Members of the Prisma String Trio talk about preparing, performing and recording Florent Schmitt’s endlessly fascinating Trio à cordes (1944).

It was a dream come true for the three Prisma musicians, who prepared for nearly a decade before venturing into the recording hall to document their interpretation of Florent Schmitt’s stunning creation: “a string trio with sextet ambitions.” “It’s everything about human life: It’s about happiness, it’s about madness, it’s about freedom. All of it […]

Just Announced: Prisma String Trio to make a new recording of Florent Schmitt’s extraordinary Trio a cordes (1944).

June 8, 2020 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, French Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Darius Milhaud, Elisabeth Smalt, Florent Schmitt, Janneke van Prooijen, Michiel Weidner, Performers Music Production Fund, Prisma Strijktrio, Prisma String Trio, Schmitt, SEMA, Shellackophile, String Trio, Tom Peeters | 3 Comments

It will be just the third time the work has been commercially recorded — and the first one in more than three decades. Among French composer Florent Schmitt’s extensive chamber music creations are a string trio and string quartet that he composed during the waning days of World War II and immediately following. It was […]

Musicologist and Author Nicolas Southon talks about his new book profiling orchestral works by 16 Francophone composers including Florent Schmitt.

September 22, 2016 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged A French Touch, Alberic Magnard, Albert Roussel, Andre Jolivet, Antoine et Cleopatre, Arthur Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Charles Munch, Daniel-Lesur, Darius Milhaud, Durand, Eschig, Florent Schmitt, Gabriel Pierne, Henri Dutilleux, Jean Cras, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Llil Boulanger, Louis Aubert, Nicolas Southon, Olivier Messiaen, Paul Dukas, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Rediscovering a Uniquely French Symphonic Repertoire, Sakari Oramo, Salabert, Stephane Deneve, Tragedie de Salome, Universal Publishing | Leave a comment

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 Group) released a book titled A French Touch: Rediscovering a Uniquely French Symphonic Repertoire. Researched and written by French musicologist and author Nicolas Southon, the slender volume (44 pages long) […]