Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé & Chant élégiaque Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Alain Altinoglu

• Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958): La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50:
• 1 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: I. Prélude 10:58
• 2 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: II. Deuxième tableau 06:34
• 3 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: III. Troisième Tableau 01:18
• 4 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: IV. Vif 03:50
• 5 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: V. Quatrième tableau 02:33
• 6 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: VI. Danse du paon. Introduction 00:53
• 7 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: VII. Danse du paon. Proprement dite 04:39
• 8 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: VIII. Cinquième tableau 03:23
• 9 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: IX. Danse des serpents. Introduction 00:51
• 10 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: X. Danse des serpents. Proprement dite 04:18
• 11 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XI. Sixième tableau 01:09
• 12 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XII. Les enchantements sur la mer 05:06
• 13 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XIII. Animé 00:55
• 14 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XIV. Danse de l’acier 01:32
• 15 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XV. Animé 00:50
• 16 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XVI. Lent mais chaleureux et soutenu 02:54
• 17 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XVII. Animé 01:11
• 18 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XVIII. Vif. Mouvement de la danse joyeuse 01:08
• 19 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XIX. Chant d’Aiea 02:23
• 20 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XX. Danse blanche 01:09
• 21 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XXI. Très lent 02:54
• 22 Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: XXII. Danse de l’effroi 02:04
• Chant élégiaque, Op. 24:
• 23 Schmitt: Chant élégiaque, Op. 24 06:56
• Total Runtime 01:09:28

Info for Schmitt: La Tragédie 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.

Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Alain Altinoglu
is Music Director of Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. Since 2015, he has earned widespread recognition for his extraordinary leadership, inspiring riveting and transcendent opera performances in Brussels. His tenure with hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt commenced from the 2021/22 season.

Alain Altinoglu regularly conducts such distinguished orchestras as Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, as well as all the major Parisian orchestras.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season include conducting the season opening concerts of the Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, and appearing at the Salzburger Festspiele conducting Verdi’s Aida. Altinoglu continues guesting relationships returning to Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre de Paris.

A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, Altinoglu appears at Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House London Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Bayerische Staatsoper München and all three opera houses in Paris. He has also appeared at the festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Orange and Aix-en-Provence.

Alongside his conducting, Altinoglu maintains a strong affinity with the Lied repertoire and regularly performs with mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch. Altinoglu has released audio recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Naïve, Pentatone and Cascavelle. DVD productions of Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Accord), Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer (DG), The Golden Cockerel, Iolanta, The Nutcracker, Pelléas et Mélisande (BelAirClassiques) have also been released to critical acclaim.

Born in Paris, Alain Altinoglu studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he now teaches the conducting class.

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