Christian Schmitt: Les Eolides & Grande Piece Symphonique - La nuit de Walpurgis - COMPACT DISCS

Christian Schmitt: Les Eolides & Grande Piece Symphonique - La nuit de Walpurgis - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Les Eolides & Grande Piece Symphonique - La nuit de Walpurgis

Artist:

Christian Schmitt

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761203563227

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-01-30

Number of Discs:

1

Anyone who entitles an organ piece a Grand Pièce Symphonique should not be surprised if this very title one day is used as a benchmark to determine the legitimacy of this claimed attribute. This is exactly what the organist, composer, and pedagogue Zsigmond Szathmáry did at the behest of his young colleague Christian Schmitt when he examined the orchestral possibilities of César Franck's "great symphonic work".The result of this exploration gives us the world premiere of a concert piece in which the king of instruments and it's personified registers - i.e. The orchestra - form a captivating synthesis.Next to Franck's well-known tone poem Les Éolides (The Daughters of Aeolus), the programme includes a rarely recorded work by Charles-Marie Widor - a Walpurgis Night that easily rivals the most famous witches' dances in the Romantic literature.

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