The Grand Piano label announces the release of a specially priced 4-CD set of Florent Schmitt’s complete original works for piano duet and duo (1899-1916) performed by the Invencia Piano Duo.

Available in mid-January 2017, the boxed set includes all 14 compositions first released in 2012-13 … now at a special price of four CDs for the price of two. Several years ago, the Grand Piano label issued a series of four CDs that together make up the complete original works for piano duet and duo by […]

Florent Schmitt Goes to Germany: Reflets d’Allemagne (1902-05).

January 10, 2016 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music, Piano Four-Hand Music, Piano Music | tagged Allison Cullen, Berlioz, Chabrier, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Debussy, Desire Inghelbrecht, Edward Rushton, Elie Cohen, Faure, Florent Schmitt, Kenneth Fuchs, Lalo, Louis Laloy, Massenet, Miravia Duo, Piano Duet, Piano Duo, Piano Music, Prix de Rome, Ravel, Reflections of Germany, Reflets, Reflets d'Allemagne, Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Blot, Satie, Schmitt, Tony Aubin | 2 Comments

For music-lovers who aren’t very familiar with the music of Florent Schmitt, they may well think that the composer is German. Or at the very least, they might assume that the music bears a strong resemblance to Germanic musical style. Of course, for those who know Schmitt and his artistry, they realize that any “German” musical influence falls well-behind French influence […]

Brilliance and Sophistication: Florent Schmitt’s Trois Rapsodies for Two Pianos (1903-04)

April 14, 2014 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Piano Four-Hand Music, Piano Music | tagged Alfred De Veto, Alfred Hertz, Andrey Kasparov, Arthur Loesser, Bartlett & Robertson, Beryl Rubinstein, Camille Chevillard, Casadesus, Charles Burr, Classical Music, Dr. William Mason, Ellsworth Grumman, Emil Oberhoffer, Florent Schmitt, Forgotten Records, Francaise, Frank Cooper, French Composers, Gaby Casadesus, Georges Longy, Gunnar Johansen, H. Stanley Knight, Igor Kipnis, Invencia Piano Duo, Jacques Lacombe, Jacques Mercier, JoAnn Falletta, Josef Stransky, Leopold Stokowski, Les Apaches, Leslie De'Ath, Lionel Bringuier, Martin Marks, Marvine Maazel, Nadya Gordon, Nathaniel Shilkret, Nones, Orchestre Lamoureux, Ossip Grabrilowitsch, Paul Paray, Piano Duo, Piano Music, Polonaise, Rhapsodie Parisienne, Schmitt, Stephane Deneve, Steven Gordon, Trois Rapsodies, Viennoise | 2 Comments

One of the most satisfying of Florent Schmitt’s extensive trove of music for piano duet and duo – and the one that is my personal favorite of all of them – is Trois Rapsodies, Op. 53, a work he composed in 1903-4. Made up of three movements titled Française, Polonaise and Viennoise, it is a work that fully engages […]