroque periods, and which, viewed from the perspective of the original compositions, could not be more different. 10 of the best percussionists from the most renowned American orchestras come together under the baton of Farberman and play between 60 and 80 different percussion instruments – per work! The recording, produced by the legendary Andrew Kazdin, creates a fascinating soundscape that is not often heard in concert halls or on albums.
The numbered and limited UHQCD from AudioNautes Recordings is characterized by a homogeneous sound image that does not limit the spectacular dynamic range of the recording!
All About Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD):
Many years have passed since the birth of the Audio Compact Disc (CD) back in 1982. By use of High-Quality materials and a totally different manufacturing method, the definitive version of audiophile audio CD was born. Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD):
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself. The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned. Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs.
The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials. For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity.
Differences in manufacturing methods:
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material. Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die. This is called the "stamper." Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper.
This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper. As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper.
The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper. In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths. The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved. Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy. The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• Playable on Conventional CD Players
• From the Original Master Source
• Made in Japan

Selections:

1. Bizet - Carmen Fantasy
2. Beethoven - Scherzo from Symphony No.9
3. Pachelbel - Canon in D
4. Berlioz - March to the Scaffold from the Symphonie Fantastique