Music: July Records

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Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy.

SYMPHONIC, ETC.

Bach: Partita No. 6 in E Minor (Walte Giesekmg, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides) Beautifully sculptured; best piano record mg of the month.

Liszt: Fantasia on Beethoven's Ruin ot Athens (Egon Petri, pianist, with th London Philharmonic under Leslie He ward; Columbia, 3 sides). First recording of one of the numerous eggs which Liszt a musical cuckoo, laid in alien nests.

Strauss: Viennese Music (Vienna Choi Boys; Victor, 8 sides). Choral arrangements of waltzes, operetta songs, a polka a march; by three Strausses; amusingly chirruped by Vienna's touring youngsters.

Schumann: Duets (Lotte Lehmann soprano, Lauritz Melchior, tenor with orchestra; Victor, 4 sides). Top-notch singing of first-class Schwärmerei. One duet, a charming Germanization of Robert Burns's Wha Is That at My Bower Door?, would bring down any house.

Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor, 8 sides). First modern recording of a work not frequently played which nonetheless stands up alongside the Schubert Eighth ("Unfinished") and Seventh ("Of Heavenly Lengths") symphonies.

Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat Major (Salomon No. 4) (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Another first recording, competently performed.

Mozart: Trios in E Major and C Major (Kurt Appelbaum, piano, Roman Totenberg, violin, Fritz Magg, cello; Musicraft 8 sides). Both first recordings, limpidly played; the second, one of Mozart's finest.

POPULAR

Guess I'll Go Back Home (Glenn Miller; Bluebird). Able new band of able old trombonist plays Willard Robison's (Old Folks) newest nostalgia.

All I Remember Is You (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Schmaltz-of-the-month.

Pickin' for Patsy (Jack Teagarden-Brunswick). Heart-lifting guitar work by Allen Reuss.

Comes Love (Artie Shaw; Bluebird) Most tuneful version of the most tuneful number of Yokel Boy, new Lew Brown musical.

Bing Crosby (The Lion and Sa Gomes Rhythm Boys; Decca). Having celebrated Franklin Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor and the late Graf Zeppelin, Trinidad's Calypso singers turn to a famed U. S. colleague. Professional appraisal:

Love Thy Neighbor was his most thrilling song and "Git along little dogies git along."