Word: fatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of its career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIC WORKS: FATUM, THE STORM, THE VOYEVODE, THE TEMPEST (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra...
Eliahu Inbal, conductor; Philips; $7.98). The music of Tchaikovsky can hardly be said to have suffered over the years from underexposure. Yet here are four tone poems that most Tchaikovsky buffs will not know. The Storm is windy stuff at best and deserves its obscurity. But Fatum (Fate) and The Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt...