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 professional artistic group, the site covers nearly all of the major orchestras, opera and ballet companies and other important ensembles around the world, making it the “go-to” resource for information about what’s happening on the concert calendar.
The 2017/18 season is now coming into focus – and yet even at this early date we see that seven important compositions by Florent Schmitt will be presented by orchestras in Bern, Cleveland, Cluj, Guanajuato, London, Lyon, Milwaukee and Paris conducted by Frank Braley, Lionel Bringuier, Jonathan Darlington, Fabien Gabel, Daniel Myssyk, Sakari Oramo, Gottfried Rabl and Mario Venzago.
Here are details on the concerts, plus links to more information about the performances and ticket reservations:
August 19, 2017
Schmitt: Le Palais hanté, Op. 49 (1900-04)
Debussy: Ibéria
Prokoviev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10
Ravel: Boléro
The Cleveland Orchestra, Fabien Gabel, conductor
Juho Pohjonen, pianist
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September 29, 2017
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 (1907/10)
Castro: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 22
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Myssyk, conductor
Luis Herman, pianist
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October 18-19, 2017
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 (1907/10)
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64b
Ravel: Boléro
Orchestre de Paris, Jonathan Darlington, conductor
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October 19, 2017
Schmitt: ‘Janiana’ Symphony for Strings, Op. 101 (1941)
Faure: Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (piano duo version)
Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major for Piano & Orchestra, K. 488
Roussel: Le Marchand de sable qui passe, Op. 13
Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Frank Braley, conductor
Jean-Philippe Collard and Frank Braley, pianists
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October 27, 2017
Schmitt: Symphony No. 2, Op. 137 (1957)
Franck: Symphonic Variations
Ravel: Piano Concerto in D Major for the Left-Hand
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 52
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, conductor
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pianist
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November 16, 2017
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 (1907/10)
Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture
Ravel: Concerto in G Major for Piano & Orchestra
Orchestre National de Lyon, Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Nicholas Angelich, pianist
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January 1-2, 2018
Schmitt: Rapsodie viennoise, Op. 53, No. 3 (1904/11)
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Gluck: Armide, Suite from the Opera
Paganini: Variazioni de bravura
Ravel: La Valse
Bern Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, conductor
Maximilian Hornung, cellist
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January 26-27, 2018
Schmitt: Rêves, Op. 65 (1915)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Bernstein: Fancy Free
Ravel: La Valse
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Gabel, conductor
Louis Schwizgebel, pianist
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February 2, 2018
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 (1907/10)
Liadov: Fragments from the Apocalypse, Op. 66
Nielsen: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 33
Nielsen: Maskarade Overture
Transylvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Gottfried Rabl, conductor
Anna Agafia Egholm, violinist
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June 9-10, 2018
Schmitt: Antoine et Cléopâtre, Suite No. 2, Op. 69b (1920)
Debussy: Khamma
D’Indy: Istar
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Roussel: Padmâvatî, Suite No. 2
Orchestre de Paris, Fabien Gabel, conductor
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
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More information on these upcoming concerts can be found here on the Bachtrack site, or on the web pages of the six orchestras (click or tap on the orchestra names above).
In the coming weeks, it is likely that additional orchestral concerts featuring Florent Schmitt’s will be announced. They will be added to the listing above as soon as the information becomes available.