Harry Belafonte Belafonte At Carnegie Hall (2 UHQCD)

Numbered, Limited Edition Japanese Import UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The granddaddy of all live albums, this disc captures the excitement of a Harry Belafonte concert at the height of his popularity. Sampled from two consecutive performances of identical material, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall was an anomaly at a time when only comedy albums were recorded outside of the studio environment. It wasn't the first live album ever made, but it was certainly the first to be a major financial and artistic success.
The recording of Harry Belafonte's performance at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1959 is undoubtedly a classic that belongs in any well-stocked audiophile collection. Together with his band and a 47-piece orchestra, Belafonte succeeded in captivating the audience – and more than 60 years later, fans and audiophiles alike still succeed in doing so in their own living rooms. In addition to a varied and humorous show, the great recording quality is highly praised to this day; the crystal-clear voice reproduction and astonishing spatiality are a real treat. In this re-issue by Audionautes, this brilliance is presented in UHQ CD format to the point.
The first edition in the high-quality jewellery box is limited to 1111 numbered copies.
From the opening trumpet fanfare and brief orchestral overture to the epic 12-minute version of "Matilda" (which set a standard for audience participation), the album never lets up. It is exciting, poignant, thrilling, intimate, and at times, spontaneously hilarious.
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!
Packaged in an XRCD-like luxury digipak complete with full color CD booklet.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Double UHQCD
• Made in Japan
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• Superior Crystal Sound
• XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
• Playable on conventional CD players

Musicians:

• Harry Belafonte, vocals
• Millard Thomas, guitar
• Raphael Boguslav, guitar
• Danny Barrajanos, bongos, congos
• Norm Keenan, bass
• Robert Coman, conductor

Selections:

CD 1
1. Introduction/Darlin' Cora
2. Sylvie
3. Cotton Fields
4. John Henry
5. Take My Mother Home
6. The Marching Saints
7. The Banana Boat Song (Day O)
8. Jamaica Farewell
9. Man Piaba
10. All My Trials
CD 2
1. Mama Look A Boo Boo
2. Come Back Liza
3. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
4. Hava Nagila
5. Danny Boy
6. Merci Bon Dieu
7. Cucurrucucucu Paloma
8. Shenandoah
9. Matilda