The 1976 reissue, made by Russian Melodia, is surprisingly decent. The original tracks are not recorded evenly, the sound of fourth and sixth partitas in my opinion do not reach the good rate but in the first numbers there was enough beautiful moments. Gould plays divinely, the unattainable ideal of a classical pianist. The first and third partitas are the best in quality.
LP Remastering
Billie Holiday – Music For Torching, 1955 LP Rip
Clef, as always, has carelessly recorded trebles, someone there liked to twist the sibilants to the maximum. The record as a whole sounds sharp and harsh on the forte. You can abstract from the distortion when listening to good equipment, remastering Back To Music allows you to do this without any problems. Billy sings most emphatically in “It Had To Be You” and “I Don’t Want To Cry Anymore”.
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Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues, 1956 LP Rip
Billy’s recordings on Clef and Verve were not distinguished by neat sound engineering work, sometimes they came out blurred, sometimes they were recorded with overloads and the treble was twisted to a whistle. Billie is beautiful in spite of the second hand crackling vinyl. I Thought About You is amazing.
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Frida Boccara, 1967 LP Rip
There are two records D-18475-7′ and D-20579-10′ combined together. Both recorded in 1966 in a good studio, Frida sings accompanied by the instrumental ensemble of V. Rubashevskiy. The variation in the quality of the recordings is striking, as if someone was experimenting with the equipment. Judging by the sound of the vocals on the D-20579, Frida sang in front of some cheap Soviet dynamic microphone, the voice is quite clamped. On the ff where Frida sings at some distance, the sound is clamped even more. The apotheosis of such a record is “Nejnost” where Frida sings with feeling and the orchestra sounds great! “A Man and a Woman” was good played, but the quality, as if on purpose, is the worst of all.
Colette Renard – Raymond Legrand, 1967 LP Rip
Recordings by Colette Renard and the Raymond Legrand pop Orchestra from a tour in the USSR. It seems like these tours were in 1961, for these old years, the record sounds somewhat cold. Although when compared to Frida Baccara (1966), everything falls into place, Renard sounds clearer.
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Gerard Le Breton, 1950s LP Rip
The magical night road of Le Breton, hypnotizes as soon as the piano begins to play.
Cartoon Songs, 1970s LP Rip
Leonov is a great talent, brilliantly sang Winnie-the-Pooh. The children’s choir is made up of two tracks — the first and second verses are recorded worse than the third, in the third verse the children are very expressive. Chunga-Changa is good without question, Aida is beautiful.
From Melody to Melody, 1960s LP Rip
Funny tracks from the series "From melody to melody." Alive, though crooked.
17 Moments of Spring – LP mono Rip
Flexible record. It's recorded a bit muffled, but musically well. The execution is charismatic, there are no words.
4′ vinyl record – shake, LP Rip
Single-sided plate with a diameter of only 10 cm with the inscription “Long-playing 33 rpm Shake”, it looks like the 1960s. It would seem that what to expect from her, but she has a dense bass, a perky electric organ — a great example of vintage Lo-Fi! I wonder who made them and how..