GRAMOPHONE RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 5

GRAMOPHONE RECITAL

AN UNUSUAL PROGRAMME The twelfth gramophone recital by Ernest Dawson, Ltd., was held at the Concert Chamber last night before a crowded house. The gramophone used was again His Master’s Voice Re-entrant, but a new instrument, an electrically-con-trolled machine, capable of playing a twohour programme without having to be handled al all. This was used for the first ' two numbers, the Prelude from . “Lohe.nI grin,” played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra (a two-sided record), and the song from Lohengrin to the Swan, sung by Aureliano Pertile with the ‘La Scala’ Orchestra and chorus. These were very fine records, and the tone of the instrument was very soft. Other items played on the ordinary handcontrolled Re-entrant gramophone were Arlesienne Intermezzo of Bizet, played as a duet by Fritz Kreisler and his brother, Hugo Kreisler, the latter on the ’cello. Duet from “Traviata” (Verdi) by Galli-Curci and De Luca, Military March (Schubert) by William Backhaus on the piano, Quartet by Tschaikovsky, played by the Elman String Quartet, led bv Mischa Elman, Marie Olczewska singing from Handel’s “Rinaldo,” Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) of Beethoven, played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Valse of Glazounoff played by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Peter 1 Dawson in the ‘‘Song of the Flea” (Moussorgsky), Jascha Heifetz playing Valse Bluette, by Drigo, Elizabeth Schumann s.nging “Standchen” (Strauss), “The Glow Worm Idyll” (Lincke), played by the New Light Symphony Orchestra, Plantation Songs given by Pa J Robeson and chorus, “The Swan” (Saint Saens), played on the organ of Queen’s Hall. London, by Marcel Dupre, the Negro Spirituel, “Deep River,” sung by Marion Anderson, and Largo (Xerxes) of Handel, played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dawson gave brief explanatory notes before the heavier items. Mr. Harison Cook sang during the evening Falstaff’s “Drinking Song,” by Nicolai, and as an encore “Rolling Down to Rio” (German), and songs from “Il Seraglio” (Mozart), and Mephistopheles’ Serenade from “Faust” (Gounod).