NOTABLE NEW RECORD RELEASES

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 18, 9 November 1934, Page 15

NOTABLE NEW RECORD RELEASES

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NF (NE. of the stars in the Fuller ‘opera season, now in full’ swing across the Tasman, is Brown.wg Munmery, surely one of the most. r'estrainect and artistic tenors before the-public .to-day. His performance on a new H.M.V. record of "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen," from: Puccini’s ‘La Boheme. * is, moving in its tenderness and pathos. Sung in English, it is likely: to. help t» fil. opera house in whatever tow the « ‘company plays, because. everyon" who. hears the record will want to sec and, hear Mummery in.the.flesh. On the reverse side the Australian: tenuvt sings "On With ‘the Motley,". from Leoncavi allo’s "Pagliacci." A wonderful dise. , pace. ROBESON sings. two Negr. -luilabies,. "Doan You Ory, M: Honey" (Noll),. and Murray’s ’Picenninny Slumber. Song," on a fine ‘little

record. In these, as in all his’ songs, he reveals more of the true personality of. his race than haif a dozen learned treatises and discourses. James Dougias said once in the "Daily Ex press": "Robeson’s songs are the mother songs of mankind, hidden song: that all men and women hear whis pering in their buried memory. It inot only the dreaming Negro.soul tha’ yearns in these cumulative refrains, I: is the sad soul of humanity. reachin. out into the mystery of life and death. Robeson reveals to us the heart « mankind in these two cradle songs a lovable race. , "BARCAROLLE in F Sharp maje. Op. 60," is an exquisite bo: song, and the only work of Chop bearing this title. Tausig, the great master pianist of last century, . wh.’ ioved ‘the piece, said that he believed it too intimate for publit performance and that it should never be heard b. more than two persons at a time. He read into it a delicate love poem. breathed softly’ and ‘fervently, dying way in a happy. moment of indeseribable beauty. And in like mood

must Alfred Cortot have approached it to make of the piece one of the greatest gems.of.all recorded piano music:. It 1s a record:to possess and ‘cherish. [ another record Mischa Levitzki reveals a totally different Chopinthe one of the great "Polonaise in A flat "major, Op: 53," ‘which pictures for us le ancient glory ‘of Poland-of & grim castle with towers and moat, armoured knights, courtiy. scenes, and the hurrying tread of a cavalca¢de returning from a "triumph. "We are toid that Chopin conceived -the composition one night when he was enfeebled with iilmess, and intensely excited with the fever-glow of composition, In a‘ delirium he imagined a’ phantom army riding "in the ‘snight. . The thunder of. roofs is not to detect in Levitzki's | ; splendid, recording, and. ‘the’ : whole effect is invigorating g,. ‘stimulating, ang « & musical. tonic, °: These, are but four outstanding records. ‘in’ the © H.M.V. November releases, another deserving mention is Gigli’s singing of "La Donna e Mobile,".from Verdi’s "Rigoletto, " and "The. Stars... Were Shinine" from "Tosa." a . .