Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 6 (1928-03)

Q-MUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH E AXEL B. JOH?{SOX[, 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 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 T HE current British release lists are surpris- ingly barren of major works. Evidently the two-volume Messiah set from Columbia and the Valkyrie and Gondoliers albums from H.M.V. have exhausted the manufacturers’ energies for a time. There are a large number of miscellane- ous disks, however, many of which are of special interest,—notably a Lohengrin Prelude (Act I) by Mengelberg and his Concertgebuow Orchestra, and Dvorak’s Carnival Overture by Hamilton Harty, both of which are issued by Columbia. From the same company come also Wagner’s Homage and Kaiser Marches played by Dan God- frey ; Mendelssohn’s Ruy Bias Overture by Percy Pitt and the B. B. C. Orchestra; folk dances by the English Orchestra; duets from Aida by Lom- bardi and Merli; Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois and Debussy’s Menuet played by Szigeti, violin- ist; a 2-part Bach aria, Comfort Sweet, sung by Dora Labbette; and lesser vocal and instrumental numbers. For novelty there are parts 5 and 6 of Two Black Crows, and a recording of the half- muffled Bells of St. Paul’s, taken on Armistice Day. The H. M. V. list is unusually scanty in large scale works: Elgar re-records his Bavarian Dances Nos. 1 and 2; Siegfried Wagner re-re- cords his father’s Siegfried Idyll; Dr. Leo Blech does Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Overture; and Coates issues a coupling of the Holst Dance of the Spirits of the Earth (out in this country on the fourth side of his La Valse) and Mercury from The Planets. For vocals, Austral sings Ritorna vincitor from Aida; Friedrich Schorr does Sach’s Monologue from Act II of Die Meis- tersinger; Peter Dawson does miscellaneous op- eratic arias; and Giannini, Chaliapin, Bori, and Tibbett are heard in English pressings of pieces they have recently released here. There is a special Elgar release of four records by the Three-Choirs Festival Chorus heard in excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius and The Music Makers. Of the four leading instrumentals, those by Landowska, Casals, and Rachmaninoff have been out for some time in this country; the fourth is Schumann’s Cradle Song and Scott’s Caprice Chinois played by Mark Hambourg. Parlophone issues the feature of the month, an album of six ten-inch records of twelve songs from Schubert’s cycle, Winterreise, sung by Rich- ard Tauber. Following come Arthur Bodanzky conducting the Berlin State Opera House Or- chestra in the Wine, Women and Song Waltz, and Dr. Weissmann leading the same orchestra in the Poet and Peasant Overture and the Midsum- mer Night’s Dream March and Scherzo which ap- pear this month under the Odeon label here. Pistor and Pfahl-Wallerstein sing two duets from See last pa&e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1928 , by the Phonograph Publishing Company , Inc.