Cat No:
CDA67599
Release Date: 01 June 2007
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571175997
Genres: Classical Orchestral
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Description
One of the great exponents of the extroverted, Dionysiac strain in French music, Florent Schmitt’s influences included such riches as the music of Muslim countries, the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, and the Russian nationalist composers. Added to his ear for pungent dissonances and assured technique of orchestration, the result is hugely opulent and extravagant music of fertile and thrilling invention.
La tragedie de Salome is Schmitt’s most famous work, staged by Diaghilev and other choreographers and greatly admired by Stravinsky. An air of sensuality and oriental violence is captured by the composer’s entirely original harmonic writing and unusual rhythmic formations which he groups into pulverizing cumulative ostinati.
Psaume XLVII is a defiantly unecclesiastical treatment of a sacred text, interpreted by Schmitt as a paean of savage triumph sung by an oriental race. It is a piece of grand rhetoric and almost barbaric elan, recorded here by the Anglo-Swiss soprano Christine Buffle and The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales under Thierry Fischer. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Anime
- 2. Un Peu Moins Vite
- 3. Au Mouvement
- 4. Meme Mouvement
- 5. Majeza
- 6. Charmilles
- 7. Pecoree De Calabre
- 8. Threne
- 9. Bronx
- 10. Part I: Prelude
- 11. Danse Des Perles
- 12. Part II: [Introduction]
- 13. Les Enchantements De La Mer
- 14. Danse Des Eclairs
- 15. Danse De L'effroi
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