Pianist Biljana Urban talks about her new recording featuring world premiere renditions of works by Florent Schmitt.

September 13, 2021 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, French Composers, Piano Music | tagged Aldo Ciccolini, Angeline Pondepeyre, Annie d'Arco, Ballade de la neige, Biljana Urban, Cortot, Crepuscules, Daniel Schorno, Exilarte Centre, Gerald Hugon, Grand Piano, Ivo Kaltchev, Jan Urban, Jan Vorisek, Jean Gabin, Laurent Wagschal, Leon-Paul Fargue, Michael Haas, Nadia Boulanger, NAXOS, Pascal le Corre, Prelude Triste, Pupazzi, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Ritournelle, Scriabin, TivoliVredenburg, Tom Peeters, Toon de Zoeten, Trivoli Vredenburg, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Vorisek | 1 Comment

Five premiere recordings are part of the new collection devoted to the solo piano music of the composer, scheduled for release in October 2021 on NAXOS’s Grand Piano label. Over his long career, French composer Florent Schmitt created many piano compositions — a body of work spanning more than a half-century from the early 1890s […]

Members of the Prisma String Trio talk about preparing, performing and recording Florent Schmitt’s endlessly fascinating Trio à cordes (1944).

April 16, 2021 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Albert Roussel Trio, Arnold Schoenberg, Bob Gilmore, Cobra Records, Darius Milhaud, Elisabeth Smalt, Florent Schmitt, Huis Midwoud, Janneke van Prooijen, John McLaughlin Williams, La Muse Menagere, Les Apaches, Michiel Weidner, Pasquier Trio, PRISMA, Prisma String Trio, Schiedam, Schmitt, Splendor Amsterdam, String Trio, Tom Peeters, Trio a cordes, WestVest90 | 1 Comment

It was a dream come true for the three Prisma musicians, who prepared for nearly a decade before venturing into the recording hall to document their interpretation of Florent Schmitt’s stunning creation: “a string trio with sextet ambitions.” “It’s everything about human life: It’s about happiness, it’s about madness, it’s about freedom. All of it […]

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 […]