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...Edelmann by Richard Strauss and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50) -The composer's own version of the charming, satirical music he wrote for Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by Karl Muck and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Muck (Victor, 2 records, $2 ea.)-Wagner made this music for Cosima's birthday when their son Siegfried was one year old. Conductor Muck plays it superbly. Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Bruno Walter and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia, $2)-Manhattan's new man promises great Strauss for next year. The recording...
Chopin's Fantasia in F Minor by Marguerite Long (Columbia, 2 records, $1 ea.)-A Frenchwoman plays expertly the composer for whom the run of women-pianists seem to have the greatest flair...
Mendelssohn: Midsummer-Night's Dream: Overture (Columbia, two records. $2 ea.). Probably the best, certainly the most popular of all Mendelssohn, this overture was written when the composer was a youth of 17. Columbia's new rendition is conducted ably but not brilliantly by Elie Cohen, Chef d'Orchestre at the Paris Opera Comique...
Brahms: Sonata in D Minor (Columbia, 3 records, $2 ea.). Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and Pianist Harry Kaufman in a late period Brahms that is variously tender, vibrantly gay, mournful, resigned...
Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole (Victor, 2 records, $1.50 ea.). As in the popular Bolero, Ravel again demonstrates his mastery of Spanish exotics...