French pianist Bruno Belthoise talks about keeping Florent Schmitt’s Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil (1912) part of his performing repertoire over the years.

December 10, 2017 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Piano Four-Hand Music, Piano Music | tagged Adolfo Rascon Carbajal, Antonio Rosado, Bruno Belthoise, CeDeCe, Claude Maillols, Claudio Carneyro, Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt Schmitt, Francesca Todesco, Francisco de Lacerda, French Composers, Hans Christian Andersen, Isadora Duncan, JoAnn Falletta, Joao Costa Ferreira, Julia Levien, Le Petit Elfe, Lisboa-Paris, Luiz Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Reflets d'Allemagne, Saison France-Portugal, Schola Cantorum, Sergio Azevedo, Teresa Valente Pereira, Trio Pangea, Trois Rapsodies, Une semaine due petit elfe Ferme-loeil | Leave a comment

In 2013, one of the earliest interviews I conducted for the Florent Schmitt Website + Blog was with the French pianist Bruno Belthoise. I had discovered him from YouTube, where several movements of Florent Schmitt’s piano four-hand suite Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil, Opus 58 had been uploaded from a performance he gave at the […]