Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1929-11)

c MUSIC LOVERS’ AXEL B. JOW^SOl^., 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 T HE Odeon list is rapidly growing in size and interest. This month the leading releases are a four-art concerted scene, finale of the second act of Aida, sung by Randaccio, Minghini- Cattaneo, Montelauri, etc.; and a splendid per- formance of the finale of the second act of Johann Strauss’ Fledermaus, sung by the celebrity quin- tet of Lotte Lehmann, Richard Tauber, Karin Branzell, Waldemar Stageman, and Grete Mer- rem-Nikisch under the direction of Dr. Weiss- man. Dr. Weissmann also conducts a superla- tively brilliant March Revue, Hurrah! Here Comes the Music!, and a very good version of the Semiramis Overture. Edith Lorand’s Orchestra is heard in Greig’s Fourth Norwegian Dance and Monti’s Csardas, Dajos Bela’s Orchestra plays a two-part version of Fucik’s Danube Legends Waltz, and the Odeon Military Orchestra plays the March of the Little Soldiers and Onward to Victory. I have information from Odeon of- ficials that the Odeon release lists are to become still more extensive, and that a return will be made to the old custom of issuing the excellent album sets that won so many friends for Odeon in the past. The first of these major works is due in December. The Columbia list is topped by the American release of the Bayreuth Tristan and Isolde set, nineteen records in two albums. This imposing work was reviewed in detail from the imported pressings by R. H. S. P. in our July issue. The other Masterworks albums for this month are Gaubert’s highly interesting reading of the Franck Symphony (for comment on which refer- ence should be made to R. D. D.’s enthusiastic re- iew in this issue), and a new version of the old war-horse, Schubert’s “Unfinished”, played this time by the distinguished Vienna conductor, Dr. Franz Schalk. Other orchestral works include a fine version of the Magic Flute Overture conduct- ed by Bruno Walter, Delius’ Summer Night on the River conducted by that composer’s most sym- pathetic and able interpreter Sir Thomas Bee- cham, a Don Giovanni Selection by Sir Dan God- frey and the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, J. St. A. Johnson’s Pax Vobiscum (a prize-winner in the British zone of last year’s Schubert con- test), and a spirited version of La Forza del Des- tino Overture conducted by Molajoli. Yvonne Gall of the Paris Opera sings arias from Tosca, W. H. Squire plays ’cello solos by D’Herveloise and Sir Hamilton Harty, artists and orchestra of the Paris Opera are heard in the Church Scene, Soldiers’ Chorus, and La Kermesse from Faust, Felix Salmond plays ’cello versions of Schumann’s Abendlied and Debussy’s Minuet, Tancredi Pas- ero sings bass arias from Mefistofele, the Repub- lican Guard Band plays Mohr’s Variations on a Swiss Theme, Lionel Tertis plays violin arrange- ments of a Bach Adagio and the Melody in F, Rettore and Borgioli sing duets from Don Pas- quale, Luigi Montesanto sings II Credo from Otello and Moussorgsky’s Song of the Flea, and See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1929. by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.