Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 4, No. 7 (1930-04)

aMUSIC LOVERS ' PHONOGRAPH 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 V ICTOR’S three album sets for April are headed by Toscanini’s superb performance of Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony in D ma- jor, with the Dance of the Spirits from Gluck’s Orfeo for good measure on the odd record side— a set that surpasses even the highly praised “Clock” Symphony of a few months ago. The other two albums are Schumann’s Carnaval as played by Sergei Rachmaninoff—his first album set to be devoted to a major solo piano work, and the celebrated Pelleas et Melisande excerpts that many of our readers already know from the French H. M. V. pressings and which were re- viewed from them in these pages over a year or more ago. The Victor orchestral records include the Waldweben from Siegfried in a magnificent re- cording by Willem Mengelberg and the Philhar- monic-Symphony of New York, Rossini’s Semi- ramide Overture in a characteristically spark- ling performance by Rosario Bourdon and the Victor Symphony, and several light disks by the Victor Novelty Orchestra and Victor Salon Or- chestra,—the latter featuring the first recorded appearance of the Victor Theremin, played by Zinaida Hauenfeldt. Two of the Red Seal releases failed to arrive in time for review: Master Menu- hin’s performances of the Adagio from Mozart’s G major violin concerto and a Sarabande and Tambourin by Leclair, arranged by Sarasate; and a Casals’ disk containing Dvorak’s Songs My Mother Taught Me, Rimsky-Korsakow’s Flight of the Bumble Bee, and Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words in D. The other leading works are the Elegie from Tchaikowsky’s String Sere- nade, Op. 48, played by the Philadelphia Cham- ber String Simfonietta; coloratura arias from Don Carlos and La Favorita sung by Sigrid One- gin; highly spirited arias from Andrea Chenier and Girl of the Golden West, sung by a new re- cording tenor, Armand Tokatyan; Old English and Welsh airs in sympathetic interpretations by Reinald Werrenrath; theme songs from current films by Richard Crooks; and Gems from the Love Parade and Sunny Side Up by the Victor Light Opera Company. The popular vocal list featuring a number of prominent radio and film artists: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Fanny Brice, Olga Albani, Welcome Lewis, etc., etc. The announcement of Brunswick’s next Inter- national Hall of Fame release has not yet come to hand as I write, but the Missa Solemnis, the fine orchestral disks conducted by Wolff, Priiwer, and Kopsch, and the organ record by Alfred Sittard (announced last month) are all reviewed in this issue. Special comment should go to Brunswick’s dance list, always extensive and meritous, but this month unusually long and evenly high in standard. (As we go to press, the Brunswick advertisement, containing a list of the April re- leases, has just reached us. See the inside back cover.) No new Odeon celebrity releases have reached us in time for review this month, as the last is- See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1930, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.