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 […]