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Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cleopatre & Symphony No. 2 / Oramo, BBC Symphony
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Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cleopatre & Symphony No. 2 / Oramo, BBC Symphony

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Composer
SCHMITT, FLORENT
Artist
Oramo
Format
SACD
Label
Chandos
Released
Mar 16, 2018
Catalog #
CHSA 5200
UPC
095115520024

About

Making his debut on Chandos, Sakari Oramo, who with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this year has championed new and rarely performed works, presents in surround sound the extravagant musical world of Florent Schmitt. The recording follows two exceptional Barbican performances with the same forces, a ‘sensuous and exotic’ Antoine et Cleopatre, according to the Financial Times (2016), and the first performance for nearly a dozen years of Symphony No. 2 (2017). The Second Symphony, the last major work by Schmitt, has nothing valedictory about it: as lavish and rhythmically sophisticated as his earlier music, emphatically bounding in fast passages and supple in slow, it also encompasses all the different musical expressions and styles that he had used over almost eight decades of composing. On the other hand, it is far from being an ‘old man’s piece.’ ‘It is really exuberant- very, very inventive, and incredibly busy for everyone,’ as Sakari Oramo explained in a BBC Radio 3 interview. The symphony is paired with the two orchestral suites from Antoine et Cleopatre, music written for Shakespeare’s play, premiered in 1920 at the Paris Opera, and very rarely recorded since then.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Antoine et Cléopâtre 12:40
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Antoine et Cléopâtre
    Duration
    12:40
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  2. 2 II. Le Camp de Pompée 04:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Le Camp de Pompée
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  3. 3 III. La Bataille d'Actium 06:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. La Bataille d'Actium
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  4. 4 I. Nuit au palais de la Reine 07:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Nuit au palais de la Reine
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  5. 5 II. Orgie et danses 11:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Orgie et danses
    Duration
    11:01
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  6. 6 III. Le tombeau de Cléopâtre 07:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Le tombeau de Cléopâtre
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  7. 7 I. Assez animé 08:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Assez animé
    Duration
    08:05
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  8. 8 II. Lent - sans excès 10:11
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Lent - sans excès
    Duration
    10:11
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo
  9. 9 III. Animé 09:19
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Animé
    Duration
    09:19
    Composer
    Florent Schmitt
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Sakari Oramo