Darius Milhaud: Orchestral Music - Six chamber symphonies / Le boeuf sur le toit / Le carnaval d’Aix (2CD)

CD1
Six chamber symphonies
1 No.1 ‘Le printemps’ Op.43 3’25
2 No.2 ‘Pastorale’ Op.49 4’31
3 No.3 ‘Sérénade’ Op.71 3’32
4 No.4 Op.74 for ten string instruments 5’56
5 No.5 Op.75 for ten wind instruments 5’59
6 No.6 Op.79 for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass, oboe & cello 6’51
7 L’homme et son désir Op.48 for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass & orchestra 17’08

Josette Doemer soprano
Marie-Jeanne Klein contralto
Venent Arend tenor · Raymond Koster bass
Norbert Matern oboe · George Mallach cello

8 Piano Concerto No.2 Op.228 12’18

Grant Johannesen piano

9 Suite cisalpine sur des airs populaires piemontais Op.332 for cello & orchestra 14’41

Thomas Blees cello

Total time 75’25


CD2
1 Le boeuf sur le toit Op.58 for orchestra 15’23
2 Concerto for percussion & chamber orchestra Op.109 7’34

Faure Daniel percussion

3 Viola Concerto No.1 Op.108 Second version, for soloists 11’56

Ulrich Koch viola

4 La muse ménagère Op.245 for piano 21’10

Grant Johannesen piano

5 Le carnaval d’Aix Op.83b for piano & orchestra 18’20

Carl Seeman piano

Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg
(CD1; CD2: 1–3 & 5)

Conductors:
Darius Milhaud (CD1: 1–7; CD2: 2, 3 & 5)
Bernard Kontarsky (CD1: 8 & 9)
Louis de Froment (CD2: 1)

Total time 74’58