🎶 AUDIONAUTES RECORDINGS - 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
✨ A Selection From Original Masters
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How do you celebrate 15 years of uncompromising audiophile music?
AudioNautes Recordings has answered with an extraordinary compilation selected from original masters—a musical journey through jazz, classical, sacred, vocal, world and early music recordings.
The 15th Anniversary Edition contains two unusual introductory tracks—“Welcome” and “Channel Setting”—followed by 19 carefully chosen musical performances. Several selections also offer an advance taste of forthcoming AudioNautes releases.
This is far more than an ordinary “greatest hits” compilation. It is a demonstration disc designed to reveal the resolution, tonal colour, dynamics, soundstage and musical character of a high-quality audio system.
When music is carefully transferred from an analogue master tape, the listener can move closer to the original recording event—the musicians, the acoustic space and the atmosphere captured in the studio, concert hall or church.
From the legendary intimacy of Jazz at the Pawnshop and the sacred grandeur of Cantate Domino to the orchestral drama of Sketches of Spain, the rhythmic sophistication of Time Out and the unforgettable presence of Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, this anniversary collection moves effortlessly across styles and eras.
💿 EDITION DETAILS
• From original analogue master tapes
• Ultimate High-Quality CD
• High-reflectivity silver-alloy layer
• Numbered limited edition
• UHQCD manufactured in Japan
• Luxury Gold Series packaging
• Produced by AudioNautes Recordings in Italy
• Fully compatible with conventional CD players
• Catalogue number: AN-2501-UHQ
• Released: July 2025
Tracklist:
1. Welcome
2. Channel Setting
3. Gubben Och Källingen — Jazz at the Pawnshop Vol. 2
4. Laudate Dominum — Laudate II
5. Carmen Suite – Tanz — Carmen Suite
6. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Dorian), BWV 538 — Toccatas et Fugues
7. Furioso alla Spagnola — La Spagna
8. Fröja Dig, Du Kristi Brud — Cantate Domino
9. Vivo Sonhando — Getz/Gilberto
10. Saeta — Sketches of Spain
11. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen — Antiphone Blues
12. There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy — Now the Green Blade Riseth
13. Trotto — Ultreia!
14. Emoción — Mediterranean Feeling
15. Dancin’ in the Dark — Somethin’ Else
16. L’estate: Presto — Vivaldi 4 Stagioni
17. Vivaldi – Allegro — Solflöjt
18. Pase el Agoa — Early Music at Wik
19. Three to Get Ready — Time Out
20. Merci Bon Dieu — Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
21. Libertango — Live in Lugano 1983
🔬 WHAT IS UHQCD?
Ultimate High-Quality CD was developed to improve the physical precision of CD manufacturing. Instead of forming the data pits directly in conventional polycarbonate, UHQCD employs a highly fluid photopolymer cured with ultraviolet light, protected by a polycarbonate layer.
This manufacturing process is intended to create more accurately defined pits and lands and reduce unwanted internal laser-light reflection. The disc remains a standard Red Book CD and can be played on an ordinary CD player—no specialist UHQCD-compatible machine is required.
For these AudioNautes editions, the analogue source is mastered and converted to the CD-standard digital format. The objective is to preserve as much as possible of the master tape’s tonal richness, ambience and musical presence.
🏆 THE AUDIONAUTES GOLD SERIES
The luxurious gold hot-stamped presentation gives the collection its unofficial Gold Series identity. Inside is an audiophile programme assembled not around one genre, but around one principle: recordings capable of revealing what a truly high-resolution music system can deliver.
AudioNautes Recordings, founded by Fabio Camorani, has become known among HIGH END exhibition visitors and serious music enthusiasts for carefully selected, no-compromise physical releases. Its catalogue brings important performances back to listeners in premium editions created for focused, high-fidelity listening.
⭐ OUR VERDICT
A fascinating anniversary anthology, an impressive system-demonstration disc and a compact introduction to the AudioNautes catalogue.
The variety is its greatest strength: intimate jazz, powerful organ, choral scale, orchestral colour, acoustic atmosphere and legendary live performances—all presented on one numbered UHQ-CD.
Recommended for collectors, audiophiles and anyone who wants to explore recordings chosen for both their music and sound quality.
⚠️ VERY LOW STOCK — ONCE THIS NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION IS SOLD OUT, AVAILABILITY MAY BECOME EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
🎧 Which track would you play first to test your Hi-Fi system?
Would you choose:
🎷 Jazz at the Pawnshop
⛪ Cantate Domino
🎺 Sketches of Spain
🥁 Time Out
🎙️ Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
🎻 Vivaldi
Tell us your choice—and the audio system you would use—in the comments. 👇
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