In 2013, one of the earliest interviews I conducted for the Florent Schmitt Website + Blog was with the French pianist Bruno Belthoise. I had discovered him from YouTube, where several movements of Florent Schmitt’s piano four-hand suite Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil, Opus 58 had been uploaded from a performance he gave at the […]
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One of the most intriguing recent projects involving the music of French composer Florent Schmitt is the complete music for two pianos and piano duet, recorded by the Invencia Piano Duo (Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn). These works have been released on the Grand Piano label over the past year, with the final two installments […]
The French pianist Bruno Belthoise has been performing Florent Schmitt’s piano duet composition Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil, Op. 58 since 2006. Not only has he become a champion of the music score, he has also created a special presentation incorporating Schmitt’s music, story line narration and imagery that helps introduce children to the world of […]
