Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 5 (1928-02)

cMUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGCAPH 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: t( Phono” 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. 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 A S noted in this column last month, the seasonal delay in foreign mail prevented * our obtaining information of the usual listing of current releases abroad. Many of the works that would have been listed in this group have already been announced for release in this country and are reviewed or mentioned elsewhere in this issue. The others are led by Columbia's two volume issue of a complete electrical Messiah as sung in Central Hall, Westminster, under the direction of Sir Thomas Beecham. The soloists are Hubert Eisdell, Harold Williams, Muriel Brunskill, and Dora Labbette, assisted by the B. B. C. Choir, organ and orchestra. There are eighteen twelve-inch records in all. The Amer-. ican re-pressings will no doubt be available be- fore long. Also on the lengthy Columbia list are the Bayreuth Festival records, mentioned in the last issue, and a great arr^y of miscellaneous works. Hamilton Harty plays a two-part Schu- bert Rosamunde Overture; Mengelberg and his own Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra re- appear after an absence of many months with a three-part Cherubini Anacreon Overture and the Allegretto Scherzando from Beethoven's Eight Symphony; William Murdoch plays Chop- in’s A flat Ballad; Maria Gentile sings two arias from Lucia di Lammermoor, and Dame Clara Butt is heard in The Knight of Bethlehem, Trees, Deep River, and The Minstrel Boy. The Court Symphony Orchestra plays excerpts from the Blue Bird; The B.B.C. Symphony (under Pitt) plays selections from Aida; The League of Arts Choir sings a group of shanties unaccompanied; Johann Strauss (fils) plays his father’s Fleder- maus Selection; the St. George's Chapel Choir is heard in four Christmas carols; and Leff Pouishnoff plays Grainger’s Shepherd's Hey and Paderewski's Caprice in G major. Others re- presented are Albert Sammons, Hubert Eisdell, La Scala Chorus, Norman Allin, Tom Burke, William Primrose, Kamiel Lefevere (carillon solos)), Salisbury Singers, Herman Finck's Or- chestra, and many others. From the Parlophone company come what are described as the “first Wagnerian records made by the new Parlophone electric recording." Ar- thur Bodansky, of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, is the Conductor, and the orches- tra is that of the Berlin State Opera House. There is a three-part Die Meistersinger Prelude, a two-part Lohengrin Prelude to Act 1, and a one-part Prelude to Act III. Dr. Morike is repre- sented by a two-part Blue Danube Waltz, Karol Szreter by a piano transcription of the Voices of Spring Waltz, Gotthelf Pistor and Ivar Andresen by vocal excerpts from Parsival, Edith Lorand, See last pag,e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1928, by the Phonograph Publishing Company , Inc.