“A forlorn sky, a low horizon and the slow, monotonous falling of snow”: Florent Schmitt’s Ballade de la neige (1896).

May 1, 2024 · by Phillip Nones | in Piano Music | tagged Alfred Cortot, Ballade de la neige, Biljana Urban, Christian Bobin, Florent Schmitt, Gabriel Faure, Jacques Bonnaure, Juliette Toutain, Maurice Hinson, Pierre Carrive, Schmitt, The Sky Over Berlin, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire | 2 Comments

In 2021, the NAXOS label’s Grand Piano imprint issued a CD featuring solo piano music of Florent Schmitt performed by Biljana Urban. This Paris-trained pianist. now living in Amsterdam, has a particular appreciation for the piano music of French composers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – Florent Schmitt included. (Click here to […]