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La Tragédie de Salomé is Florent Schmiitt’s most popular and frequently recorded work, yet it has proven curiously elusive to capture on disc. To date,
Have you ever wondered what the point was in all that nineteenth-century screaming about colorful orchestration being inappropriate to symphonic discourse? You know what I
It may be pseudo-oriental fluff, but it’s opulent, decadent pseudo-oriental
This splendid box contains all of Jean Martinon’s late recordings
There have been several new recordings of Schmitt’s most famous
Florent Schmitt really, really liked Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. He
It’s remarkable how no recent recording of this music comes within hailing distance of Jean Martinon’s classic EMI recording. This one isn’t bad, but Yan
You really wanted to root for this disc: a fun coupling, real French (well, Canadian) artists, a nice mix of familiar and less familiar–it should
The theme of this collection, “women of the orient,” may be cute, and a showcase for this Turkish orchestra, but the selection of pieces doesn’t
This enterprising series has been compromised since inception by heavy-handed, so-so interpretation from conductor Sylvain Cambreling. Petrushka is inexcusably slow and dull, especially in the
