Discovering Max d’Ollone’s Lost Choral Works

This week on the ACDA Network Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt, on Going Beyond Words, takes you back to a broadcast that he did on February 10, 2013. You will be introduced some lost choral music by French Romantic Composer Max d’Ollone and how he was involved with the Prix de Rome Prize that was initiated in 1666 but did not admit musicians until 1803. Many fine composers such as Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy and Ravel composed altogether hundreds of works, most which are yet to be discovered. The Prix de Rome competition gave d’llone the opportunity to composer several empressive cantatas and pieces for chorus and orchestra characterized by a combination of grandure and refinement. His music that you will be introduced should move you to investigate this wonderful CD and the Book (not booklet) that explains all of these creations. Singing some of the d’Ollone’s selections is the reviered Flemish Radio Choir with help from the Brussels Philharmonic….. Other composers on this journey are Henry Dumont, Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré with well known choirs such as the Ensemble Dumont, The Netherlands Chamber Choir under Eric Ericson. The 16 with Harry Christophers and John Rutter the Cambridge Singers. Let me know what you think….

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 1918