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Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud talks about Florent Schmitt’s choral masterpiece...
“It’s the sensuality — as well as the expressive power borne from Florent Schmitt’s exceptional mastery of massed musical forces and contrasts …” — Jean-Luc Tingaud, French Orchestral and Operatic...
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French conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud, soprano Ewa Biegas and choral director...
Curtain call for the Polish premiere performance of Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 47 in Krakow (February 2016). Pictured (l. to r.): soprano Ewa Biegas, choir director Teresa Majka-Pacanek, conductor...
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In Memoriam: Florent Schmitt’s tribute to his teacher and mentor Gabriel...
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) During his time as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, Florent Schmitt had his share of esteemed teachers including Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois, André Gédalge and Albert...
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Orchestra conductor Roberto Beltrán-Zavala talks about the music of Florent...
Roberto Beltrán-Zavala (Photo: Lorena Alcaraz Minor) In February 2016, the first orchestral music of Florent Schmitt ever to be performed in Mexico was presented by the conductor Roberto...
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Timpani Records announces its newest Florent Schmitt recording project,...
The new recording is scheduled for release in fall 2016. Stéphane Topakian, the founder of Timpani Records. Word has just been received from Stéphane Topakian, head of Timpani Records, that his...
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Is Florent Schmitt’s Antony & Cleopatra (1920) beginning the transition from...
This year, Florent Schmitt’s opulent score will be presented by two leading orchestras — the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony — in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe. A partial listing...
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Members of the Garth Newel Piano Quartet talk about preparing Florent...
The Garth Newel Piano Quartet (Photo: Lee Brauer) In April 2015, the Garth Newel Piano Quartet presented Florent Schmitt’s piano quartet Hasards, Op. 96 as part of a chamber music program of French...
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Julian Columeau, noted French novelist in the Urdu language, talks about the...
“I’ve learned a good deal in terms of structure by listening to classical music — and particularly to music created by a person like Florent Schmitt. In fact, I think that a well-structured text,...
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French Conductor Fabien Gabel talks about Rêves (1915), other compositions of...
Fabien Gabel This month, the French conductor Fabien Gabel revealed his plans to lead the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in a December 2016 performance of Florent Schmitt’s tone picture Rêves, Opus 65...
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A link with history: French composer, teacher and writer Alain Margoni, 81,...
Alain Margoni Here in the year 2016, it is well over a half-century since French composer Florent Schmitt passed away at the age of nearly 90 years. Consequently, the number of musicians who have...
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Three important compositions of Florent Schmitt to be featured in the...
The international Bachtrack website is in the process of uploading its global database of classical music programs for the upcoming season. Although it isn’t an exhaustive listing of every orchestral...
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Canadian saxophonist Louis-Philippe Bonin talks about Florent Schmitt’s...
Louis-Phillipe Bonin Florent Schmitt composed just three works for the saxophone, but all three of them hold a place of prominence in the repertoire. Soloists frequently play the Légende (1918) as well...
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French conductor and wind ensemble specialist Philippe Ferro talks about the...
Philippe Ferro In 2008, 50 years following the death of Florent Schmitt, a recording featuring all of the repertoire written by the French composer for wind ensemble was released on the Corelia label....
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Musicologist and Author Nicolas Southon talks about his new book profiling...
Published in English and French versions, the book is available for viewing and download free of charge. Recently, the music publishing firm Durand-Salabert-Eschig (part of Universal Music Publishing...
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Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s Antony & Cleopatra (1920) in a dramatic...
Grand Interior of the Paris Opéra In 2010, the American conductor JoAnn Falletta resurrected a Florent Schmitt rarity: The Suite No. 1 from the incidental music the composer had written for Andre...
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The Grand Piano label announces the release of a specially priced 4-CD set of...
Available in mid-January 2017, the boxed set includes all 14 compositions first released in 2012-13 … now at a special price of four CDs for the price of two. Several years ago, the Grand Piano label...
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Horn soloist Corbin Wagner talks about performing Lied et scherzo (1910),...
Paul Dukas (1965-1935): Florent Schmitt’s Lied et Scherzo was dedicated to his fellow French composer. One of the most fascinating pieces of music featuring the French horn is Florent Schmitt’s Lied et...
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Bill Barclay, music director of Shakespeare’s Globe, talks about bringing...
Ida Rubinstein (Painting by Antonio de la Gandara, 1913) Florent Schmitt’s incidental music to Antoine et Cléopâtre, Op. 69 is one of the composers most intriguing works – a bright star in the...
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Fête de la lumière: Florent Schmitt’s extravagant showpiece at the Paris...
Fêtes de la lumière at the Paris Exposition, 1937. In 1937, one of the final transnational gatherings held on the European continent before the onset of World War II occurred in the city of Paris. The...
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Organist and music researcher Guillaume Le Dréau talks about French composer...
Guillaume Le Dréau in performance. Guillaume Le Dréau is one of the most multi-faceted musicians I know. A keyboard artist, he is currently the organist at Rennes Cathedral in France — but this...
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