Leaving Home Orchestral music in the 20th century 1, 7: Dancing On A Volcano ( Peter West, 1996) VOSE

The first episode in the series describes a great musical culture in decline in turnofthenineteenthcentury Vienna. From that decline erupted a musical revolution whose reverberations have continued to this day. The names of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg still strike terror into the hearts of many concertgoers, but with Simon Rattle we hear in this music s brooding power not only the collapse of the old AustroGerman order and the rise of Facism, but also the portents of the music to come in the second half of the twentieth century. Excerpts from: WAGNER: Ouverture to Tristan und Isolde; SCHOENBERG: Verklaerte Nacht; MAHLER: Symphony No. 7; R. STRAUSS: Elektra; SCHOENBERG: Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16, No. 2; BERG: Violinkonzert; WEBERN: Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 (Nos. 3, 4, 5)