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Musical heritage: the adventurers of the lost bands

2021-03-26T20:07:29.129Z


RÉCIT - French label, The Lost Recordings tracks the forgotten recordings of legendary artists in European radio stations and concert halls, to offer them in limited edition. Clever sleuths help them in each country.


It is an ordinary suburban pavilion, lost in the midst of bicycle repairers and garages in the Adamville district, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

Hidden behind its peaceful and uncluttered facade, The Lost Recordings studio gives no hint of the extraordinary artistic adventure that takes place there.

On the top floor of his house, pianist Frédéric d'Oria-Nicolas welcomes us to this vast space bathed in light, which serves as a listening temple for the brand new label.

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Standing between its grand piano and an old model of tape recorder with analogue tapes, the elegant, state-of-the-art Saturn turntable, by Riffaud (the must-have of the vinyl turntable), extends its 12-inch arm to the "test-pressing" of a recital by pianist Emil Gilels, found in the archives of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

A suspended moment of grace, sublimated from the first notes of Brahms' second ballad, by the exceptional transparency of the sound image.

"It is probably the most beautiful piano concert that I

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Source: lefigaro

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