Ballet, Milhaud (composer)
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This classy, sassy collection of transcriptions of music by Debussy, Milhaud, Satie, Joplin and Auric could be just the tonic you need in these unsettled and unsettling times, regardless of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Special offer. Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Création du Monde, Poulenc: Les Biches
Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Here is 1920s French music directed by a conductor who's completely in the spirit of it, and plenty of spirit there is, too. Except for Ibert's Divertissement, this is ballet music. Poulenc's... —
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French Ballet Music of the 1920s
RecommendedL’Éventail de Jeanne, ballet in one act by ten French composers; Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, ballet in one act by members of the group Les Six
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
The zany exuberance of Les mariés, concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissue, as is L'éventail, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hans Rosbaud Conducts French Music
Monique Haas (piano), Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud
The transfers are more than satisfactory. An extremely fine collection, much to be recommended, and not only to the aficionado. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Milhaud: Orchestral Works
Tomoko Makuuchi (soprano), Jian Zhao (mezzo-soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Bernard Deletré (bass)
Orchestre National de Lille-Région Nord / Pas de Calais, Jean-Claude Casadesus
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Special offer. Le Boeuf sur le toit
French works for violin and orchestra
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Daniel Harding
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Milhaud: La création du monde - Koechlin: Vers la voûte étoilée - Ward: Fumes - Elgar: Enigma Variations
Philzuid, Duncan Ward
Duncan Ward’s Philharmonie Zuidnederland pace and balance these wide-eyed works admirably. —
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Milhaud was an inveterate traveller who absorbed influences from many national styles.
The music here exudes infectious dance impulses, languid geniality, knockabout humour and joie de vivre.... —Purchase product
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Tamara Volskaya
The Paganini of the Domra!
Tamara Volskaya (domra)
National Shevchenko Orchestra, Alexander Veprinsky
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