Florent Schmitt: La Tragedie De Salomé/Chant Élégiaque

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.

1: I. Prélude
2: II. Deuxième Tableau
3: III. Troisième Tableau
4: IV. Vif
5: V. Quatrième Tableau
6: VI. Danse Du Paon. Introduction
7: VII. Danse Du Paon. Proprement Dite
8: VIII. Cinquième Tableau
9: IX. Danse Des Serpents. Introduction
10: X. Danse Des Serpents. Proprement Dite
11: XI. Sixième Tableau
12: XII. Les Enchantements Sur La Mer
13: XIII. Animé
14: XIV. Danse De L'acier
15: XV. Animé
16: XVI. Lent Mais Chaleureux Et Soutenu
17: XVII. Animé
18: XVIII. Vif. Mouvement De La Danse Joyeuse
19: XIX. Chant D'Aiea
20: XX. Danse Blanche
21: XXI. Très Lent
22: XXII. Danse De L'effroi
23: Chant Élégiaque, Op. 24

Composer: Florent Schmitt

Conductor: Alain Altinoglu

Number of Discs: 2

Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

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