Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Jan 27. Scriabin's highly dramatic symphony The Divine Poem is lavishly orchestrated with an exuberant sense of heroic striving. Riccardo Muti, a masterful Scriabin interpreter, combines this luscious piece with two portraits of the sea: Mendelssohn's illustrative overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and Debussy's lustrous La mer, which captures the sea's moods from mist-shrouded dawn through sun-dappled waves to the fury of a storm.
