GRAMOPHONE NOTES
AMONG the latest recordings the most important is that of Gustav Holst's The Hymn of 7esus (H.M.V. C3399-CS340r) sung by the Huddersfield Choral Society with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Dr. Malcolm Sargent. This is an excellent per- formance of one of Hoist's most attractive works and fills a gap in the recording of modern English music.
It is exceedingly difficult to write a good march but Sousa indis- putably wrote several that are very good indeed. Here are two of therm which I can recommend and though they are familiar they have lost nothing of their stimulating liveliness, being full of real invention : "Stars and Stripes for Ever" and "Washington Post" brilliantly played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy (H.M.V. DA 1845). Another excellent new item is the recording of the famous American contralto, Marian Anderson, of two Negro spirituals "Let us break bread together" and "Oh!
What a beautiful city" (H.M.V. DA 1846). T.
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