DISC MUSIC

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 77, 24 January 1930, Page 3

DISC MUSIC

GRAMOPHONE NOTES

SOMETHING ABOUT KECOkOS* Plantation Sengs. jPaul Robeson. (bass), with chorus and orchestra.; Plantation songs (two parts), “So Early in the Morning”, “Carry Mo'Back to Old Virginny”, “Old Folks at Home”, “Coed-night Ladies’’, Away Hown South in l)ix- 1 io”, “Poor Old Joe”, “Oh, Susanna”, aind “My Old .Kentucky Home”. H.M.V., C. 1585,

Robeson makes plantation songs almost as moving as negro spirituals, | with nothing else than dignified, clean singing.. An Object Lesson for Singers. Amelita Galli-Cnrci (soprano). ‘La Paloina” (Yradier) in Spanish, piano accompaniment, and “La Capinerk (Benedict), in Italian, orchestral ac- 1 compauimenf. Galli-Curei endows both airs with I. delicate touches galore, and “La Oapinera” in particular with a tone, deliciously soft, sweet, and restrained. What an object-lesson for some singers l in {jho avoidance/ (of mere loudness and noise! :: :: ; Gems of 1929. | The following H.M.V. discs are j considered by one fastidious selector ! to he the H.M.V. Opera Gems of 1929: — Segrid Onegin, “Che faro”. I 1 Rosa Ponselle’s numbers from “Norma” ; Dusolina Giaimini “Mare, pietosa Vergine” from “La Forza del Destine” • and Walter 1 Widdop, “Comfort Ye”. Fine Cello Playing, j One likes Lauri Kennedy’s playing ' very much. His tone lias significance yet is flexible, his technique is cou- | siderahle, but always serving the purpose of the music. The phrasing is fresh. On H.M.V. 01595 he plays , Popper’s “Hungarian Rhapsody”, and two song-arrangements, Brahms’s . “Wiegenliecl” (Or a die Song) and j | ''Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught 1 me”., All of it. i.s worth listening \ to. A Selector’s Perferences. Individual perferences rire always of interest because they are quite, often suggestive. Her is on© from the H.M.V. list;— D 1451. Verdi; Two arias from “Aida” (Rethberg), 1>1460. Handel; Rinaldo —“Lasci-a ch’ia piajiga”, and Saint-Saen.s : Samson et Heliia—“Mon coeur” (Olcze- < wska).] j‘ a i ; D .A. 884. Mozart: Two aria® from “Le Nozze di Figaro” (Schumann).

1 D.A.815. ■ Mozairt; 15cm Giovanni--I “Veclrai Carino” and Mozart; “Alle- ) luia” (Schumann), j ' E. 464. Mozart: Overture tc/ “Die ) Zanberflote (8.5.0.0., conducted by . Blech). . Dl-84. [Wagner. “Meisthrsingor’» . Prelude to. Act 3 conducted by ' Coates).