Other Features

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 5, 15 August 1930, Page 28

Other Features

THER are other noteworthy musical features of the week. "Merry England," as part of Ohristchurch Music Week, will be presented from 8YA Saturday next. It is comprehensively recorded on both H.M.V. and Columbia, but certain of the wom chosen for review should prove 0! terest to those who wish to make their collection representative only. On Columbia 926 the Light Opera Company record vocal gems. The company is a good combination of voices of all pitch and textures, They are heard in solo and choruses happily mixed. There

are some delightful choruses in this light opera and the best have been selected for this record. It occupies "woth sides. 4 AND selections by the Grenadier Guatds Band make a good record on the electrically produced Columbia 02804. There is no doubt that the Guardsmen are a splendid combination and they make the most of these selections from the light opera. The bright swinging music is varied and well rendered. It is given a chance by the electrical methods employed in the production, which makes the record stand out from the large number of the selections played by the Guardsmen ov records produced by the older methods, The "Rosamund Overture," played the week, makes a fine record as"a recording of the Halle Orchestra, under the baton of Sir Hamilton ‘Harty, on Columbia 04197. This typically Schubert overture is well rendered and fully recorded. The record is a bright one that improves as it is played, for there is a considerable amount of detail that can be discovered only by repetition. Being electrically recorded the overture is very full. The Norwegian Rhapsody, also play ed during the week, is recorded on Columbia 02891 by the Paris Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship of Pierre Chagon. Right from the start this record promises to be a good one, and it soon develops colour and eontrast that makes a bright selection. In it there are some truly delightfu! passages-light, airy phrases from violin and flute, jingling percussion in "struments, and the deep thumping of the timpany and side-drums. It is a ast-moving record that cannot fail to please.