Relishing the realism. Orchestral music by Alfred Bruneau.
Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of orchestral music by Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934), a composition student of Jules Massenet and one of the most important yet overlooked figures in turn-of-the-century French musical life. Bruneau\u2019s desire for theatrical realism in his operas mirrored the literary aspirations of his friend \xc9mile Zola. Conductor Darrell Ang and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra perform music drawn from two of Bruneau\u2019s operas,\xa0Messidor\xa0and\xa0Na\xefs Micoulin, and his \u2018drame lyrique\u2019\xa0L\u2019Attaque du moulin(The Attack on the Mill).