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F. Schmitt: Music for Two Pianos / Leslie De'Ath, Anya Alexeyev

2 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2011-09-13

Works: Florent Schmitt: Le petit elfe "Ferme-l'oeil" - Une semaine dansée, for voice & piano, 4 hands, Op. 73; Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; Reflets d'Allemagne, waltzes (8) for pian...
Performers: Alexeyev, Anya; De'Ath, Leslie

Florent Schmitt's output includes some of the most impressive and influential orchestral music of the first two decades of the twentieth century. Not surprisingly, these...continue...
Recording information: Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Faculty of Music, Wilfr (2010-12-17&2011-02-22&2011-)....continue...

Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome; Le Palais Hante / Tortelier

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2011-06-28

Works: Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; Le Palais Hanté, Op. 49; Psaume 47, Op. 38
Performers: Bullock, Susan
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: San Paulo Symphony Orchestra

A well known critic and composer during his lifetime, following his death, Florence Schmitt's compositions fell into neglect. Through the talents of the São Paulo...continue...
Recording information: Sala Sao Paulo, Júlio Prestes Cultural Center, Sao Paul (07/05/2010-07/09/2010)....continue...

Florent Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé; Symphonie en Ré / Nézet-Séguin

1 CD / ATMA / 2011-02-22

Works: Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; César Franck: Symphony in D minor, M 48
Conductors: Nézet-Séguin, Yannick

Under the baton of star conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Orchestre Métropolitain performs the rarely-recorded symphonic poem La tragédie de Salomé by French compo...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Ferdinand, Laval (Quebec) Canada (07/2010)....continue...

Florent Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé; Ombres; Miarges

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-02-22

Works: Florent Schmitt: Ombres, for piano, Op. 64; Mirages for piano, Op. 70; La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 bis
Performers: Larderet, Vincent [Piano]

Naxos presents the world premiere recording of Florence Schmitt's The Tragedy of Salome, praised by Igor Stravinsky as 'one of the greatest masterpieces in modern...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (07/08/2009-07/10/2009)....continue...

The Composers Conduct

2 CD / Widescreen / 2010-11-05

Works: Maurice Ravel: Boléro; Concerto for Piano in G major; Albert Roussel: Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17; Le jardin mouillé, for voice & piano, Op. 3/3; Invocation, for mezzo-so...
Performers: Croiza, Claire; Long, Marguerite; Roussel, Albert
Conductors: Ravel, Maurice; Roussel, Albert; Schmitt, Florent; Elgar, Edward, Sir

Respighi: Belkis, Queen Of Sheba

1 CD / Onyx Classics / 2010-03-09

Works: Ottorino Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, ballet, P. 171; Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis; Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50
Conductors: Goetzel, Sascha

Onyx Classics presents the debut recording by the remarkable Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and their young Austrian music director Sascha Goetzel, with a disc of...continue...
Recording information: Borusan Oto, Istinye, Istanbul, Turkey (05/24/2009-05/29/2009)....continue...

Ravel conducts Boléro and other French composers conduct

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2009-03-10

Works: Henri Tomasi: Tam-Tam, symphonic poem for chorus, soloists & orchestra; Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; Philippe Gaubert: Les chants de la mer, trois tableaux sympho...
Conductors: Tomasi, Henri; Schmitt, Florent; Gaubert, Philippe; Ravel, Maurice
Ensemble: ; Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra

This release marks a further installment in Dutton's ongoing series of composers conducting their own works. Maurice Ravel is heard conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra in...continue...

Composers in Person

22 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Béla Bartók: Bagatelles (14) for Piano, Op. 6/Sz 38; Easy Pieces (10) for Piano, Sz 39; Romanian Dances (2) for Piano, Op. 8a/Sz 43; A Bit Drunk (Kicsit ázottan), burlesque for piano n...
Performers: Barrientos, Maria; Bartók, Béla; Benbow, Edwin; Benedetti, Fernand; Bernac, Pierre; Bonneau, Georges; Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Britten, Benjamin; Cahuzac, Louis; Charmy, Roland; Cro...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Hindemith, Paul; Khachaturian, Aram; Honegger, Arthur; Straram, Walther; Elgar, Edward, Sir; Coppola, Piero; Glazunov, Alexander; Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Pfitzner, Hans; Milhaud, ...
Ensemble: ; Percurama Percussion Ensemble

These 22 CDs offer a stunning range of modern composers performing their own works either on the piano, organ or violin, or else from behind...continue...

Les ballets Russes Vol 3 - Debussy, Schmitt, Stravinsky / Cambreling, Southwest German RSO, et al

1 CD / Hanssler Classic / 2008-10-17

Works: Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes fo...
Conductors: Cambreling, Sylvain
Ensemble: Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart

The latest release in the Ballets Russes series includes two of the most popular scores ever commissioned for the dance in the 20th century -...continue...

Schmitt: Psaume XLVII, etc / Fischer, Buffle, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-07-10

Works: Florent Schmitt: Psaume 47, Op. 38; Suite sans espirit de suite, for piano, Op. 89; Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50
Performers: Buffle, Christine; Humphries, Charles; Walker, Jennifer
Conductors: Fischer, Thierry
Ensemble: BBC National Chorus of Wales

"the magnificent engineering really counts in this brilliant but also very heavily scored music. The BBC National Orchestra plays with plenty of power; the strings...continue...

Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, etc / Sweet, Janowski, et al

1 CD / Apex / 2006-08-15

Works: Florent Schmitt: Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50; Psaume 47, Op. 38
Performers: Comentale, Guy; Gil, Jean-Louis; Prat, Jacques; Sweet, Sharon
Conductors: Janowski, Marek
Ensemble: ; French National Radio Chorus; French National Radio Orchestra

"Janowski turns the first movement of Salome into an atmospheric, impressionist marvel that has pointed direction and a rousing climax Psalm 47 is a big,...continue...