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Ballets – Collaborations

January 4, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

The two collaborative ballets from the 1920s, L’eventail de Jeanne and Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel, are available in performances by Geoffrey Simon and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Chandos 8356, recorded 1984). L’eventail de Jeanne was written in 1927 as a ballet for the young pupils of patron Jeanne Dubost. Each of L’eventail’s ten movements is by a different composer, including three […]

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Filed Under: Ballet Scores, Milhaud on CD Tagged With: Ades 14. 146-2, Arthur Honegger, Chandos 8356, Francis Poulenc, Geoffrey Simon, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre, Jean Cocteau, L'eventail de Jeanne, Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel

Ballets – La création du monde

January 4, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

La création du monde, the 1923 jazz ballet for eighteen instruments (originally performed with sets by Fernand Léger) is, of all Milhaud’s works, the one with the firmest footing in the repertoire. Of the numerous available recordings the oldest is a 1932 performance conducted by the composer (Pearl Gemm CD 9459). Needless to say, this […]

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Filed Under: Ballet Scores, Milhaud on CD Tagged With: Arabesque Z6569, Arthur Bloom, Arthur Honegger, Arthur Weisberg, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Elektra/Nonesuch 71281-2, EMI CDM 7 63945 2, Fernand Léger, Fred Sherry, Georges Prêtre, Gilbert Kalish, Henri Dutilleux, Ian Hobson, La création du monde, Le loup, Les biches, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Pearl Gemm CD 9459, RCA (Gold Seal 60685-2), Sinfonia da Camera, Suite provençale

Ballets – L’homme et son désir

January 4, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

L’homme et son désir was composed in Brazil in 1917-18, during Milhaud’s tenure as secretary to Paul Claudel. Inspired by the tropical surroundings, and by a visit from Nijinsky, it has a steamy, almost hallucinatory quality, enhanced by the vocalises of Claudel’s “poème plastique” for vocal quartet. The first of Milhaud’s ballets, L’homme et son désir marked the […]

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Filed Under: Ballet Scores, Milhaud on CD Tagged With: Audrey Parr, Ballets Suèdois de Rolf de Maré, Ensemble Roger Désormière, L'homme et son désir, Nijinsky, Paul Claudel, The Classical Collector

Le Boeuf sur le toit

January 4, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

Milhaud’s great early ballet, Le boeuf sur le toit (1919, scenario by Cocteau), is one of his most protean pieces, with different dissonances and rhythms emerging in each recording. On a Leonard Bernstein recording with the Orchestre National de France (EMI CDC-7 47845 2), the sound is very sleek and glitzy, like a good pops orchestra or Broadway […]

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Filed Under: Ballet Scores, Milhaud on CD Tagged With: Chandos 9023, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Edouard Exerjean, EMI CDC-7 47845 2, Hyperion CDA66594, Jean Wiener, Le boeuf sur le toit, Leonard Bernstein, Libor Pesek, Orchestre National de France, Philippe Corre, Pierre Verany PV 786 091, René Bénédetti, Ronald Corp, Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier

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