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 […]

Fascinating, complex sonorities: Florent Schmitt’s String Trio (1944).

January 16, 2018 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Antoine Golea, Arnold Schoenberg, Atlantic Trio, Caerus Chamber Ensemble, Chamber Music, Clare Finnimore, Elisabeth Smalt, Eruditio Musica, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Harry Partch, Janneke van Prooijen, Jean Cras, John McLaughlin Williams, Jonian Ilias Kadesh, Marijn Bisschops, Michiel Weidner, Music at Tresanton, Oxalys, Pasquier Trio, Prisma Strijktrio, Prisma String Trio, Rene Dumesnil, Riku Fukuda, Roland de Cande, Schmitt, Shellackophile, Splendor Amsterdam, String Trio, Vashti Mimosa Hunter | Leave a comment

“So dense, so many notes, so many double-stops. So hard to play in tune together, so tricky to balance and to make it sound natural. But what special notes they are!” — Michiel Weidner, Prisma String Trio In the latter part of his career, the French composer Florent Schmitt turned his attention to musical […]