Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 11 (1928-08)

c MUSIC LOVERS MONTHLY REVIE AXEL B. JOHJ^SOT^ Managing Editor Published by THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Offices and Studio: 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. Telephone Jamaica 5054 : Cable Address: “Phono” THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears on the twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- right and may be reproduced only by permission. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor at the Studio, 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. All unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Review A LTHOUGH in this country the release of major recordings has dwindled consider- JL \. ably through the summer season, in Eng- land the monthly supplements continue as well filled as ever. The influence here is obvious, for while early this spring a number of enthusiasts were heard to protest that too many fine things were being released and that their pocket-books were unable to keep pace with their desires, the wind has now shifted, and once again we are deluged with complaints that England is getting all the musical plums. Consequently our im- porters do a flourishing business, for which they are no doubt grateful to the domestic manufac- turers who are rather slow in re-pressing under their own labels the releases of their affiliated foreign companies. It so happens, however, that this month, while there are many noteworthy major works in the British supplements, many of them are already well-known here, having been released in some instances for many months. For Columbia, the Myra Hess Schubert Sonata and Tchaikowsky’s Trio “To the Memony of a Great Artist,” should be cited; and for H. M. V., the Fingal’s Cave Overture by Ganz and the St. Louis Symphony, Coates’ impressive performance of Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, Mozart’s G minor Symphony by Malcolm Sargent, the Chicago Symphony’s disk of the Handel Largo and G minor Slavonic Dance of Dvorak can all be named. Leading the H. M. V. list is a complete Rigo- letto album (fifteen records) by the soloists, chorus, and orchestra of La Scala Opera House, Milan. Following come a two-record issue of de Falla’s Suite from the Three Cornered Hat, play- ed by Sargent and the New Light Symphony Or- chestra; Brahms E minor Sonata for ’cello and piano played by Beatrice Harrison and Gerald Moore; and Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata in B flat played by Marcel Dupre. For a choral disk is the first release of the Russian State Choir heard in Pastschenko’s Storm on the Volga, and for vocals: two Lohengrin arias by Pertile and La Scala Orchestra (“Da voi lontan in sconosciuta terra,” and “Merce, merce, cigno gentile!”); Caro nome and the Romeo and Juliet waltz-song by Evelyn Scotney; Tosca arias by Browning Mummery; the Pagliacci Prologue by John Brownlee, two Handel arias by Peter Daw- son, and miscellaneous songs by Mavis Bennett, Leonard Gowings, etc. The Paul Robeson- Whiteman record and a number of other “Show- Boat hits are also featured. From Columbia comes Weingartner’s first re- lease in over a year, the Blue Danube Waltz, played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The two other features of the list are seven re- recordings by Stracciari, and a Ketelbey Album conducted by the composer with his own orches- tra. Dora Labbette, Macolm McEachern, Albert Sammons, and the B. B. C. Choir provide mis- cellaneous disks. See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1928 , by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.