Milhaud Historic Recordings 1928-1948
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Composer or Director: Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie
Label: EPM Classical Collector
Magazine Review Date: 9/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 224
Mastering:
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Catalogue Number: 150 122
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (Les) Choéphores, Movement: Vocifération funèbre |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Antwerp Caecilia Chorale Antwerp Concerts Orchestra Claire Croiza, Mezzo soprano Darius Milhaud, Composer Louis de Vocht, Conductor |
| (Les) Choéphores, Movement: Libation |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Antwerp Caecilia Chorale Antwerp Concerts Orchestra Claire Croiza, Mezzo soprano Darius Milhaud, Composer Louis de Vocht, Conductor |
| (Les) Choéphores, Movement: Exhortation |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Antwerp Caecilia Chorale Antwerp Concerts Orchestra Claire Croiza, Mezzo soprano Darius Milhaud, Composer Louis de Vocht, Conductor |
| (Les) Choéphores, Movement: Conclusion |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Antwerp Caecilia Chorale Antwerp Concerts Orchestra Claire Croiza, Mezzo soprano Darius Milhaud, Composer Louis de Vocht, Conductor |
| Printemps, Vol. 1 |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano |
| Poèmes Juifs, Movement: Chant de Nourrice |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Piano Darius Milhaud, Composer Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| Poèmes Juifs, Movement: Chant de Résignation |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Piano Darius Milhaud, Composer Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| Poèmes Juifs, Movement: Chant d'Amour |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| (3) Mélodies |
Erik Satie, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Piano Erik Satie, Composer Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| (L') homme et son désir |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Roger) Desormière Ensemble Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Conductor |
| (Les) Soirées de Pétrograd |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| (Le) Boeuf sur le toit, '(The) Bull on the Roof' |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Jean Wiener, Piano René Bénédetti, Violin |
| (3) Poèmes de Jean Cocteau |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano |
| Saudades do Brasil |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano |
| Saudades do Brasil, Movement: Ipanema |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano |
| Saudades do Brasil, Movement: Corcovado |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano |
| Saudades do Brasil, Movement: Sumaré |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Piano Darius Milhaud, Composer |
| (Les) Euménides |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer |
| (La) Création du monde |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer |
| Salade |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer |
| (6) chants populaires hébraïques |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano Martial Singher, Baritone |
| (L')Enlèvement d'Europe |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Conductor Georges Petit, Baritone Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano Jean Hazart, Bass Jean Planel, Tenor Pro Musica Ensemble |
| (L')Abandon d'Ariane |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Conductor Georges Petit, Baritone Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano Jean Planel, Tenor Marthe Brega, Soprano Pro Musica Ensemble |
| (La) Déliverance de Thésée |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Anne Valencin, Soprano Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Conductor Georges Petit, Baritone Jane Bathori, Mezzo soprano Jean Hazart, Bass Jean Planel, Tenor Pro Musica Ensemble |
| (Les) Songes |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer Paris Symphony Orchestra |
| Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer French Radio National Orchestra Marguerite Long, Piano |
| Saudades do Brasil, Movement: Paysandú |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Marguerite Long, Piano |
| (L')automne, Movement: Alfama |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Marguerite Long, Piano |
| (Les) Amours de Ronsard, Movement: La rose |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Camille Rouquetty, Tenor Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Conductor Eliette Schenneberg, Mezzo soprano Pierre Froumenty, Bass Renée Mahé, Soprano |
| (Les) Amours de Ronsard, Movement: L'aubépine |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Camille Rouquetty, Tenor Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer Eliette Schenneberg, Mezzo soprano Pierre Froumenty, Bass Renée Mahé, Soprano |
| (Les) Amours de Ronsard, Movement: Le rossignol |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Camille Rouquetty, Tenor Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer Eliette Schenneberg, Mezzo soprano Pierre Froumenty, Bass Renée Mahé, Soprano |
| Concertino de printemps |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer Yvonne Astruc, Violin |
| Suite provençale |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer French Radio National Orchestra Roger Desormière, Conductor |
| (La) Fête de la musique |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Darius Milhaud, Conductor Darius Milhaud, Composer Elaine Fels, Soprano Eliette Schenneberg, Mezzo soprano Jean Claverie, Baritone Raoul Gourgues, Tenor |
| Scaramouche |
Darius Milhaud, Composer
Darius Milhaud, Composer Darius Milhaud, Piano Marcelle Meyer, Piano |
Author:
This invaluable set was produced by the Phonoteque Nationale to celebrate the birth centenary of a composer who strongly supported France's national sound archive. Three well-filled discs contain most of the available out-of-copyright Milhaud material, plus a 1948 Champrosay recording of the composer conducting his exotic rhythmically complex balletic evocation of man in a nocturnal virgin forest, L'homme et son desir.
Contents are arranged in order of composition, and unless otherwise noted involve the composer as conductor. Extracts from the 23-year-old composer's cantata Les choephores were recorded in 1928–9 by Belgian forces under Louis de Vocht. This pungent, strongly performed music is notable for the narration of Claire Croiza, whose diction is almost as compelling as her mezzo voice. The same chorus and orchestra also perform a brief excerpt from another cantata, Les eumenides.
Milhaud was not a great pianist, but he recorded the first book of Printemps and excerpts from Saudades do Brasil to good effect in 1928–30, and within the same years he accompanied the mezo Jane Bathori in several short song-cycles—Poemes juffs, Les soirees de Petrograd, Trois poemes de Jean Cocteau, plus Satie'sTrois Melodies. Milhaud was not perhaps so effective a song composer as say Poulenc, but his settings are always interesting. Bathori lacks the seductive timbre of Croiza—both were eminent interpreters of contemporary French melodie—yet has a strong vocal personality and her performances are very striking. The composer also accompanies a 1932 recording of Six chants populaires hebraiques sung magnificently by the young baritone Martial Singher. Scaramouche, for two pianos, is deliciously played by Marcelle Meyer and the composer.
Milhaud arranged his ballet Le boeuf sur le toit for violin and piano, although the transcription lacks the original's pungency, even in a lively 1928 performance by Rene Benedetti and Jean Wiener. Milhaud's first recording of La creation du monde, an uncharacteristically cautious reading, is followed by one of two brief recorded excerpts from hisballet-chante, Salade. The three operas-minute were recorded soon after they were first performed in 1928–9, and with some of the original artists. These mini-dramas were written in a compressed time-scale for three or four soloists plus a small chorus and instrumental ensemble—the first, L'enlevement d'Europe, for example, contains eight scenes within a span of eight minutes. The soloists including Bathori, the tenor Jean Planel and the baritone Georges Petit, sing brilliantly and in the distinctive French style of the time.
Only part of the ballet Les songes was recorded in 1934, though what we can hear is very attractive. Les amours de Ronsard, comprising three songs for vocal quartet and orchestra, make a very charming effect, with again some very 'period' singing. More seductive still is the delicious solo violin playing of Yvonne Astruc, who recorded the Concertino de printemps with an ensemble under Milhaud very soon after they had given the first performance. Suite provencale is played under the conductor of the first Paris performance, Roger Desormiere. His clear-cut interpretation is very similar to the composer's own later recording. The First Piano Concerto is brilliantly played by the dedicatee and first performer, Marguerite Long, who also adds two brief pieces which were fill-ups on the original 78rpm set.
La fete de la musique was written to accompany a 1937 light and fireworks spectacle. The original recording, relayed through loudspeakers, was made by French HMV. It is released for the first time. I wish I could write more about this magnificent set. Transfers are first-rate, and the accompanying booklet is highly informative, with many fascinating photographs.'
Contents are arranged in order of composition, and unless otherwise noted involve the composer as conductor. Extracts from the 23-year-old composer's cantata Les choephores were recorded in 1928–9 by Belgian forces under Louis de Vocht. This pungent, strongly performed music is notable for the narration of Claire Croiza, whose diction is almost as compelling as her mezzo voice. The same chorus and orchestra also perform a brief excerpt from another cantata, Les eumenides.
Milhaud was not a great pianist, but he recorded the first book of Printemps and excerpts from Saudades do Brasil to good effect in 1928–30, and within the same years he accompanied the mezo Jane Bathori in several short song-cycles—Poemes juffs, Les soirees de Petrograd, Trois poemes de Jean Cocteau, plus Satie's
Milhaud arranged his ballet Le boeuf sur le toit for violin and piano, although the transcription lacks the original's pungency, even in a lively 1928 performance by Rene Benedetti and Jean Wiener. Milhaud's first recording of La creation du monde, an uncharacteristically cautious reading, is followed by one of two brief recorded excerpts from his
Only part of the ballet Les songes was recorded in 1934, though what we can hear is very attractive. Les amours de Ronsard, comprising three songs for vocal quartet and orchestra, make a very charming effect, with again some very 'period' singing. More seductive still is the delicious solo violin playing of Yvonne Astruc, who recorded the Concertino de printemps with an ensemble under Milhaud very soon after they had given the first performance. Suite provencale is played under the conductor of the first Paris performance, Roger Desormiere. His clear-cut interpretation is very similar to the composer's own later recording. The First Piano Concerto is brilliantly played by the dedicatee and first performer, Marguerite Long, who also adds two brief pieces which were fill-ups on the original 78rpm set.
La fete de la musique was written to accompany a 1937 light and fireworks spectacle. The original recording, relayed through loudspeakers, was made by French HMV. It is released for the first time. I wish I could write more about this magnificent set. Transfers are first-rate, and the accompanying booklet is highly informative, with many fascinating photographs.'
Milhaud Historic Recordings 1928-1948
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