Milhaud also wrote a small body of work for organ. A beautiful Pastorale, dated 1941, is played by Graham Barber on a Priory disc (PRCD 391, 1991) on the Sandtner organ of Villingen Minster. The same work appears on one of the new Praga label Milhaud centenary discs (PR 250 008) in a good 1981 […]
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Piano Works – Scaramouche
The famous piano duo Scaramouche (1937) was arranged from incidental music Milhaud had composed for Molière’s Le médecin volant. In the version Milhaud created for his friends Marcelle Meyer and Ida Jankelevitch, it soon became one of the cornerstones of the piano duo repertoire. On the aforementioned Ian Hobson CD there is an unexciting performance […]
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Milhaud’s piano music displays the same broad stylistic range as the rest of his opus. Especially in the earlier works, the gentle, eccentric Paris of Satie, Fauré and Ravel is audible, although Milhaud’s own robust personality always shines through. This is especially apparent in the brief selections played by Milhaud and his friend Marguerite Long […]
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