RECORDED MUSIC.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 November 1923, Page 5

RECORDED MUSIC.

lb a peculiar coincidence that If the leading gramophone reIpulilishei's decided almost at lime time to bring out fulli records of Tchaikovski’s letic” Symphony (No. (i in B ). There are differences in deI een these two tine sets. I Isas an English critic) will in admirers, and as fo r the L'liv itself, the performances kliii during the past 30 years In In be the most popular of pilern symphony. a Buffo’s singing of the little "When ] was Page to the Duke rfolk,” from Verdi’s “Fal-

ls said to indicate that Ruffo be a very lively Falstaff. A sense of comedy is felt in his Iteiistie singing of it. F said that. Beniamino Gigh’s id the big aria from Gioropdra "Andre Chenier,” fsr unaphone, proves him to have I rnig of Caruso’s splendid ind rich quality.

1 1'ldipm, arrived in England mid sailed for the United “itliout making a public apN '. Before he left, however, S iii what is probably the I audience he has ever had—i °f course, if we accept the "I'amophone” audiencb of I'bilst walking round the homusic of the Savoy-Orpheans 'tmetedhim, and iie suggested ! should make a contribution l,o "’'amme. Music was quick‘"h mid the astonished mu"ele Seated to two songs, amazing progress that has mde in recording orchestral b "ell illustrated in a series 'i double-sided records, on " Koyal Albert Hall orehesl(|||tedby Sir Landon Ronus Beethoven’s Symphony “ C Minor (Op. 67)'. This ''idi work is brilliantly 1 the recording is as neajr ‘' s <me could wish. Indeed, tie more ambitious of the “ 'l'cordings has the result t'enly good throughout. " m k that the lover of ormiisif. should investigate. '” l,so records seem to be ! '" . month < a de Gogorza ), >‘A la (Anton Miclielena) .'l'iimlh. Spanish melody hSv ; , , " ' - 1 ' .' I'lis mill melan'urn. v.. , .a. . ns languorous , lin - "iih the ardour ie' e , :r ( l u 'te 'landing feature of the .'t; Caru'"mm , ■vmmding L J l ' '-he siilise<|uent ! M/ -lists