Hilary Hahn Paris UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
With Paris, Hilary Hahn returns to Deutsche Grammophon and presents a tribute to the rich cultural heritage of a city that is of great importance in the violinist's career. ” Paris is about expression, "says Hahn," about emotions, about the feeling of being connected to a city and a cultural intersection in a way that inspires the performer and the listener.”
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 are cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. Another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied to protect the softer photopolymer against scratches. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an incomparably precise edge transition between pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, this results in a sound image strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes.
The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally coded MQA (Master Quality Authenticated). If you output the digital signal from the digital output of your CD player or the previously ribbed 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.
The current UHQCD series is based on the DSD data of the Single Layer SHM-SACDs released by Universal Music Japan in the years before. Thus, the UHQCDs are ideal for music lovers who want to get as close to the sound of the recording as possible, 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:

• Hilary Hahn, violin
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
• Mikko Franck, conductor

Selections:

Ernest Chausson
1. Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op.25
Sergei Prokofiev – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in D major, Op.19
2. I. Andantino. Andante assai
3. II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
4. III. Moderato. Allegro moderato
Einojuhani Rautavaara – Deux Sérénades
5. Sérénade pour mon amour. Moderato
6. Sérénade pour la vie. Andante assai. Comodo. Agitato