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...Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces—Commander of the British Empire...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Charles L. Wagner Production, with Hilde Reggiani, Bruno Landi, Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
Gretchaninoff: Cradle Song; Moussorgsky: Within Four Walls (Paul Robeson, baritone; Columbia). The famed Negro's deep baritone at its best. Curiously the Moussorgsky is sung half in English, half in Russian (which Russophile Robeson speaks fluently...
...evening, and the sunburn on his face had brought back a partly forgotten feeling of well-being as he had lain on the ground gazing up through the trees. When it had gotten dark, the firelight and the singing had flickered through the woods together. The others had sung unconcernedly, as if there were more picnics coming soon. It wasn't the way Vag had expected them to sing on the last of their Concord evenings together...
...those who like dramatic orchestral readings of Bach organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...