Musicians of the Scarab Club Chamber Music Series talk about preparing and performing Florent Schmitt’s Quartet Pour presque tous les temps (1956).

On October 7, 2018, Detroit’s Scarab Club Chamber Music Series launched its 21st season with a performance of Florent Schmitt’s quartet Pour presque tous les temps, Op. 134 (“Quartet for Almost All the Time”), a late-career work for flute, violin, cello and piano created by Schmitt in 1956 when the composer was 86 years old. […]

Freshness and vitality win the day: An award-winning performance of Florent Schmitt’s 1956 quartet Pour presque tous les temps at the 2014 NZCT Chamber Music Contest in New Zealand.

September 1, 2014 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Chamber Music, Chamber Music New Zealand, Classical Music, Doric String Quartet, Ensemble Martinu, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, NZCT Chamber Music Contest, Pour presque tous les temps, Rangitoto College, Schmitt, Schmitten | Leave a comment

One of the most charming late works of Florent Schmitt is his quartet for flute, violin, cello and piano he titled Pour presque tous les temps, Opus 134 (“Quartet for Almost All the Time”). Composed in 1956 for the Quatuor Instrumental de Paris, this four-movement work lasts barely 12 minutes, but is one of the most engaging pieces […]

Elegance and Class: Florent Schmitt’s Quartet Pour presque tous les temps (1956)

November 18, 2013 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Chamber Music New Zealand, Classical Music, Ensemble Martinu, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, L'Arje Ensemble, Nicolas Southon, NZCT Chamber Music Contest, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Wissmer, Pour presque tous les temps, Quartet, Quartet for the End of Time, Quartets, Quatuor Instrumental de Paris, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Scarab Club Chamber Music Series, Schmitt, Schmitten | Leave a comment

One of the final works created by the French composer Florent Schmitt was a quartet he titled Pour presque tous les temps. It is one of the last numbered compositions in Schmitt’s entire output (#134 out of a total of 138 opus numbers) and was completed in 1956, two years before the composer’s death. Schmitt was known […]