Sergei Babayan & Daniil Trifonov Rachmaninoff for Two (2 UHQCD)

On the occasion of the celebrations of Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday in 2023, pianist Daniil Trifonov and his mentor Sergei Babayan recorded this wonderful recording at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
"Rachmaninoff for Two" contains interpretations of the two suites for two pianos, the duet version of the Symphonic Dances and Trifonov's own transcription of the Adagio from Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.
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. UHQCDs, unlike conventional CDs, are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratching, 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 pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, the result is a sound that is strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes.
The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) encoded. 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 a sampling frequency of up to 352 kHz from the CD data.
While Universal Music Japan's first UHQCD series relied on DSD data from previous SHM-SACD releases, albums that had not previously been released as SHM-SACD are now being released with increasing popularity. Typically, the master tapes of the Universal Archive are re-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:

Disc 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Symphony No.2 in E Minor, Op.27, 3rd Adagio
Suite No.2 For 2 Pianos, Op.17
2. I. Introduction
3. II. Waltz
4. III. Romance
5. IV. Tarantella
Disc 2
Suite No.1 For 2 Pianos, "Fantaisie (Tableaux)"
1. I. Barcarolle (Allegretto)
2. II. Oh Night, oh Love (Adagio sostenuto)
3. III. Tears (Largo di molto)
4. IV. Easter (Allegro maestoso)
Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (Version For 2 Pianos)
5. I. Non allegro/Lento/Tempo I
6. II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
7. II. Lento assai - Allegro vivace