June Records

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

SYMPHONIC, ETC.

Art Songs, Volume I (Povla Frijsh, soprano, with Celius Dougherty, pianist; Victor: 6 sides). Lieder fans care more about metaphysical oomph than vocal zing. Stately Danish Soprano Frijsh has no great zing but has sung with liederhh oomph for more than 20 years.

Bach: Wedding Cantata (No. 202) (Elisabeth Schumann, soprano, with instrumental ensemble directed by Harpsichordist Yella Pessl; Victor: 6 sides). First complete recording of a Bachian orange blossom, made for some happy burgher now forgotten.

Tschaikowsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). Least cloying, best recorded version of the symphony from which last year's popular Moon Love was lifted.

Old World Ballads in America (Andrew Rowan Summers,baritone; Columbia: 8 sides). A furriner to the hillbillies whose songs he has studied. Virginian Summers twangs a dulcimer, sings more agreeably than Kentuckian John Jacob Niles, his competitor on Victor records.

Dvorak: Symphony No. 2 in D Minor (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Vaclav Talich conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Bouncing Czech rhythms, recorded for the first time.

Lamar Stringfield: Moods of a Moonshiner Composer Stringfield. flutist, with string quartet; Royale: 4 sides). Sound-pictures by a North Carolinian: "At a Still." "On the Cliff," "A Moonshiner Laughs."

POPULAR

Fools Rush In (Mildred Bailey; Columbia). Composer Johnny Mercer's senti-melody-of-the-month.

The Breeze and I (Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). Spic-and-Spanish adaptation of Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia, ably sung by Bob Eberly.

Cherry.(Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers; Decca). Five colored notables give a swing classic a hot spade flush.

Naughty Nineties (Columbia). Four-disc album of songs like Oceana Roll and Don't Go Into the Lion's Cage Tonight, which sound funny enough, as rendered by Radio Singer Beatrice Kay, sung straight.

Louisiana Purchase. Evergreen Composer Irving Berlin's surpassing new score is ably recorded for Victor, notably the chant Louisiana Purchase (Hal Kemp), the ballad You're Lonely and I'm Lonely (Tommy Dorsey).

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