Alain Altinoglu
The French-Armenian maestro Alain Altinoglu, along with several other younger-generation conductors, have been traveling the globe in recent years performing Florent Schmitt’s ballet score La Tragédie de Salomé.
Conductors Stéphane Denève and Yannick Nézet-Séguin have both performed the score in Canada and France, while Lionel Bringuier has brought the Salomé to Los Angeles, Sweden, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom.
In Maestro Altinoglu’s case, he’s been performing it across France and also conducted it with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2012 – the first time the music had appeared on the CSO’s concert programs since the days of Désiré Defauw in the 1940s.
Désiré Defauw
Recently, I discovered that Maestro Altinloglu’s May 16, 2012 live performance with L’Orchestre de Paris is available online. You can catch it here.
While perhaps not quite as polished as the impressive live performance I was privileged to see with Stéphane Denève conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in March 2011, the Altinloglu/OdP rendition is still an effective interpretation that’s well-worth hearing.
Stéphane Denève
… And for those who have never had the opportunity to hear this music performed with the “emotional immediacy” that a live public performance delivers so well, here’s a grand opportunity to do so.
