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2014-02-02 03:41:15
Voluptuous Colors: Florent Schmitt’s Suite for Trumpet (1955)
Over his long composing career, Florent Schmitt wrote numerous concertante pieces showcasing nearly every instrument of the orchestra. As with a good number of other French composers, some of these works were written as examination pieces for students at the Paris Conservatoire . A representative example is Schmitt’s Suite en trois parties for Trumpet & Piano, Op. 133, a work he composed in 1955. Schmitt’s score isn’t the only piece for trumpet composed for students of the Conservatoire; other works composed during the first half of the 20th century included ones by Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, Philippe Gaubert, Olivier Messiaen, Guillaume Balay, André Chailleux, Jeanine Rueff and Theo Charlier. The Trumpet Suite is a late work: It is #133 out of a total of 138 opus numbers in the Schmitt catalogue – written when the composer was in his mid-80s. To my ears, the music bears no indication at […]
2013-05-20 04:37:26
The Marcel Mule Saxophone Quartet Play Music Of Jeanine Rueff - 1958 - Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
The Marcel Mule Saxophone Quartet – the Be-all/End-all in wind groups. Click on the link here for Audio Player: [audio http://pastdaily.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/jeanine-Rueff-concerto-for-saxophones.mp3 ] Back to Paris this week for another installment of French radio performances of the 1950s. This time it’s the music of Jeanine Rueff , who is probably best known as a music educator , with one of her star pupils being Jean-Michel Jarre , of 70s Electronica/Experimental fame, than one of the Women composers in France who was closely associated with music for the Saxophone – although almost completely unknown everywhere else. This week it’s a performance of one of her better known works; the concerto for Saxophones , written in 1956 and performed by one of the ensembles she was most associated with during her career, the Marcel Mule Saxophone Quartet. It’s not entirely clear if this is the world premier recording of this work, or the […]
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