Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1929-12)

c MUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH E AXEL B. JOHNSOK 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 Victor Company makes the eagerly an- ticipated Bach Album (Masterpieces M-59) by Stokowski available in good time for Christmas, and fulfills the promise made in an advertisement in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s program books last spring when it said that be- fore the year was out Stokowski’s far-famed per- formances of Bach’s Second Brandenburg Con- certo, the Passacaglia in C minor, and the Chorale-vorspiel—Wir Glauben’ All’ in einem Gott, would be obtainable on records. It goes almost without saying that the performance and recording are of the same supreme excellence that marked Dr. Stokowski’s record of the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor. And for extra measure there is a separate record of the Shepherds’ Christmas Music also conducted by Dr. Stokowski. The other album is the monu- mental Gotterdammerung set (M-60) reviewed in our August issue by R. H. S. P. from the Bri- tish pressings. Another long-awaited work is Ravel’s Second Daphnis et Chloe Suite that Dr. Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony have played with great success on. tour throughout the East and Middle West. Their records of this brilliant work should find equal favor. There are three orchestral disks in the black label class; the Intermezzos from the Jewels of the Madonna conducted by Rosario Bourdon in his most polish- ed and effective manner; Werner Janssen’s New Year’s Eve in New York, an ambitious work that makes striking use of jazz idioms and effects, and is given an extremely vigorous performance by Mr. Shilkret; and Shilkret’s own Skyward, com- memorating the transatlantic flight of Comman- der Byrd in the “America.” Also on the Victor list are: Debussy’s Chil- dren’s Corner Suite played by an acknowledged master of French piano music, Alfred Cortot; Bloch’s Jewish Improvisation—Nigun played by the wunderkind, Yehudi Menuhin; a Schubert miscellany sung by John McCormack with the Victor Salon Group under Nathaniel Shilkret; Soldiers’ Choruses from Norma and Trovatore beautifully sung by the Metropolitan Opera Chorus under Setti; a disk of sensational colora- tura singing by Sigrid Onegin (arias from Les Huguenots and Le Prophete) ; arias from Luisa Miller and Rigoletto sung by Schipa; two Rigo- letto arias sung by De Luca with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra; and another disk recorded at an actual performance of the Asso- ciated Glee Clubs of America at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Of the three Columbia Masterworks scheduled for release this month only one has reached us in time for review in this issue, the ineffably beautiful Mozart Symphony in C major, played by Sir Thomas Beecham, and one of the finest recorded examples of Mozart (Masterworks Set 123). The other two sets are Mozart’s Quintet See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1929, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc. /