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Le boeuf sur le toit

Ten Best Recordings of Milhaud’s Music

January 8, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

With dozens of Milhaud discs to choose from, a “10 Best” list will help shorten the casual listener’s shopping list. Elektra/Nonesuch 9 71316-2 piano music played by William Bolcom. ADDA 581292 vocal music directed by Bernard Desgraupes. Hyperion CDA66594 Le boeuf sur le toit and other works directed by Ronald Corp. Chant du Monde LDC […]

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Filed Under: Milhaud on CD Tagged With: ADDA 581292, Adès 13.284-2, ARCAM 590143, Bernard Desgraupes, Catalogue de fleur, Chant du Monde LDC 278 1069, Classical Collector 150 122, Darius Milhaud, Elektra/Nonesuch 71281-2, Elektra/Nonesuch 9 71316-2, Hyperion CDA66594, La création du monde, Le boeuf sur le toit, Le pauvre matelot, Les malheurs d'Orphée, Ronald Corp, Sénart, Serge Baudo, Service Sacré, Suite provençale, William Bolcom

Orchestral Works – Arrangements

January 8, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

We have no recordings of the Chansons de l’opéra du gueux, Milhaud’s 1937 settings for solo voice and instruments of songs from Pepusch and Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, but two new discs bear excellent performances of his version for small orchestra, Carnaval de Londres. Unlike Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera and its resultant orchestral suite, Milhaud’s 26 […]

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Filed Under: Milhaud on CD, Orchestral Works Tagged With: Baptiste Anet, Beggar's Opera, Capella Cracoviensis, Carnaval de Londres, Chansons de l'opéra du gueux, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, L'apothéose de Molière, Le boeuf sur le toit, Saudades do Brasil, Threepenny Opera, Trois rag caprices

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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