Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 3, No. 7 (1929-04)

Q-MUSIC lovers PHONOGRAPH AXEL B. JOHHSOH, 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 twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- right and may be reproduced only by permission. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. 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. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Review O N THE Columbia domestic list for this month is a remarkably realistic recording of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, played by the Mozart Festival Symphony Orchestra led by Bruno Walter. Columbia is indeed fortunate it its choice of conductor for this delightful work of which there has never before been a com- pletely satisfactory recorded version. Next comes Smetana’s Trio in G minor, Op. 15, played by the Malkin Trio. I have not had the oppor- tunity of hearing this work, but the reviewers assure me that it is excellent in every respect. The third Masterworks set is de Falla’s El Amor Brujo, played by Pedro Morales and a Symphony Orchestra, and representing modern music’s con- tribution to this month’s Columbia Master- works. This work was reviewed some months ago in these pages from the British Columbia pressings. For orchestrals Columbia releases also the Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin, con- ducted by Bodanzky; a worthy second release in the Wagnerian series that began so auspiciously with the Prelude to Die Meister- singer; a coupling of the March from Prince Igor and an excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakow’s Antar Symphony, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; and a very brilliant performance of the Grand March from Aida, by the Milan Sym- phony and Chorus conducted by Molajoli. This is one of the remarkable Fonotipia series of operatic works directed by Molajoli, others of which undoubtedly will soon be made available under the Columbia label in this country. Other celebrity releases from Columbia are two Brahms songs by Alexander Kipnis, I Hear a Thrush at Eve and Because sung by Charles Hackett, two Handel arias sung by Fraser Gange, Kreisler’s Caprice Viennois and the Tar- tini-Kreisler Variations on a Theme by Corelli played by Naoum Blinder, Cui’s Orientale and the Drigo-Auer Valse Bluette played by Zimbal- ist, arias from Sonnambula and I Pescatori di Perle sung by Dino Borgioli, and two songs in Creole dialect sung by Edna Thomas. The Kipnis, Blinder, Zimbalist, and Thomas records are particularly noteworthy. The Columbia dance list presents an unusually strong combina- tion of attractions, led by Guy Lombardo’s sensational orchestra, The Royal Canadians. The long awaited Romeo and Juliet Overture of Tchaikowsky is first on the Victor list. This is unquestionably one of the best recorded per- formances of the year, and a new feather in the cap of Stokowski and the Philadelphia Sym- phony. The second album set is Grieg’s Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, played by no less artists than Rachmaninoff and Kreisler. This is the first time that these great artists have been recorded together and it goes without saying that their performance is of the highest calibre. Stock’s performance of the Second Bach Suite (B minor) is easily his finest recording to date, and these two disks are one of the season’s most notable contributions to the rapidly growing list of recorded Bach works. The only other orchestral disk is the Forza del Destino Overture in a bril- See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1929, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc,