RECORDED MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 18 (Supplement)

RECORDED MUSIC

Popular Monologues. Jack Lumsdaine has composed and rendered In Ills singing monologue style "So This Is Cricket,” which Is at least topical In Its humour, and recorded clearly. Memories of Chopin. "Memories of Chopin,” is a very melodious array of this composer's most popular music. Though many associate Chopin with the piano, the playing of the well-known J. 11. Squire Celeste Octet will have a very melodious array of this coming. Dance Records. Dance records from the latest list include "Just Humming Along" (foxtrot), and "Riddles” (one-step), played by the Blue Lyres; "Goodnight, Vienna ” (fox-trot) and “ You're the One" (fox-trot) and "You’re Blue Lyres; "Love Came Into My Heart" (fox-trot) and "Hill-top Heaven" (fox-trot)," played by the Orpheus Dance Band. Remarkable Negro Baritone. John Charles Thomas, Metropolitan Opera House negro baritone, makes a notable first recording. His Is one of the best voloes of the oentury. From the breathing softness of "Mah Lindy Lou" to the evangelioal shout in “Gwlne to Hebbin" (called A Negro Sermon on Rhythm), his range is perfeot, his enunciation faultlessly dear. "Mah Lindy Lou” Is sentimentally delightful; "Gwlne to Hebbln" has the real negro “Hallelujah" spirit.

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Brahams Leidor. j i Lotte Lehmann, who breathes ! artistic expression into every phrase j of her Cne soprano, sings two Brahms j leider, “The May Night," and “The | Vain Suit” (Parloplione). The former is the more typical Lehmann piece, tire other being excellently sustained at a difficult pitch, and, with iis spirited air, very interesting. She sings in German, with instrumental trio. Some Charming Irish Songs. There is nothing in all the world quite like the music of Ireland, those sweet sentimental ballads and traditional native songs that for generations past have never failed to inspire and warm Irish hearts. Terence O’Brien . has reoorded a selection of Irish songs known and loved the whole world over. He has instilled the real Irish spirit Into these old favourites, given them a treatment different from any you have ever heard before. They breathe of the Irish countryside. “ Molly Brannigan," to mention one number only, is an appealing example of Terence O’Brien’s art In interpreting the songs of his native land. These are the songs, and they will inspire and warm more than Irish hearts: “Mother Machree " and “A Little Bit of Heaven “ That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone ” and “ Little Town in the Ould County Down”; “ Molly Brannigan ” and “ The Lowbacked Car"; “The Meeting of the Waters ’’ and “ Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms”; and the Hermann Lohr gem, “ The Little Irish Girl ” and “ The Little Shawl of Blue." ■ rrs ' • % 1« » 1 — • >