Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 3, No. 10 (1929-07)

c MUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH E AXEL B. JOHNSON, 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 All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- at the Studio, 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. All right and may be reproduced only by permission. unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in stamped envelope. Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- 35 cents. GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Review T HE Okeh Corporation furnishes some of the most interesting releases of the month, be- ginning with a masterly performance of the Preludes to Acts I and III of Die Meistersinger, played by Max von Schillings—one of the greatest Wagnerian conductors—and the Grand Sym- phony Orchestra. Dr. Weissmann is represented by a very sonorous recording of the Prelude to Act III of Erich Korngold's Das Wunder der Hiliane, an opera little known in this country. The Grand Odeon Orchestra is also heard in two excellent disks, one devoted to a two-part per- formance of Lortzing's very pleasing overture, Ondine, and the other (ten-inch) to Dvorak's Slavonic Dances Nos. 9 and 16. Unfortunately the conductor is not given label credit, although he acquits himself most creditably and makes these two works valuable additions to the lighter symphonic recorded literature. Also on the Odeon list is a brilliant Carmen Fantasy by Dajos Bela and his orchestra, and Strauss' Wine, Women and Song, and Southern Roses waltzes, played by Edith Lorand and her orchestra. The popular and dance lists contain a number of noteworthy disks, particularly in the “hot jazz" class. There is no album set from the Columbia Com- pany this month, and the only Masterworks rec- ords are the Three-Corned Hat Dances of de Falla, played by Sr. Arbos and the Madrid Sym- phony as mentioned in the last issue for which they arrived just too late for review. The out- standing other releases are: a brilliant version of the William; Tell Overture by Sir Henry Wood and the New Queen's Hall Orchestra (two ten inch disks) ; a very fine orchestral record in the lighter class of an Aida Selection and Loin de Bal, played by Percy Pitt and the B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra—easily the best release of this organi- zation to date; a Meistersinger Selection played by the Grenadier Guards Band; a male chorus record by the Staats und Domchor under Profes- sor Riidel (Ein' Feste Burg 1st XJnser Gott and Lobe den Herrn) ; a new record by the Don Cos- sacks Choir (Evening Bells and Abt's Serenade) ; Mozart's Sonata in A major played by Lionel Ter- tis as arranged for viola; a very fine piano record by Myra Hess whereon she plays Griffes' White Peacock and de Falla's popular Ritual Fire Dance; Debussy's Romance and Simonetti's Madrigale played by W. H. Squire, 'cellist; the debut disk of a very promising young soprano, Ruth Stieff, heard in Estrellita and Cielito Lindo; and a march coupling by the University of Notre Dame Orchestra. The popular vocal list is particularly strong this month. The Brunswick leaders are a new Albert Spald- ing release, Raff's Cavatina and Sarasate's Ro- manza Andaluza played in his usual admirable fashion; Cornin' Thro' the Rye and My Laddie, sung by Florence Easton; excerpts from Jewels of the Madonna and Hamlet sung by Giacomo Rimini; and two outstanding disks in the popular See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1929, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.