LP Remastering

Goedicke – Symphony No.3, Boris Haikin – 1956 LP Rip

Classical, Goedicke Alexander, Haikin Boris, LP Remastering, Mosoblsovnarhoz RSFSR
Anton Stepichev


Gedike’s Third Symphony, conducted by Boris Haikin, All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mosoblsovnarchoz RSFSR GOST-1956, a sample of large-scale full sound of the 1950s. Piano is legible, tutti is expressive — strings and brass do not go into a scream, trombones remain “in the body”. The magic cantilena characteristic of the early 1950s TU-1kl records is already absent.

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Classical Guitar, Soviet 1960s LP Rip

Accord, Classical, Guitar, Leningrad Sovnarkhoz, LP Remastering, Melodia
Anton Stepichev

Four examples of the beautiful classical guitar.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1972 Melody LP mono Rip

Classical, Guitar, Ivanov-Kramskoy, LP Remastering, Melodia
Anton Stepichev


Listen to the magic of Ivanov-Kramsky's guitar – the best performance of the Preludes of Villa-Lobos. The sound of the record is too compressed though.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1956 LP Rip

Classical, Guitar, Ivanov-Kramskoy, Leningrad Sovnarkhoz, LP Remastering
Anton Stepichev


Impeccable intonation and taste – so you can characterize the guitar playing of A. Ivanov-Kramskoy, these tracks in particular.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1965 Melody LP Rip

Classical, Guitar, Ivanov-Kramskoy, LP Remastering, Melodia
Anton Stepichev


It sounds like a re-release of 1940s records. Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy is one of the few classical guitarists with a filigree sense of rhythm, hypnotic sound and calligraphic sound extraction.

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Louis Armstrong with Earl Hines, 1953 LP RIP

Armstrong Louis, Jazz, LP Remastering, Odeon
Anton Stepichev


Acoustic recordings of 1928, French remastered Odeon. Not that I liked Armstrong, but rather the magic sound of the music box in Basin Street Blues hooked.

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Russian balalaika, 1968 Melody LP Rip

Balalaika, LP Remastering, Melodia
Anton Stepichev

Balalaika virtuosos, excellent instruments and professional sound engineering work.

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Beethoven – Violin Concerto, D. Oystrakh 1952 LP Rip

Aprelevsky Zavod, Beethoven Ludwig, Classical, Gauck Aleksandr, LP Remastering, Oystrakh David, TU-1kl-33, Violin
Anton Stepichev


TU-1kl 33 with a small red apple – the first Soviet LP records with surprisingly contradictory sound: the orchestra is clamped, sharp, while the solo instruments are clear, clean and with incredibly subtle intonations. Oystrach and his Stradivarius are in great shape on this record, they are a single whole, creating a musical narrative, interesting from beginning to the end. Oystrakh starts playing from the third minute and no longer lets anybody go off.

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Haydn – Sonata No. 3 In E Flat Major – Glenn Gould, 1958 LP rip

Classical, Columbia, Gould Glenn, Haydn Joseph, LP Remastering, Piano
Anton Stepichev
NEW – Energophone take – 28-02-2020


Clear, faceted Haydn, high-quality record. Gould is out of competition.

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IS Bach, Concerto No. 1 In D Minor – Glenn Gould, 1957 LP rip

Bach Johann, Bernstein Leonard, Classical, Columbia, Gould Glenn, LP Remastering, Piano
Anton Stepichev


The recording is complex in sound, the piano does not fit well with the harsh-sounding Bernstein orchestra. The remastering conveyed the drama laid down by Gould as truthfully as possible. It is immortal concert, for all time.

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