Nine important compositions of Florent Schmitt to be featured in the upcoming 2021-22 concert season by orchestras in Avignon, Detroit, Hamburg, Kyoto, La Coruña, Malmö, Metz, Osnabrück, Paris, Rochefort, Saratoga Springs, Tokyo, Toulouse and Urbana.

June 1, 2021 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Andreas Hotz, Cristian Macelaru, David Reiland, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Les Apaches, Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt, Hakan Hardenberger, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Ian Hobson, Julien Masmondet, Legende, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Metz, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra, Psalm 47, Psaume XLVII, Reves, Salammbo, Schmitt, Scott Terrell, Sinfonia da Camera, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, Stephane Deneve, Sylvain Cambreling, Tomoya Nakahara, Tragedie de Salome, Wilson Poffenberger | Leave a comment

In a classical music world finally emerging from the COVID-19 crisis, orchestras are beginning again to program “large orchestra” works that had been embargoed due to social distancing requirements. It bodes well for French composer Florent Schmitt’s big, highly colorful scores. The year 2020 was one of several important anniversaries for classical music composers. The […]

In a concert season upended by COVID-19, Florent Schmitt’s original scoring of La Tragédie de Salomé (1907) gets its moment in the sun at last.

February 1, 2021 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alain Altinoglu, Desire Inghelbrecht, Florent Schmitt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Pierne, Julien Masmondet, La Tragedie de Salome, Les Apaches, Loie Fuller, Natalia Trouhanova, Patrick Davin, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Robert d'Humieres, Ropartz, Schmitt, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, The Tragedy of Salome, Tomoya Nakahara, Tristan Pare-Morin | Leave a comment

The 2020-21 season includes performances of the small-orchestra version in Japan, Germany and France. As is so well-known to music-lovers everywhere, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on concert-going the world over. For too many orchestras and chamber ensembles, the entire 2020-21 season has been a total bust — or at the very least, upended […]

Five Important Compositions of Florent Schmitt to be featured in Concert in Spring 2015 by Orchestras in Berlin, Buffalo, Cleveland, Metz and Tokyo

September 18, 2014 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Choral Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Antoine et Cleopatre, Antony & Cleopatra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, BPO, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Concert Season, Florent Schmitt, Jacques Mercier, JoAnn Falletta, La Tragedie de Salome, Le Palais Hante, Le Petit Elfe Ferme-l'oeil, Lionel Bringuier, Marek Janowski, Psalm 47, Psaume XLVII, Schmitt, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, The Haunted Palace, Tomoya Nakahara | Leave a comment

The Bachtrack website has just completed uploading its global database of programs for the upcoming concert season. Although it isn’t an exhaustive listing of every orchestral group, the site covers nearly all of the major orchestras and other ensembles around the world, making it a good “one-stop” resource for information about what’s happening on the […]