Gramophone Notes
COLUMBIA.
The Halle Orchestra's performance of Berlioz's "Queen Mab Scherzo (under Sir Hamilton Harty) for this Company is notable chiefly because of the admirable quality of the strings. Bruno Walter and the Philharmonic Orchestra have also made very fine records of the Venusberg Music. The Andante Cantabile from Tschaikowsky's Opus 11 turns up periodically in one catalogue or another. The Catterall Quartet have now recorded this movement for. Columbia—a good enough performance, but why cannot the companies
co-operate to "aVoid needless repetitions ? * * * *
PARLOPHONE.
Franz Schreker, who is renowned as a composer of operas, and even more so as a teacher (he is Director of the Academical High School of Music in Berlin), now appears before the English gramophone public as a conductor. For this company he has recorded Bizet's " L'Arlesienne " Suite. His stress upon the importance of line in music, which has made an obvious impression in the music of his pupil, Ernst Krenek, is very marked in his deliberate playing of the Adagietto of this Suite. These records compare very favourably with those made of the same music by Eugene Goossens a few months ago. * * * *
BRUNSWICK.
If you wish to know how blue " blues can be, listen to the intriguing voice of Helen Morgan singing, " When I discover my Man." The dance records issued by this company are exceedingly clever. But this very efficiency grows monotonous. Two of these records are astonishingly slick—" Cornfed," by Nicholls and his Pennies, and Rhythm Step by Elizalde and his band. It is curious to think that Elizalde sat for a time at the feet of Ravel. From the evidence of his new sonata for violin and piano (published by Durand), it seems that Ravel has now turned pupil. BASIL MAINE.
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