"If you love winds, . . . and great (none better) wind playing,
consider investing in this . . . absolutely first-class production."
(American Record Guide)
"A very attractive program of French music for oboe, clarinet, and
bassoon that offers a mini-feast of Gallic appeal, piquant charm, and
those naughty harmonies that fascinated French composers in the earlier
part of this century . . . The Chicago Chamber Musicians is a very fine
group of musicians who dispatch the most taxing passages with an
effortless ease." (Fanfare)
An attractive and neglected area of 20th-century repertoire gets its
due on this CD that toasts French composers and their delightful wind
trios.
On its second outing for Cedille Records, The Chicago Chamber Musicians
- in this instance, a subset comprising oboist Michael Henoch,
clarinetist Larry Combs, and bassoonist William Buchman - perform eight
sparkling wind trios composed expressly for that instrumentation in the
1930s and 1940s by Paul Pierné (not his better-known cousin, Gabriel),
Canteloube, Ibert, Milhaud, Tansman, Auric, and Françaix.
...Milhaud's wind trios, the Pastorale and the Suite d'après Corrette, do not share the aggressive modernism preached by Les Six; they reveal instead the composer's firm roots in the musical past, and his interest in both folk music and the composers of the French Baroque. The Suite originated as music for a French-language production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, staged in Paris in 1937. Milhaud's inspiration was the early 18th-century composer Michel Corrette. In its non-stage form the music takes the shape of a neo-Baroque suite of dance pieces, interspersed with self-described sections such as the Fanfare, the gentle Serenade, and the graphic Cuckoo finale. The tiny Pastorale is a kind of miniature prelude and fugue in which the oboe takes the leading role; its mood and atmosphere are amply described by the title.
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Darius Milhaud
Suite d'apres Corrette Play
Recorded on 10/02/1997, uploaded on 04/02/2009
Musician's or Publisher's Notes
"If you love winds, . . . and great (none better) wind playing, consider investing in this . . . absolutely first-class production." (American Record Guide)
"A very attractive program of French music for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon that offers a mini-feast of Gallic appeal, piquant charm, and those naughty harmonies that fascinated French composers in the earlier part of this century . . . The Chicago Chamber Musicians is a very fine group of musicians who dispatch the most taxing passages with an effortless ease." (Fanfare)
An attractive and neglected area of 20th-century repertoire gets its due on this CD that toasts French composers and their delightful wind trios.
On its second outing for Cedille Records, The Chicago Chamber Musicians - in this instance, a subset comprising oboist Michael Henoch, clarinetist Larry Combs, and bassoonist William Buchman - perform eight sparkling wind trios composed expressly for that instrumentation in the 1930s and 1940s by Paul Pierné (not his better-known cousin, Gabriel), Canteloube, Ibert, Milhaud, Tansman, Auric, and Françaix.
...Milhaud's wind trios, the Pastorale and the Suite d'après Corrette, do not share the aggressive modernism preached by Les Six; they reveal instead the composer's
firm roots in the musical past, and his interest in both folk music and the composers of the French Baroque. The Suite originated as music for a French-language production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, staged in Paris in 1937. Milhaud's inspiration was the early 18th-century composer Michel Corrette. In its non-stage form the music takes the shape of a neo-Baroque suite of dance pieces, interspersed with self-described sections such as the Fanfare, the gentle Serenade, and the graphic Cuckoo finale. The tiny Pastorale is a kind of miniature prelude and fugue in which the oboe takes the leading role; its mood and atmosphere are amply described by the title.
Notes by Andrea Lamoreaux
More music by Darius Milhaud
Le Printemps Op. 18
Ballade for Piano and Orchestra
Scaramouche
Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
La Cheminée du Roi René
Suite for clarinet ,violin and Piano op.157b
La Cheminée du Roi René
Le boeuf sur le toit
La Cheminée du Roi René
Quartet no. 15
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Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
La Diva de l'Empire (arr. Easley Blackwood)
Trio
Quintet in B minor for Flute, String Trio and Piano
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