Word: albums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calypsos (Wilmoth Houdini; Decca). Three-disc album of Trinidad's unique babu-pa-doop. Note Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...
Johann Strauss: Album of Rediscovered Music (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). Poking about the collection of Straussiana that the late Railroad Tycoon Paul Lowenberg left to the Library of Congress (TIME, Aug. 7), Columbia researchers last spring dug up five lost dances by Vienna's Waltz King. Well uncorked by Conductor Barlow, they are up to Strauss's champagne standard...
...Album of American Music for Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Conductor Hanson's anthology (mostly of familiar items by Chadwick, MacDowell, et al.) is chiefly remarkable for the first recording of a shimmering little impressionistic piece, Night Soliloquy by a 26-year-old Michigan composer named Kent Wheeler Kennan...
...Album of Early Cantatas and Songs (Isabel French, soprano, and Hugues Cuenod, tenor; Technichord:*10 sides). When 18th-Century Parisian Jean Philippe Rameau took time off from writing the first modern treatise on the art of composition, he composed deft, archaic, but charmingly tuneful music. His cantata L' Impatience, along with songs and cantatas by Monteverdi, Schütz and Thomas Arne, gives French Tenor Hugues Cuenod a chance for some fancy, old-style tenor...
Earl Mines Album (Hot Record Society) does for "Father" Hines what Commodore has done for The Lion but metronomic, implacably austere Pianist Hines does not do quite so well for himself...