Word: victors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor: 3 volumes, 46 sides). Though issued last spring to record-collectors, the Glyndebourne recording of Mozart's greatest opera waited until this month for its official release. Perfect teamwork and exquisitely styled singing by Baritone John Brownlee and Soprano Louise Helletsgruber help to make it the year's most notable record...
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 10 sides) and Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (London Symphony, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). Of the month's two Brahms symphonies, Weingartner's Fourth is fine enough to supersede all previous recordings. Walter's First is a good, conservative, slightly draggy performance...
Moussorgsky-Cailliet: Pictures at an Exhibition (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Ever since titanic, rum-nosed Russian Composer Moussorgsky wrote an innocent little set of piano pieces called Pictures at an Exhibition, other musicians have been busy dressing it up in fancy and irrelevant orchestrations. Most famous of these is the late Maurice Ravel's, to which Orchestrator Lucien Cailliet's adds little. Performance and sound-reproduction are excellent...
Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens, from Prince Igor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 4 sides). Stokowski at his brilliant best...
...vote units among Georgia's 159 counties, he had won 246 (40 more than needed) to 148 for Mr. Talmadge, 16 for Mr. Camp. Even "President Roosevelt's county" (Meriwether, in which lies Warm Springs) chose George, then Talmadge, ahead of Camp. In upon the victor poured telegrams from Conservative Democrats...