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Milhaud - Orchestral Works | Brilliant Classics 9007

Milhaud - Orchestral Works

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9007

Barcode: 5029365900720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 16th February 2009

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Contents

Artists

Michel Beroff (piano)
Noel Lee (piano)
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Christian Ivaldi (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Georges Pretre

Works

Milhaud, Darius

La Creation du Monde, op.81
Le Boeuf sur le toit, op.58
Le Carnaval d'Aix, op.83b
Paris, op.284
Saudades do Brasil, op.67 (extracts)
Suite francaise, op.248
Suite provencale, op.152d

Artists

Michel Beroff (piano)
Noel Lee (piano)
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Christian Ivaldi (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Georges Pretre

About

An essential collection of Milhaud, containing his best known works for orchestra and for piano.

Darius Milhaud was born in Provence in 1892, but soon gravitated to ‘the other France’ - Paris - where he became a member of ‘Les Six’. The artist, playwright, poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau was at the centre of this group of composers – Poulenc, Honegger, Auric, Durey, Tailleferre and Milhaud.

Rejecting Impressionism, Milhaud concentrated on developing a sound world that was transparent, melodic and generally joyous and humorous in character. Being Provençal, he had been raised free from the intellectual agonising of his Paris-born colleagues. He was not one for weighty intellectual arguments. Above all, he was a master craftsman, prolific, and almost never made sketches of his works.

With dazzling scoring, humour and sophistication that would come to typify French culture during the Second World War and after, Milhaud was a true one-off, and captured the spirit of his county and adoptive city brilliantly in music.

Contents:
CD 1
- La Creation du monde Op.81a
- Saudades do Brasil Op.67: No.7 Corcovado / No.9 Sumare / No.8 Tijuca / No.11 Larenjeiras
- Le Boeuf sur le toit Op.58
Orchestre National de France / Leonard Bernstein

CD 2
- Scaramouche
- Le Bal Martiniquais pour Orchestre (with Noel Lee & Christian Ivaldi, pianos)
- Paris Op.284 (with Noel Lee, Michel Béroff, Jean-Philippe Collard & Christian Ivaldi, pianos)
- Le Carnaval d’Aix Op.83b (with Michel Béroff, piano)
- Suite francaise Op.248
- Suite provencale Op.152b
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Georges Prêtre

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