Liza Minnelli Highlights From The Carnegie Hall Concert Ultra HD
Ultra High Definition 32-Bit Mastering!
This Ultra HD 32-Bit Mastering CD will play on ALL CD players!
This recording originally released by Telarc in 1987 contains Highlights From the Carnegie Hall Concerts and features New York, New York and four medleys of songs by Fred Ebb and John Kander! The core of Minnelli's career was on stage performing music including signature tunes written for her by Ebb and Kander.
Liza Minelli was one of the few artists to have won all four major awards in the US entertainment industry over the course of her career: Oscar, Grammy Award, Emmy and Tony Award. In the role of vaudeville artist Sally Bowles in the film 'Cabaret', the daughter of Judy Garland became world famous and with the title theme of the Scorsese film 'New York, New York' - later a worldwide success in the interpretation by Frank Sinatra - she sang her unofficial anthem to the city.
But the greater the fame, the higher the fall. In the 80s, the former Broadway queen made headlines primarily with affairs, her drug addiction and a series of visits to prestigious rehab clinics. It was not until 1987 that she made her comeback with a three-week concert series at New York's Carnegie Hall. There were 17 sold-out concerts in a row and to this day this record has not been broken. The repertoire included well-known jazz standards and musical songs accompanied by a 45-piece orchestra. The highlights can be heard in the present Telarc recording.
The recording manages to transport the atmosphere of Carnegie Hall into the present day. The microphone is designed to represent an overall sound image including room reverb and not individual instruments. If you're wondering about the title combinations, you'll notice that Liza Minnelli lets the songs slide musically into each other and then even intersperses several medleys with hits from Broadway plays.
Ultra High Definition 32-Bit Mastering!
Ultra High Definition 32-Bit Mastering is a proprietary ultra-high-quality mastering system. This leading-edge system has achieved unprecedented sonority and musicality, reproducing as closely as possible the sound of the original master tape! This format employs what is currently the highest attainable resolution bit depth (word length) in the professional audio field, i.e. 32-bit. 32-bit resolution makes possible maximized, undistorted dynamics, and the lowest noise floor, allowing even the quietest musical information to be heard more clearly. This breakthrough results from the development, through years of experience and application of advanced digital technology, of a sophisticated A/D and D/A processing system.
Ultra HD 32-Bit Mastering does not specify a sampling rate; this allows flexibility in meticulously choosing the appropriate bandwidth for a particular recording. The higher the sampling rate -- for example, 192 kHz -- the greater the bandwidth. However, merely employing the greatest bandwidth may not guarantee the ultimate sound. With some recordings, a lower sampling rate -- 96 or 176 kHz -- may offer better musicality and more homogeneous harmonics. This determination requires careful and discerning auditioning and professional judgment. In the end, the human being's hearing and emotions should be the final arbiter, rather than the print-out of testing equipment or technical measurements.
Recognizing these variables, FIM nevertheless tries to use 32-bit depth and 192 kHz bandwidth whenever the original analog master is at hand. Alternatively, if the original recording is on 24/96, the 32/96 may eventually be used to maintain the integrity of the sonority particular to that recording. With this flexibility, First Impression Music believes that preeminent sound is only achievable when the chemistry of the recording, mastering, glass-stamper making, replication, and quality control is right. As always, listening is believing.
This recording has been mastered by the new Ultra High Definition 32-Bit Mastering process, which creates an unbelievable sound surpassing other formats!
The benefits of Ultra HD 32-Bit Mastering:
Ambience of Analogue Sound
Higher Resolution
Undistorted Dynamics
The Lowest Noise Floor, allowing even the quietest musical information to be heard more clearly!
Richer Sound Field
Master-Tape Quality Sound!!!
Delivers what musicians originally intended!
Features:
- Produced using PureFlection (Pure Reflection) Process
- Ultra HD Mastering
- Beautifully packaged
- Playable on ALL CD Players!
- Original Audiophile Label, Telarc Release!
Selections:
1. I Can See Clearly Now / I Can See It
2. Here I'll Stay / Our Love Is Here To Stay
3. Old Friends
4. You Can Have Him / Time Heals Everything
5. How Deep Is the Ocean
6. Some People
7. Ring Them Bells
8. Alexander's Ragtime Band
9. Somewhere Out There
10. Ebb & Kander Medley I
11. Ebb & Kander Medley II
12. Maybe This Time
13. Ebb & Kander Medley III
14. Ebb & Kander Medley IV
15. New York, New York