Фонограмма, как говорится, традиционная? А что-то подобное с Краснознамённым ансамблем есть ещё?

No, it's not a traditional label. It was started by the Worker's Music Association which was close to the British Communist party at that time.

The association and the record label are still running, mainly recording British folk songs.

According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Records it is the oldest independent record label in the world.

I have a scan and audio of a very English performance of a Shostakovich song - I'll post it in the next few days.

Listing http://www.mustrad.org.uk/discos/discog.htm here.

Ув.Денис! Мне кажется, что это перепись из пластинки 7696. Кр.Ансамбля не было в Лондоне во время жизни Александра Васильевича.

Ансамбль мог впервые быть в Англии и США в 1939 году, но его возвернули в СССР буквально на полпути, в связи с началом Второй мировой войны.

The Ensemble perfomed in Paris in 1938 and there were some Polydor records of live performances. I agree it is much more likely that this record is a transcription of a Soviet recording.

I see it was 1937, the Paris recordings.

This version of the discography http://www.mustrad.org.uk/discos/dis_txt1.htm has added notes and gives the matrix number for this side as XYZ RA7.

XYZ was the prefix added by UK Decca to Soviet recordings. Unusually for Western issues, Decca issued some Soviet records from the original masters and in this case the XYZ is added to the left of the original matrix number. Many of these Topics have XYZ RR followed by a Soviet number. The RR very likely stands for Rerecording. Others in the discography look like original master pressings. I don't know what RA in this case stands for.