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BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo - Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre & Symphony No. 2 (2018) [Hi-Res]

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo - Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre & Symphony No. 2 (2018) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre & Symphony No. 2
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Chandos
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +booklet
  • Total Time: 01:17:55
  • Total Size: 1.2 gb
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Tracklist
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01. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 1, Op. 69a: I. Antoine et Cléopâtre
02. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 1, Op. 69a: II. Le camp de Pompée
03. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 1, Op. 69a, III. Bataille d'Actium
04. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 2, Op. 69b: I. Nuit au palais de la reine
05. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 2, Op. 69b: II. Orgie et danses
06. Antoine et Cléopâtre Suite No. 2, Op. 69b: III. Le tombeau de Cléopâtre
07. Symphony No. 2, Op. 137: I. Assez animé-Moins vite, voire très calme
08. Symphony No. 2, Op. 137: II. Lent sans excès
09. Symphony No. 2, Op. 137: III. Animé-Lent

Making his debut on Chandos, Sakari Oramo, who with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this year has championed new and rarely performed works, presents in surround sound the extravagant musical world of Florent Schmitt. The recording follows two exceptional Barbican performances with the same forces, a ‘sensuous and exotic’ Antoine et Cleopatre, according to the Financial Times (2016), and the first performance for nearly a dozen years of Symphony No. 2 (2017). The Second Symphony, the last major work by Schmitt, has nothing valedictory about it: as lavish and rhythmically sophisticated as his earlier music, emphatically bounding in fast passages and supple in slow, it also encompasses all the different musical expressions and styles that he had used over almost eight decades of composing. On the other hand, it is far from being an ‘old man’s piece.’ ‘It is really exuberant- very, very inventive, and incredibly busy for everyone,’ as Sakari Oramo explained in a BBC Radio 3 interview. The symphony is paired with the two orchestral suites from Antoine et Cleopatre, music written for Shakespeare’s play, premiered in 1920 at the Paris Opera, and very rarely recorded since then.



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