Beginning a long-term series exploring the works first performed in each year of this century. Natalie Wheen introduces music from 1900, a time of transition. The prevailing mood of fin-de-siècle romanticism was beginning to give way to new currents of thought - the impressionism of Debussy and the shocking social realism of verismo opera.
Scriabin Symphony No 1 (6th mvt) Debussy Nuages (Nocturnes) Faure Two Songs, Op 83
Charpentier Louise (Prelude to Act 3) Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka) Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Tsar Saltan Puccini Tosca (Act 2, excerpt) Producer Philip Tagney
SOUNDING THE CENTURY