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In 1907 Florent Schmitt composed music to accompany a 'mimodrame' danced by Loïe Fuller, La Tragedie de Salome. 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'Aïca', 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 elegiaque, in it's 1911 version for cello and large orchestra, completes this programme.
Tracklist:
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Prélude
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Deuxième Tableau
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Troisième Tableau
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Vif
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Quartième Tableau
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse du Paon (Introduction)
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse du Paon (Proprement dite)
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Cinquième Tableau
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse des Serpents (Introduction)
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse des Serpents (Proprement dite)
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Sixième Tableau
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Les enchants sur la mer
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Animé
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse de l'Acier
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Animé
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Lent mais chaleureux et soutenu
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Animé
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Vif (Mouvement de la Danse Joyeuse)
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Chant d'Aïça
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse blanche
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Très lent
- Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50~Danse de l'Effroi
- Chant Élégiaque, Op. 24
UPC: 3760014199417
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 5.17.24
Format: CD
