George Gershwin : Piano Concerto In F. Roy Bargy And
White- man's Concert Orchestra. (Brunswick. dos. 6d.) FOR anyone with half a guinea to spend on a recorded joke— though a rather stale joke by now—here is a highly recommended......
Bach-hess : Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring Scarlatti : Sonata
in G Major. Myra Hess. (H.M.V. 3s.) OF all the single records issued in the course of the last two months, this is infinitely the most desirable. Miss Hess made another......
Beethoven : Sonata In A Major, Op. 47 (the Kreutzer).
Lili Kraus and Simon Goldberg. (Parlophone. 24s.) OF the two ways of playing the Kreutzer Sonata—as chamber music or as a work for the concert hall—the majority of per- formers......
Gramophone Notes
Paderewski : Plano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 17. J. Sanroma and the Boston Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler. (H.M.V. Os.) THIS is a very sensible piece of......
Finance And Investment
By CUSTOS LIKE the B E F , financial markets have fought a rearguard action with tremendous doggedness and with astonishing suc- cess. True, there has been a sharp contrast......
Brahms : Fourth Symphony. Karl Bohm And The Saxon State
Orchestra. (H.M.V. 33s.) THERE are at least three good earlier recordings of this sym- phony—one of them was produced only about six months ago— and this set, though good enough......
Tchaikowsky : Fifth Symphony. Sir Thomas Beecham And The...
Philharmonic Orchestra. (Columbia. 3os.) FOR anyone who wants a new recording of this symphony, so full of pleasant music and so defective as a whole, this set may be......