Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 47 (1904) in concert: An eyewitness report from Houston (September 2025).

October 1, 2025 · by Phillip Nones | in Choral Music, French Composers, Vocal Music | tagged Angel Blue, Brinton Smith, Florent Schmitt, Houston Chamber Choir, Houston Symphony, Houston Symphony Chorus, Igor Stravinsky, Juraj Valcuha, Psalm 47, Psalm XLVII, Psaume 47, Psaume XLVII, Steven Kruger | 1 Comment

Fanfare Magazine music critic Steven Kruger shares his reaction to the first U.S. staging of the Psaume since 2019. For the Houston Symphony’s 2025-26 season-opening weekend of concerts, music director Juraj Valčuha elected to include Florent Schmitt’s monumental Psaume XLVII, Op. 38, in which the orchestra was joined by the Houston Symphony Chorus, the Houston […]

The 2025-26 concert season features eight orchestral works by Florent Schmitt to be performed in Houston, Jena, Las Palmas, Palermo, St. Mary’s City, San José, Stockholm, Tokyo and Vienna.

June 25, 2025 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Chamber Music, Choral Music | tagged Angel Blue, Claire Levacher, Ensemble Knotrapunkte, Florent Schmitt, Gottfried Rabl, Houston Symphony, Ivan Meylemans, Jason Klein, Jena Philharmonic, Juraj Valcuha, Lied et Scherzo, Psalm 47, Psaume XLVII, Ryan Bancroft, Simon Gaudenz, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, Tomoya Nakahara, Tragedie de Salome | Leave a comment

For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2025-26 concert season will include symphonic works that cover a wide swath of the composer’s career, with eight compositions created over a 50-year period from 1890 to 1941. In addition to two acknowledged “big hits” (La Tragédie de Salomé and Psaume XLVII), the featured repertoire includes several […]

Five Florent Schmitt orchestral works are featured in the new 2024-25 season of concerts in Antwerp, Bratislava, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Haifa, Montréal, Valladolid and Wellington.

July 1, 2024 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Chamber Music, Classical Music, French Composers | tagged Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt, Gottfried Rabl, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Hakan Hardenberger, Jacques Lacombe, Julien Masmondet, Juraj Valcuha, Lio Kuokman, Marc Taddei, Marie Perbost, Orchestra Wellington, Orchestre Classique de Montreal, Orchestre symphonie de Montreal, Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon, Schmitt, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Selina Ott, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, The Tudor Consort | 1 Comment

In addition to multiple presentations of Schmitt’s best-known composition La Tragédie de Salomé, music-lovers will be treated to several works from the composer’s early and late career. For the upcoming 2024-25 concert season, the popularity of Florent Schmitt’s ballet La Tragédie de Salomé (1907-10) continues on its upward trajectory — a trend that sees no […]