Florent Schmitt: Piano Quintet, A Tour D'anches / Berlin Soloists

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
April 26, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHMITT, FLORENT
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Solisten Ensemble Berlin
    • PERFORMER
      Wollenweber
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 26, 2011
    • UPC
      747313048977
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8570489
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lent et grave - Anime

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

      Performer: Birgitta Wollenweber

    2. II. Lent

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

      Performer: Birgitta Wollenweber

    3. III. Anime

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

      Performer: Birgitta Wollenweber

    4. I. A courre

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

    5. II. Sur un rythme prevu

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

    6. III. Nocturne - Sarabande

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble

    7. IV. Quasimodo

      Composer: Florent Schmitt

      Ensemble: Berlin Soloists Ensemble


Compared by contemporaries to Ravel and Debussy, French composer Florent Schmitt is being rediscovered today. Following his death, one critic mourned that “French music has just lost a smile and a master”. The whimsical and sparkling À tour d’anches for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano and the dramatically beautiful Piano Quintet reveal a powerful and distinctive personality. By turns lyrical, humorous and fiery, these two chamber works span a period of almost forty years, from the beginning of Schmitt’s mature period to his late style.