Florent Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé

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There are quite a few versions of La tragédie de Salomé available, but none more refined and silky than this one. The Buffalo Philharmonic is a polished orchestra and has a wonderful satin feel... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

Release Date: 13th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: 8574138
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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November 2020

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Schmitt, F: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50

Work length26:35

$6.00

$7.70

$10.50

Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Women's Choir of Buffalo
JoAnn Falletta

Pt. 1

Track length12:56

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Pt. 2

Track length13:39

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Schmitt, F: Musique sur l'eau

Work length5:49

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta

Schmitt, F: Oriane et le Prince d'Amour

Work length17:49

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta

Schmitt, F: Légende, Op. 66

Work length10:21

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Nikki Chooi (violin)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta

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Florent Schmitt was a student of Massenet and Fauré, and winner of the coveted Prix de Rome. His impressionistic style blends influences ranging from Debussy to Wagner, with references to Stravinsky and other contemporaries. Conceived as a ballet but revised as a symphonic poem, La Tragédie de Salomé depicts Salomes dangerous seductiveness with subtle magnificence. Narrative symbolism also applies to the evocative word painting of the exquisite Musique sur leau. The perilous saga of Oriane et le Prince dAmour contrasts with the poetic tapestry of orchestral colours in Légende, in a version that replaces the original solo saxophone with violin.

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Jan/Feb 2021

There are quite a few versions of La tragédie de Salomé available, but none more refined and silky than this one. The Buffalo Philharmonic is a polished orchestra and has a wonderful satin feel for French music. The smooth acoustic of Kleinhans Hall and Naxos’s customary transparency do the rest.

February 2021

There’s no shortage of recordings of [La tragédie de Salomé], including excellent versions by Jean Martinon and Yan Pascal Tortelier, but Falletta’s version communicates the atmosphere, luxuriousness and power of Schmitt's score as well as any..The solo part [of the Légende] is performed by the Buffalo Philharmonic’s concertmaster Nikki Chooi with total conviction and assurance. Altogether a most desirable release.

November 2020

The Buffalo players sound terrific in Schmitt’s two large-scale ‘Orientalist’ ballet suites, with a fabulously glossy proto-Hollywood sheen to the strings and some especially characterful playing from the cor anglais and trumpets; Falletta is mindful of both works’ origins in dance, and achieves a lovely shimmering transparency in passages that could easily seem overblown.

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