Spanish flautist Roberto Casado talks about Florent Schmitt’s Sonatine en Trio and Suite en rocaille – and their place in French Impressionistic music.

January 20, 2014 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Uncategorized | tagged Clarinet, Classical Music, Conservatorio Vitoria-Gasteiz, Corradina Mola, Emmanuel Pahud, Florent Schmitt, Flute, French Composers, Impressionism, Marcel Tournier, Nones, Quinteto Tournier, Roberto Casado, Schmitt, Sonatine en Trio, Suite en rocaille, Tournier Quintet | Leave a comment

The Spanish flautist and chamber musician Roberto Casado discovered the music of Florent Schmitt as part of a quest to find new repertoire pieces in the French Impressionist tradition. His goal was to find scores that weren’t derivative, but instead contained interesting touches that distinguished them from the well-known works of Ravel and Debussy. This mission […]

Florent Schmitt and the Flute (Scherzo-Pastorale; Quatuor; Suite en trois parties)

January 10, 2014 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Classical Music, Deb Baron, Faure, Florent Schmitt, Flute, Flute Force, Flute Music, French Composers, Gaubert, Hanna Bryleva, Jacques Ibert, James Strauss, Kathryn Thomas, Marsyas Flute Quartet, Nones, Peter Ader, Peter Bacchus, Quartet for Flutes, Ravel, Richard Shaw, Richard Strauss, Rie Schmidt, Schmitt, Victoria Yanushkevich | 3 Comments

For a composer who wrote many pages of chamber and instrumental music featuring nearly every instrument of the orchestra, Florent Schmitt’s compositions featuring the flute are comparative few. This may seem surprising for a musician who actually played the flute in several military musical ensembles during World War I. Nevertheless, I count only three such works in the Schmitt […]

World premiere recording of Florent Schmitt’s Suite for Flute & Orchestra, dedicated to the great Jean-Pierre Rampal (1954).

September 9, 2012 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Classical Music, Florent Schmitt, Flute, Flute Music, James Strauss, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Laercio Diniz, Milhaud, Music, Rampal, Schmitt, Villa-Lobos | 3 Comments

Welcome news in that Florent Schmitt’s Suite for Flute & Orchestra, Opus 129, is receiving its world premiere recording by flautist James Strauss, with Laercio Diniz conducting the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. The Suite was composed in 1954 when Schmitt was 84 years old. It was dedicated to the great French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal — […]