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The Classical Collector

The Classical Collector

January 8, 2021 by Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt

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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Filed Under: Milhaud on CD, Vocal Works Tagged With: Jane Bathori, Les soirées de Pétrograd, Martial Singher, Paul Claudel, Poèmes juifs, Quatre chansons populaires hébraiques, René Chalupt, The Classical Collector

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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