Performer: Chœur de Radio France

Outstanding performances of two Florent Schmitt scores anchor a winning concert by the Orchestre National de France at the Maison de la Radio. 

At the basic level Tristan und Isolde is an opera of hormones, not happenings; fathoms deeper it explores human experience at a point where sense is dumb and flesh retires – as close to heaven and hell as it’s possible to go without first having to die.

Les occasions d’entendre les Gurrelieder d’Arnold Schönberg ne sont pas si fréquentes.