Members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Talk about Preparing Florent Schmitt’s Music for Performance and Recording

March 15, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Anna Mattix, Antoine et Cleopatre, Antony & Cleopatra, BPO, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Classical Music, Copland, Daphnis & Chloe, Debussy, Dukas, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Janz Castelo, JoAnn Falletta, Matthew Bassett, Palais Hante, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Schmitt, Sheherezade, The Haunted Palace, Tim Smith, Tomasi, Travis Hendra, Wagner | Leave a comment

In February and March 2015, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director, JoAnn Falletta, performed and recorded two of Florent Schmitt’s orchestral works: the 1900-04 symphonic etude Le Palais hanté, Opus 49 (The Haunted Palace), inspired by a poem of Edgar Allan Poe; and the two Antoine et Cléopâtre Suites, Opus 69, composed in 1920 […]