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Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome & Chant elegiaque
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Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome & Chant elegiaque

Romantic Dramatic Exotic Dark Virtuosic
$20.99

Details

Composer
Florent Schmitt
Artist
Alain Altinoglu
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
May 17, 2024
Catalog #
ALPHA941
UPC
3760014199417

About

In 1907, Florent Schmitt composed music to accompany a ‘mimodrame’ danced by Loïe Fuller, La Tragédie de Salomé. His score is bursting with colour, energy, and voluptuousness – and also with oriental influences stemming from his travels to Morocco and Constantinople, where he discovered the howling dervishes. The final scene features the heart-rending ‘Chant d’Aïça’, an oriental melody sung by a soprano. This music, though bold and modern for the listeners of 1907, nonetheless aroused the admiration of another composer, Igor Stravinsky, to whom Schmitt dedicated the Symphonic Suite he subsequently derived from the work. However, Alain Altinoglu, at the helm of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra of which he has been Music Director since 2021, has chosen to record the original version of this landmark of early twentieth-century French music. The beautiful Chant élégiaque, in its 1911 version for cello and large orchestra, completes this programme.

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 Prélude 10:58
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prélude
    Duration
    10:58
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  2. 2 Deuxième tableau 06:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    Deuxième tableau
    Duration
    06:34
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  3. 3 Troisième tableau 01:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Troisième tableau
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  4. 4 Vif 03:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    Vif
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  5. 5 Prélude au quatrième tableau 02:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    Prélude au quatrième tableau
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  6. 6 Danse du paon 00:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Danse du paon
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  7. 7 Danse du paon (proprement dite) 04:39
    Track
    7
    Title
    Danse du paon (proprement dite)
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  8. 8 Prélude au cinquième tableau 03:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prélude au cinquième tableau
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  9. 9 Danse des serpents 00:51
    Track
    9
    Title
    Danse des serpents
    Duration
    00:51
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  10. 10 Danse des serpents (proprement dite) 04:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    Danse des serpents (proprement dite)
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  11. 11 Prélude au sixième tableau 01:09
    Track
    11
    Title
    Prélude au sixième tableau
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  12. 12 Les enchantements sur la mer 05:06
    Track
    12
    Title
    Les enchantements sur la mer
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  13. 13 Animé 00:55
    Track
    13
    Title
    Animé
    Duration
    00:55
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  14. 14 Danse de l'acier 01:32
    Track
    14
    Title
    Danse de l'acier
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  15. 15 Animé 00:50
    Track
    15
    Title
    Animé
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  16. 16 Lent mais chaleureux et soutenu 02:54
    Track
    16
    Title
    Lent mais chaleureux et soutenu
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  17. 17 Animé 01:11
    Track
    17
    Title
    Animé
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  18. 18 Vif (Mouvement de la Danse Joyeuse) 01:08
    Track
    18
    Title
    Vif (Mouvement de la Danse Joyeuse)
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  19. 19 Chant d'Aïea 02:23
    Track
    19
    Title
    Chant d'Aïea
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Performer
    Ambur Braid
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  20. 20 Danse blanche 01:09
    Track
    20
    Title
    Danse blanche
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  21. 21 Très lent 02:54
    Track
    21
    Title
    Très lent
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  22. 22 Danse de l'effroi 01:58
    Track
    22
    Title
    Danse de l'effroi
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu
  23. 23 Chant élégiaque, Op. 24 06:56
    Track
    23
    Title
    Chant élégiaque, Op. 24
    Duration
    06:56
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Performer
    Peter-Philipp Staemmler
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
    Conductor
    Alain Altinoglu