Word: janssen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: Die Walküre, Duet from Act I, Scene 3; Act III complete (Helen Traubel, soprano; Herbert Janssen, baritone; Emery Darcy, tenor; vocal ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides, LP). Great music sung by great singers. Conductor Rodzinski gives it the pace and force to make it an exciting performance. Recording: excellent...
Hours of Joy. Composer Bloch, small, bald and grey-fringed, stood on the stage in front of Werner Janssen's* Portland Symphony Orchestra and began with a speech. Gesturing and stomping, he explained that America was written for all the people, "not just for the intelligentsia and the snobs." It was the story of America: the soil, the Indians, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, hours of joy, hours of sorrow, the present and the future...
Four American Landscapes (Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 8 sides). Includes music by Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland and Henry F. Gilbert, but chiefly worthwhile for Charles Ives's remarkable, polytonically placid Housatonic at Stockbridge, from his Three Places in New Eng land (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948). Performance and recording: fair...
Berg: Wozzeck (Charlotte Boerner, soprano, with the Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 4 sides). This difficult opera, a kind of Nordic and atonal Carmen, was violently criticized at its Berlin premiere in 1925, was the first work of art to be damned as Kulturbolschewismus by the rising Nazis. These excerpts give only a sketchy idea of the late Alban Berg's score. Performance: good...
Wagner: Act III, Die Walkure (Helen Traubel, Herbert Janssen, Irene Jessner and vocal ensemble from the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). Victor recorded Act I in Vienna, Act II in Berlin. Now Columbia finishes the job. The Met's mighty Brunnhilde comes through a good yo-ho above everyone else. Performance: good...