Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Darius Milhaud - Complete Chronological Collection

"Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as The Group of Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality." - Wikipedia


"Stage Works


Darius Milhaud wrote a considerable amount of music for the theatre (operas, ballets and incidental music) as well as film and radio scores. Collaboration with Claudel brought the opera Christophe Colombe and incidental music for plays ranging from those of Shakespeare to the work of contemporaries such as Brecht, Supervielle, Giraudoux and Anouilh. With Cocteau he wrote the ballets Le Boeuf sur le Toit ('The Ox on the Roof') and the jazz La Création du Monde ('The Creation of the World'). These represent only a small fraction of his dramatic work.

Orchestral Music


Milhaud was equally prolific as a composer of orchestral music of all kinds, including 12 symphonies and a variety of concertos, some of which reflect the influence of his native Provence.

Vocal and Choral Music

Milhaud also contributed widely to the repertoire of French song. His settings (both choral and solo voice with piano) are of texts from a great variety of sources, including Rabindranath Tagore, André Gide, and the words of Pope John XXIII (the last in a choral symphony Pacem in terris). He contributed to Cocteau's Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel and, as a gesture, set to music an agricultural appliance catalogue. Other works reflect his Jewish background.

Chamber Music

Milhaud wrote 18 string quartets and provided useful additions to duo sonata repertoire, not least for the viola. His Quatre Visages of 1943 for viola and piano comprises musical representations of four different kinds of girls. For wind quintet he composed the charming suite La Cheminée du Roi René, and for oboe, clarinet and bassoon he wrote the attractive Pastorale. The works show his characteristically French adroitness in writing for woodwind instruments.

Piano Music

Two works in particular have proved attractive additions to repertoire. The first, Saudades do Brasil, a suite for piano, is based on music heard in Brazil during the composer’s stay there between 1916 and 1918. Scaramouche, arranged for two pianos from incidental music for Molière's Le Médécin volant, is a lively jeu d'esprit, in the spirit of the commedia dell'arte character of the title. La Muse ménagère ('The Domestic Muse') reflects the necessary wartime attempts at house-keeping by his actress wife." - Naxos

Get all available works in one Spotify playlist: Darius Milhaud - Complete Chronological Collection (664 tracks, total time: 37 hours). Ctrl (CMD) + G to browse in album view. Difference arrangements, like four version of Scaramouche, are also included. For a complete list of works see this Wikipedia page.

Milhaud's notable students include: Ben Johnston, Steve Reich, Iannis Xenakis, and Dave Brubeck.

9 comments:

  1. I'm really enjoying this playlist - thanks for compiling it. Just writing to let you know that the version of L'Homme et son desir, Op. 48 that you chose has been entered into Spotify incorrectly and plays unrelated music from another album entirely. You can replace it with http://open.spotify.com/track/3O8rmm75uxI2RHhyDYpE27

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  2. (Actually http://open.spotify.com/track/3crhsflBmndWmOfgJeu36D seems better...)

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  3. You're missing the original orchestral version of Le Boeuf sur le toit op. 58. (The track you have with that title is actually op.58b, the version with a violin soloist). Everything that's there should stay; just add http://open.spotify.com/track/2GqLp4ZmCupu7g6OoR0tEp before the others.

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  7. Milhaud fue igualmente exitoso como compositor de música para orquestas de todas las categorías, incluyendo 12 óperas y una variedad de concertos, algunos de los cuales reflejan la influencia de su tierra natal de Provenza. I am sure many readers will find this post useful. ¡Sigue con tu excelente trabajo! I look forward to seeing more fascinating factoids from your point of view in the future. ¡Muchas gracias por tu contribución!
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