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Florent Schmitt

  • Florent Schmitt release balances the familiar with the unknown

    Dec 30th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, Florent Schmitt, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Nikki Chooi, Noteworthy Release, Orchestral music, Susan Platts

    This release mixes Florent Schmitt’s most recorded work –La Tragédie de Salomé — with some receiving their world recording premieres. But it’s all Schmitt, so it’s all good. Maestro JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra do well with late Romantic/early Post Romantic repertoire. Their previous Schmidtt recording of Antoine et Cleopatre was outstanding. As […]

  • Florent Schmitt Symphony No. 2 “busy for everyone”

    Mar 2nd, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC Symphony Orchestra, CD Review, Chandos, Classical music, Florent Schmitt, Orchestral music, SACD, Sakari Oramo

    Florent Schmitt extracted two orchestral suites from his ballet “Antoine et Cléopâtre.” Stylistically, the score bears a strong resemblance to Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” (also from a ballet). The touches of orientalism and sometimes gooey harmonies remind me more of Richard Strauss’ “Salome.” Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony seem to relish the rich texture […]

  • Schmitt – Antoine et Cléopâtre

    Jan 11th, 2016 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florent Schmitt, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Orchestral music, Romantic period

    Up until about 1940, Florent Schmitt was one of most frequently-performed living French composers. Although his music virtually disappeared from the repertoire after the Second World War, recent recordings (like this one) have helped a new generation rediscover this remarkable composer. The two orchestral suites Florent Schmitt extracted from his 1920 musique de scène “Antoine […]

  • Florent Schmitt – Sonate libre

    Aug 12th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Beata Halska, CD Review, Chamber music, Claudio Chaiquin, Contemporary classical, Florent Schmitt, Naxos

    Florent Schmitt was a near-contemporary of Claude Debussy, though he lived much longer. Debussy died before the end of the First World War, while Schmitt lived on through the Second World War as well as the start of the Cold War (he died in 1958). . While their contemporaneous music has some similarites, Schmitt’s music […]

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