Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1927-12)

\ cMUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW AXEL B. JOHK[SOXl, 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” All commuiiimtions 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. 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. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. Advertising rates upon application. All advertisements for the MART COLUMN must be accompanied by remittances in full; for rates see under MART COLUMN. Subscription and advertising agents given liberal commission. Write for particulars. General Review F ROM across the water came two works this month which we have all been eagerly await- ing, both prominent among those mentioned in our Contest, “Is Your Favorite Work Re- corded ?". Brahms' Fourth Symphony has never been recorded in its entirety before, but now H. M. V. fills this serious gap in recorded symphonies with a six-record complete version by Hermann Abendroth and the London Symphony. The other feature release is that of an electric set of Franck's Symphonic Variations, played by Cortot and the London Symphony, conducted by Sir Lan- lon Ronald, also for H. M. V. Other orchestral records from this company mclude three excerpts from Prokoffieff's Love of the Three Oranges, on one record, by Coates and the London Symphony; and the English re-pres- sing of the Chicago Symphony's record of Si- belius' Valse Triste, Rimsky-Korsakow's Flight of the Bumble-Bee, and Volkmann's Serenade. The Prokoffieff work is the first of that modern- ist composer to be recorded. Thibaud plays Brahms Waltz in A flat, and Debussy's Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Isolde Menges, Bach's Air on the G String, and the Chopin-Sarasate Nocturne in E flat; and Irene Scharrer (now touring this country in recital) plays Chopin's Etude in G flat, Mendelssohn's Bees' Wedding, and Sinding's Rustle of Spring. For vocals there are disks by Elena Gerhardt (Brahms' Geistliches Wiegenlied and Reger's Mariae Wiegenlied) ; Joseph Hislop (Faust and Werther arias) ; Tudor Davies, Peter Dawson, Marguerite D'Alvarez, and others. Also the choral record by the Staats und Domchor re- viewed elsewhere in this issue, and a second re- lease of the Choir of the Temple Church, London, with Master E. Lough as soloist. The English Columbia Company brings out several works this month which have already been known for some time in this country: the great Grainger-Brahms piano sonata, Debussy's Iberia, and Sir Dan Godfrey's version of the Mo- zart “Jupiter" Symphony. Mme. McCormic and Georges Thill sing a two-part duet from Manon; Mme. Guglielmetti is heard in arias from La Son- nambula; and there are instrumental records by Lionel Tertis (Arensky-Tertis Berceuse and Tar- tini-Kreisler Fugue in D) Arthur Catterall (Arensky Serenade and Dittersdorf Catterall Allegro in E flat) ; Pouishnoff (Rachmaninoff's Polichinelle and Prelude in B flat) ; Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra (Roses of the South and Vienna Blood waltzes) ; and the Plaza Theatre Orchestra (German's Gypsy Suite). Music lovers who have heard some of the carillon recitals by Kamiel Lefevre during his visit to this country will be interested in a carillon record of Annie Laurie and Believe Me If All Those En- dearing Young Charms played on the Ottawa Carillon at the Croyden Bell Foundry, before the bells were shipped over to Canada. Leading the Parlophone list, is another elec- See last pa£e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1927, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc ,