These recordings have been transferred from 33/3 rpm acetates. When I reviewed the Connoisseur CD last September it provided a reasonably faithful sound quality in quieter passages but climaxes overloaded badly with a good deal of distortion. There was evidence too in general background noise and an additional component of distortion at certain points that the acetates had received a good deal of wear. Now these recordings have been put to the new and much publicized NoNoise remastering technique, but any improvement is only slight, and has been achieved at the cost of compressing the sound just a little, so that some of its life and presence has gone. At the end of Schelomo there is a persistent 33/3 scratch noise, not in the context too obtrusive, but I am surprised that it could not have been eliminated.
Feuermann's playing is brilliant and tonally magnificent in all four works, but I found his Dvorak a little too intense and hard-driven. Schelomo receives a superb performance. Barzin's training orchestra of young players gives Feuermann good support throughout, and at medium price these performances are well worth investigation. But listeners will have to tolerate passages of very poor sound.'