A conductor who spent most of his career in tiny Luxembourg is hardly a musician one would expect to become well known, but Louis de Froment grew extremely familiar to record collectors thanks to his long association with the Vox label. Born in Toulouse, he studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he won first prize in conducting in 1948. After graduation, Froment conducted one of the French radio orchestras and, from 1950 to 1954, served asRead more music director at the casinos in Cannes, Deauville, and Vichy. He developed a higher profile through work as a guest conductor with a number of European orchestras and appearances at French music festivals. In 1958 he was named conductor of the Luxembourg Radio Orchestra, with which he embarked on an extensive series of recordings for the budget label Vox. Most often he served as accompanist in surveys of the concertos of such composers as Arensky, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovsky. He and his orchestra were the main attraction in some projects, though, including the orchestral music of Debussy. Froment's performances with his orchestra, if not tonally sleek, tended to be idiomatic and well attuned to the needs of soloists. Froment retired from the orchestra in 1981. Read less
Label: Brilliant Classics
Catalog: 93980
Release Date: 09/27/2011
Number of Discs: 60
Composer:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Maurice Gendron,
Alexander Rudin,
Rod Elms,
Natalia Erasova
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Conductor:
Vladimir Fedoseyev,
Ernest Ansermet,
Nikolai Alexeev,
Yuri Simonov
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Suisse Romande Orchestra,
Musica Viva Instrumental Ensemble
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Label: Vox Box
Catalog: 3032
Release Date: 03/23/2010
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Claude Debussy,
Gabriel Fauré,
Camille Saint-Saëns,
Maurice Ravel
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Performer:
Grant Johannesen
Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Bernhard Kontarsky
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
Label: Gala
Catalog: GL100744
Release Date: 02/23/2010
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Richard Strauss
Performer:
Michel Dens,
Jean Giraudeau,
Mado Robin,
Irene Sicot
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Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Gustav Cloëz
Label: Profil
Catalog: 9021
Release Date: 10/27/2009
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Christoph W. Gluck
Performer:
Nicolai Gedda,
Liliane Berton,
Janine Micheau
Conductor:
Louis de Froment
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
Label: Vox Allegretto
Catalog: 8159
Release Date: 09/18/2008
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Claude Debussy
Performer:
Maria Teresa Escribano
Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Friedrich Cerha
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
Die Reihe Ensemble
Label: Erato
Catalog: 4509936022
Release Date: 03/11/2008
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Marc-Antoine Charpentier,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Giuseppe Verdi,
Jean-Baptiste ". Arban
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Performer:
Jean-Claude Meignam,
Maurice André,
Guy Touvron,
Joel Pontet
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Conductor:
Louis Martini,
Jean-François Paillard,
Jörg Faerber,
Theodor Guschlbauer
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Label: Gift Of Music
Catalog: 1190
Release Date: 01/01/2008
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Giuseppe Verdi,
Johann Strauss Jr.,
Edvard Grieg,
Claude Debussy
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Performer:
James Gregory,
Martin Souter,
Alfred Brendel,
Juan Perez
Conductor:
Marko Munih,
Christian Rainer,
Libor Pesek,
Louis de Froment
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Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
François Couperin,
Antonio Vivaldi
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Performer:
Jean-Pierre Rampal,
Robert Veyron-Lacroix,
Bernard Gavoty
Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Roland Douatte
Orchestra/Ensemble:
French National Radio Orchestra,
Paris Collegium Musicum
Label: Doremi Records
Catalog: 7857
Release Date: 04/10/2007
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Johannes Brahms,
Camille Saint-Saëns,
Frédéric Chopin
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Performer:
Monique de la Bruchollerie
Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Rolf Reinhardt,
Rudolf Moralt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra
Label: Vox Allegretto
Catalog: 8049
Release Date: 03/22/2006
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Carl Maria von Weber,
Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Heinrich Hollreiser,
Jonel Perlea
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Label: Vox Box
Catalog: 3611
Release Date: 10/18/2005
Number of Discs: 5
Composer:
Johannes Brahms,
Franz von Vecsey,
Giuseppe Tartini,
Frédéric Chopin
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Performer:
Giorgio Ricci,
Ruggiero Ricci,
Louis Persinger
Conductor:
Kurt Masur,
Louis de Froment,
Matthias Kuntsch
Orchestra/Ensemble:
New Philharmonia Orchestra,
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
Bochum Symphony Orchestra
Label: Vox Allegretto
Catalog: ACD 8208
Release Date: 09/01/2003
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Robert Schumann,
Felix Mendelssohn,
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Rudolf Firkusny
Conductor:
Louis de Froment
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
Label: Emi Classics Special Import
Catalog: 75266
Release Date: 02/04/2003
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
André Modeste Grétry
Performer:
Janine Micheau,
Michel Roux,
Nicolai Gedda,
Michel Trempont
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Conductor:
Louis de Froment,
Edgar Doneux
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Raymond St. Paul Chorus,
Louis de Froment Chamber Ensemble,
Belgian Radio and Television Chamber Orchestra
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Label: Vox Allegretto
Catalog: 8219
Release Date: 04/30/2002
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Camille Saint-Saëns,
Benjamin Britten,
Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
Marylène Dosse,
Annie Petit,
Brandon De Wilde
Conductor:
Jörg Faerber,
Hans Swarowsky,
Louis de Froment
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra,
Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra,
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
Label: Vox Da Capo
Catalog: 7211
Release Date: 11/23/1999
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Felix Mendelssohn,
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Anton Arensky
Performer:
Aaron Rosand
Conductor:
Louis de Froment
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
Label: Vox Box
Catalog: 3000
Release Date: 09/29/1998
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
Laszlo Varga,
Ruggiero Ricci,
Gabriel Tacchino
Conductor:
Louis de Froment
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
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Label: Vox Box
Catalog: 5114
Release Date: 08/30/1997
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Emmanuel Chabrier,
Jean Françaix,
Gabriel Fauré,
Jules Massenet
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Performer:
Ulrich Koch,
Suzanne Lautenbacher
Conductor:
Pierre Cao,
Jean Françaix,
Louis de Froment,
Richard Kapp
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
Philharmonia Hungarica
Label: Vox Cameo Classics
Catalog: 8841
Release Date: 07/01/1997
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Johann Strauss Jr.,
Maurice Ravel,
Charles Gounod,
Heitor Villa-Lobos
...
Performer:
Manuel Barrueco
Conductor:
Carl Michalski,
Peter Falk,
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,
Alfred Scholz
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra,
Minnesota Orchestra,
London Symphony Orchestra
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Label: Vox Cameo Classics
Catalog: 8842
Release Date: 07/01/1997
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Felix Mendelssohn,
Sergei Rachmaninov
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Performer:
Alfred Brendel,
Aaron Rosand,
Abbey Simon,
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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Conductor:
Zubin Mehta,
Louis de Froment,
Leonard Slatkin,
Bernard Thomas
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Vienna Symphony Orchestra,
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra,
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
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Label: Vox Cameo Classics
Catalog: 8843
Release Date: 07/01/1997
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Johannes Brahms,
Camille Saint-Saëns
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Conductor:
Anton Nanut,
Alberto Lizzio,
Maurice Abravanel,
Jascha Horenstein
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra,
Ljubljana Radio Symphony Orchestra,
London Festival Orchestra
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Label: Vox Classics
Catalog: 5098
Release Date: 12/12/1994
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Franz Liszt,
Joseph Joachim Raff,
Robert Schumann,
Charles Valentin Alkan
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Performer:
Michael Ponti,
Jerome Rose,
Roland Keller
Conductor:
V. Schmidt-Gertenbach,
Richard Kapp,
Louis de Froment,
Paul Angerer
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin Symphony Orchestra,
Hamburg Symphony Orchestra,
Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra
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