Bruce Liu Waves: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The repertoire on Bruce Liu's "Deutsche Grammophon" debut includes French piano music from different centuries by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Born in 1997, the Canadian pianist with Chinese roots is a prizewinner and finalist of various prestigious competitions, such as the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, which he won in 2021.
UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development of the Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and the Audio Quality CD Company from Hong Kong. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratches, another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an unrivalled precise edge transition between the pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, the sound is strongly reminiscent of analogue master tapes.
The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally encoded MQA (Master Quality Authenticated). If you output the digital signal from the digital output of your CD player or the previously ripped data stream of your music server to a corresponding MQA-DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal with up to 352 kHz sampling frequency from the CD data.
While Universal Music Japan's first UHQCD series used the DSD data from previous SHM-SACD releases, as their popularity grew, albums that had not previously been released as SHM-SACDs were released. Typically, the master tapes of the Universal Archive are converted to DSD and then post-processed with the appropriate MQA encoder. Thus, the UHQCDs are ideal for music lovers who want to get as close as possible to the sound of the recording, but do not have a SACD player.

Features:

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

Musicians:

• Bruce Liu, piano

Selections:

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
1. Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
2. Barcarolle, Op.65, No.6
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
3. Les sauvages, RCT 6/7
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Miroirs, M.43
4. Noctuelles. Très léger
5. Oiseaux tristes. Très lent
6. Une barque sur l'océan. D'un rythme souple
7. Alborada del gracioso. Assez vif
8. La vallée des cloches. Très lent
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
9. Le festin d'ésope, Op.39, No.12
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
10. Les tendres plaintes (rondeau), RCT 3/1
11. Les cyclopes (Rondeau), RCT 3/8
12. Menuet I & II, RCT 6/3 & RCT 6/4
13. La Poule, RCT 6/5