April 30, 1902: The premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande |
Darkest hour |
Essence of Spain... |
Fair competitor gives Percy Grainger some Brigg ideas |
First spin |
From boos and hisses to widespread popularity |
Gaspard de la nuit, Maurice Ravel |
Heady & the hedonistic |
Hero worship |
Mahler makes his hotly anticipated New York debut |
Opera to die for |
Pelleas und Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg |
Rachmaninov's romantic second |
Richard Strauss's Symphonia domestica |
Schoenberg's Gurrelieder |
Soul to soul |
Swooping and soaring: Delius's "veritable drama of love and death" |
Symphonia domestica, Richard Strauss |
Symphony No. 1, Edward Elgar |
Symphony No. 2, "The four temperaments", Carl Nielsen |
This Dream comes to spectacular fruiton |
Tosca, Giacomo Puccini |
World's vastness |