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
has been Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt) since 2021 and has since extended his contract until the summer of 2028. He is internationally very successful with his interpretations of the romantic and impressionist repertoire as well as with the contemporary music and classical modernism.

Alain Altinoglu regularly conducts such distinguished orchestras as Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Russian National Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, as well as all the major Parisian orchestras. He has also taken over the artistic direction of the Festival International de Colmar, the largest classical music festival in Alsace, in 2023.

Altinoglu also belongs to the league of internationally highly renowned opera conductors. Since 2016 he has been Music Director of the Brussels »Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie«. He has already conducted premieres at many of the world's leading opera houses. In addition to the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Bavarian State Opera Munich as well as the three Parisian opera houses, he regularly gives guest performances at the festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Orange and Aix-en-Provence.

As a pianist, Alain Altinoglu has a strong affinity for the lied repertoire and performs regularly with mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch. He also makes occasional forays into jazz and improvisation. Numerous CD releases bear witness to his diverse, successful artistic work.

Born in Paris in 1975, the Frenchman with Armenian roots studied at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, where he teaches since then and leads the conducting class since 2014.

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