Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 7 (1928-04)

a MUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW AXEL B. JOHJ\[SOK[, 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 M OST noteworthy of the current British re- leases are the long-awaited records of the Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn, which for added interest are conducted by the famous ’cellist, Pablo Casals, a conductor of high reputation in his own right. The H.M.V. list which is headed by this work contains also a re- recording of Coates’ version of the Jupiter Sym- phony, and from the same conductor, Uranus from Holst’s Planets. The Royal Opera Orchestra is heard in the Entr’acte, Act IV, and the Ballet Music from Carmen; the Budapest String Quar- tet—remembered for its recording of Dvorak’s “American” Quartet—does Mozart’s in B major (“The Hunt”) ; Master E. Lough sings the aria I Know that My Redeemer Liveth; Dupre plays Bach’s organ Fantasia and Fugue in C minor; Mark Hambourg plays the Rakoczy March and the Liszt-Mendelssohn On Wings of Song. The re- maining works are either re-recordings (Irene Scharrer’s performance of Mozart’s piano Son- ata in G, Austral’s singing of two famous Strauss songs, etc.), or works which have already ap- peared here (Backhaus’ version of Beethoven’s Pathetiqiie, Paderewski’s record of Schelling’s Nocturne a Raguze, Cortot and Casals in the Beethoven-Mozart Variations, etc.). From Columbia come records of Clara Butt (Abide with Me and God shall Wipe Away All Tears), A. M. Guglielmetti (Proch’s Variations and Gli Angeli d’inferno from the Magic Flute), and the noted Spanish ’cellist Gaspar Cassado (Handel’s Largo, Granados’ Spanish Dance, Schu- mann’s Evening Song, and Faure’s Aprts un Reve.) Licette and Noble sing a two-part aria from the Barber of Seville, Johann Strauss plays the Voices of Spring Waltz of his father, the Court Symphony Orchestra plays the Dance of the Hours, Raymond Newell does more sea shanties from Terry’s Shanty Book, William Mur- doch plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, Dr. Wilson plays Guilmant’s Organ Offertory on two Christmas Carols. There are in addition an unusual number of popular records from current London and New York musical shows. The Parlophone List is a lengthy one, led by an outstanding celebrity disk of duets from Tosca sung by Lotte Lehmann and Jan Kiepura. Also in the Parlophone-Odeon series are four records by Di Mazzei, leading tenor of the Paris Opera- Comique, accompanied by the orchestra of that organization; duets from II Trovatore by Pertile and Cattaneo; and novelties in the way of Maori songs and Hakas recorded in New Zealand by native Maori singers. Under the regular Parlo- phone label are Dr. Weissmann’s re-made Pre- See last pag,e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1928 , by the Phonograph Publishing Company , Inc.