{"title":"Desi Halban","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pasc780","title":"WALTER Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Boston, 1947) - PASC780","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWAGNER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAHLER\u003c\/b\u003e Symphony No. 4 in G major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive ABC broadcasts, 18 and 25 March 1947\u003cbr\u003eSymphony Hall, Boston; Metropolitan Theatre, Providence\u003cbr\u003eTotal duration: 73:43 (1 CD)\u003cbr\u003eAmbient Stereo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesi Halban\u003c\/b\u003e, soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003econducted by \u003cb\u003eBruno Walter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eRadio introductions by Gene Hamilton\u003cbr\u003eXR remastering and Ambient Stereo restoration by Andrew Rose\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC780.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eBruno Walter’s Boston appearances in 1947 renewed an association interrupted for almost a quarter of a century. He had first conducted the orchestra in March 1923, during his initial American visit. Returning from his first post-war European tour in January 1947, he resumed the relationship as a guest, with Serge Koussevitzky still the orchestra’s music director. Further engagements followed in March. These recordings preserve Wagner from Symphony Hall, Boston, on 18 March, and Mahler from the Metropolitan Theatre, Providence, on 25 March: two consecutive Tuesday broadcasts in the orchestra’s ABC series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eAt seventy, Walter represented a living connection with Mahler rather than merely an established interpretative tradition. He had joined Mahler’s Hamburg opera staff in 1894 and followed him to Vienna in 1901. Their professional association developed into an enduring friendship; after Mahler’s death, Walter conducted the world premières of \u003ci\u003eDas Lied von der Erde\u003c\/i\u003e and the Ninth Symphony. His advocacy helped sustain music which had not yet achieved its present central place in concert life. For Walter, these scores preserved the personality of a man he had known and loved. The Boston Symphony had first performed the complete Fourth only in March 1945, under Richard Burgin. Walter’s return therefore brought unusual personal authority to a score still relatively unfamiliar to the orchestra’s audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eWagner’s \u003ci\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/i\u003e offers an appropriately intimate beginning. Written as a birthday gift for Cosima, it was first performed on the staircase of their home at Tribschen on Christmas morning, 1870. Its title celebrates their young son as well as the operatic hero, and several themes are shared with the opera \u003ci\u003eSiegfried\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet this is no condensed dramatic synopsis: the music transforms heroic associations into domestic affection, weaving its melodies into a continuous, tender conversation. Its original chamber proportions remain audible even when the strings are enlarged for concert performance. Here Wagner’s capacity for tenderness takes precedence over theatrical grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eMahler’s Fourth Symphony similarly conceals considerable sophistication beneath an apparently simple surface. Composed principally in 1899 and 1900, it grew backwards from its finale, the song \u003ci\u003eDas himmlische Leben\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1892 to a poem from \u003ci\u003eDes Knaben Wunderhorn\u003c\/i\u003e. Mahler had considered including the song in his Third Symphony before making it the destination of the Fourth. A child’s description of heaven thus governs an entire symphonic journey. The relatively modest orchestra, without trombones or tuba, and the lucid four-movement design suggest classical restraint, but innocence here is never entirely secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThe opening sleigh bells introduce a world of grace and easy melody which can turn unexpectedly strange. In the scherzo, a solo violin tuned a whole tone higher than usual becomes an uncanny fiddler, its brittle sound set against more reassuring dances. The slow movement unfolds through variations of extraordinary serenity, disturbed by sorrow and finally illuminated by a radiant outburst. Only then does the soprano reveal the promised heavenly life. Saints prepare abundant food, earthly cares disappear and celestial music surpasses anything heard below. Yet the poem’s casually slaughtered animals shadow its happiness: this paradise retains the unsettling logic of a fairy tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThe soprano Desi Halban brought another connection with Mahler’s Vienna. Born there in 1912, she was the daughter of the celebrated soprano Selma Kurz, whom Mahler had recruited to the Court Opera. Halban made her concert debut in Vienna in 1934 and her operatic debut in Budapest the following year. War drove her through Holland and England to the United States, where she arrived in 1943. By 1947 she had sung the Fourth with Walter in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, and had partnered him in the 1945 New York recording for Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eContemporary Boston criticism offers valuable testimony to these March performances. Cyrus Durgin of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Daily Globe\u003c\/i\u003e stressed Walter’s exceptional understanding of Mahler’s idiom. Alexander Williams, in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, praised Halban for singing “simply, gracefully and clearly”. Warren Storey Smith of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Post\u003c\/i\u003e, although inclined to recommend cuts, found “quiet intensity” and “almost unbearable sweetness” in the slow movement, and recorded cheers at the conclusion. These were responses to a concert series, not retrospective tributes to a legend. They capture the immediate effect of Walter’s advocacy while Mahler’s place in the repertory was still being won.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout this remastering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThis new Ambient Stereo XR restoration draws on a notably clear transcription of the original broadcasts. Approximately seven seconds of music absent from the principal Mahler source have been restored from a separate transcription of the same 25 March 1947 performance. The original radio introductions have been retained as separate tracks. 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He had first conducted the orchestra in March 1923, during his initial American visit. Returning from his first post-war European tour in January 1947, he resumed the relationship as a guest, with Serge Koussevitzky still the orchestra’s music director. Further engagements followed in March. These recordings preserve Wagner from Symphony Hall, Boston, on 18 March, and Mahler from the Metropolitan Theatre, Providence, on 25 March: two consecutive Tuesday broadcasts in the orchestra’s ABC series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eAt seventy, Walter represented a living connection with Mahler rather than merely an established interpretative tradition. He had joined Mahler’s Hamburg opera staff in 1894 and followed him to Vienna in 1901. Their professional association developed into an enduring friendship; after Mahler’s death, Walter conducted the world premières of \u003ci\u003eDas Lied von der Erde\u003c\/i\u003e and the Ninth Symphony. His advocacy helped sustain music which had not yet achieved its present central place in concert life. For Walter, these scores preserved the personality of a man he had known and loved. The Boston Symphony had first performed the complete Fourth only in March 1945, under Richard Burgin. Walter’s return therefore brought unusual personal authority to a score still relatively unfamiliar to the orchestra’s audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eWagner’s \u003ci\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/i\u003e offers an appropriately intimate beginning. Written as a birthday gift for Cosima, it was first performed on the staircase of their home at Tribschen on Christmas morning, 1870. Its title celebrates their young son as well as the operatic hero, and several themes are shared with the opera \u003ci\u003eSiegfried\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet this is no condensed dramatic synopsis: the music transforms heroic associations into domestic affection, weaving its melodies into a continuous, tender conversation. Its original chamber proportions remain audible even when the strings are enlarged for concert performance. Here Wagner’s capacity for tenderness takes precedence over theatrical grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eMahler’s Fourth Symphony similarly conceals considerable sophistication beneath an apparently simple surface. Composed principally in 1899 and 1900, it grew backwards from its finale, the song \u003ci\u003eDas himmlische Leben\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1892 to a poem from \u003ci\u003eDes Knaben Wunderhorn\u003c\/i\u003e. Mahler had considered including the song in his Third Symphony before making it the destination of the Fourth. A child’s description of heaven thus governs an entire symphonic journey. The relatively modest orchestra, without trombones or tuba, and the lucid four-movement design suggest classical restraint, but innocence here is never entirely secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThe opening sleigh bells introduce a world of grace and easy melody which can turn unexpectedly strange. In the scherzo, a solo violin tuned a whole tone higher than usual becomes an uncanny fiddler, its brittle sound set against more reassuring dances. The slow movement unfolds through variations of extraordinary serenity, disturbed by sorrow and finally illuminated by a radiant outburst. Only then does the soprano reveal the promised heavenly life. Saints prepare abundant food, earthly cares disappear and celestial music surpasses anything heard below. Yet the poem’s casually slaughtered animals shadow its happiness: this paradise retains the unsettling logic of a fairy tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThe soprano Desi Halban brought another connection with Mahler’s Vienna. Born there in 1912, she was the daughter of the celebrated soprano Selma Kurz, whom Mahler had recruited to the Court Opera. Halban made her concert debut in Vienna in 1934 and her operatic debut in Budapest the following year. War drove her through Holland and England to the United States, where she arrived in 1943. By 1947 she had sung the Fourth with Walter in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, and had partnered him in the 1945 New York recording for Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eContemporary Boston criticism offers valuable testimony to these March performances. Cyrus Durgin of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Daily Globe\u003c\/i\u003e stressed Walter’s exceptional understanding of Mahler’s idiom. Alexander Williams, in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, praised Halban for singing “simply, gracefully and clearly”. Warren Storey Smith of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Post\u003c\/i\u003e, although inclined to recommend cuts, found “quiet intensity” and “almost unbearable sweetness” in the slow movement, and recorded cheers at the conclusion. These were responses to a concert series, not retrospective tributes to a legend. They capture the immediate effect of Walter’s advocacy while Mahler’s place in the repertory was still being won.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout this remastering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003eThis new Ambient Stereo XR restoration draws on a notably clear transcription of the original broadcasts. Approximately seven seconds of music absent from the principal Mahler source have been restored from a separate transcription of the same 25 March 1947 performance. The original radio introductions have been retained as separate tracks. 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