The most comprehensive collection of historic Milhaud performances to date is The Classical Collector (150 122) (Archives Sonores de la Phonotèque Nationale). This three-CD set includes most of the recordings made by Milhaud and his best friends and interpreters in Paris and Brussels between 1928 and 1948, transfered to digital sound and admirably restored. Though […]
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More Song Cycles
Soprano Carole Farley and pianist John Constable perform three Milhaud song cycles on a new ASV disc (CDA 810). Alissa, Poèmes juifs and l’amour chante date from 1913, 1916 and 1964, respectively, and give listeners a broad picture of Milhaud’s development in this genre. Alissa was adapted from André Gide’s La porte étroite, a dense […]
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