Gramophone Notes
THE only previous recording of this Symphony-almost the most impressive, as it is almost the most popular, of all Sibelius' works-was that made for an early volume of the......
Schubert : Quartet In G Major, Op. 161. Busch Quartet
(H.M.V. DB 3744-8. 30S.) IT is five years since this superb quartet was recorded, and this recording is preferable to the last, both in technical and in musical quality. The......
Report On Competition No. 25 Readers Were Invited To Compose
composite poems beginning with the line-" Who is the happy warrior? Who is he "- using not more than two consecutive lines from any one poem ; alteration of punctuation, but not......
Liszt : Concerto No. 2 In A Major. Emil Sauer
with Weingar- mer and Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire. Paris. (Columbia. LX 862-4_ i8s.) THIS is a fair performance of this familiar work, but hardl , , as......
Beethoven : Eroica Variations In E Flat Major, Op. 35.
Lili Krauss. (Parlophone. RO 20470-2. i8s.) THE Eroica Variations were recently recorded - rather un- satisfactorily-by Schnabel for the Beethoven Sonata Society. Miss Krauss'......
Schubert : Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 168. Busch
Quartet. (H.M.V. DB 3737-9. i8s.) THIS quartet-a youthful composition in essence, despite the opus number-is of very varied quality. The first two move- ments, though possessing......
This Is A Cheerful Farrago Of Familiar Tunes, Not All
of them incidentally " Sea Songs " and not all of them British. It in musical terms, something of the inspiriting quality of a speech by the First Lord of the Admiralty. The......
The Spectator Competitions No. 27 Prizes Of Book Tokens For
£2 2s. and Li is. are offered for the most entertaining publishers' blurbs designed to advertise either Hansard, Bradshaw, or the London Telephone Directory as a book for......
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