Alice Sara Ott Echoes of Life Deluxe Edition (2 UHQCD)

In addition to Frédéric Chopin's "24 Préludes", "Echoes of Life" contains seven compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries, including a piece written especially for this album by Francesco Tristano and an original composition by Alice Sara Ott based on Mozart's "Lacrimosa". "Echoes Of Life" is Ott's tenth release with Deutsche Grammophon and a reflection on her personal development as a person and artist.
This "Deluxe Edition" contains eleven additional tracks, and in the accompanying booklet Ott documents the autobiographical approaches of the work.
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.

Selections:

CD 1
1. In The Beginning Was
2. Preludes, op.28 - Agitato
3. Preludes, op.28 - Lento
4. Preludes, op.28 - Vivace
5. Preludes, op.28 - Largo
6. Musica Ricercata I - Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
7. Preludes, op.28 – Allegro molto
8. Preludes, op.28 – Lento assai
9. Preludes, op.28 - Andantino
10. Preludes, op.28 – Molto agitato
11. Preludes, op.28 - Largo
12. Valzel
13. Preludes, op.28 – Agitato – Allegro molto
14. Preludes, op.28 - Vivace
15. Preludes, op.28 - Presto
16. Preludes, op.28 - Lento
17. Preludes, op.28 - Allegro
18. Preludes, op.28 - Sostenuto
19. Prelude in C Sharp Major
20. Preludes, op.28 – Presto con fuoco
21. Preludes, op.28 - Allegretto
22. Preludes, op.28 – Allegro molto
23. Litany - Adagio
24. Preludes, op.28 - Vivace
25. Preludes, op.28 - Largo
26. For Alina
27. Preludes, op.28 – Cantabile
28. Preludes, op.28 - Molto agitato
29. Preludes, op.28 - Moderato
30. Preludes, op.28 – Allegro appassionato
31. Lullaby To Eternity
CD 2
1. Prelude in C Major BWV 846 From The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
2. Prelude in C Minor
3. Largo in C Minor
4. Prelude in A Flat Major KK IVB/7
5. Prelude in C Sharp Minor op.45
6. Contretemps
7. Prelude No.6 From Naïve Music
8. Prelude No.3 From Distant Music
9. Prelude in C Minor
10. Largo in C Minor
11. Prelude in C Major BWV 846 From The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1