Milhaud: Creation du Monde & Other Works

Ian Hobson (Artist, Conductor, Performer), Howard Klug (Performer), Darius Milhaud (Composer), Sinfonia da Camera (Orchestra), Catherine Tait (Performer)

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• Performer: Ian Hobson, Howard Klug, Catherine Tait
• Orchestra: Sinfonia da Camera
• Conductor: Ian Hobson
• Composer: Darius Milhaud
• Audio CD (April 10, 2009)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arabesque Recordings
• ASIN: B000000T6T
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #182,683 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Milhaud: Creation du Monde & Other Works by Ian Hobson

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to Milhaud, April 11, 2002

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While there is always talk of neglected 20th century composers, Milhaud is probably the worst case I know of, as he gets maybe 1/10th the credit he deserves. His music is very sophisticated, combining elements of jazz and the 20th century with an unmistakeable overall craftsmanship. He also developed his own brand of polyphony. On this CD we have the one movement, 15-minute Creation du Monde, inspired by his trip to Latin America, which starts with a melancholy main theme and leads into several dance outbursts. Then comes the trio for violin, clarinet and piano, another good piece. The two-piano Scaramouche is not the best I have heard, with a few syncing problems between the two pianists, but still far from unenjoyable, and the odds are you have, or will have, another recording anyway (the Lebeque sisters on Philips and the recording on Hyperion are both very good). The solo piano pieces at the end, the Rag-Caprices and Caramel Mou, are quite remarkable and deserve to be much better known. They are obviously foot-tapping rag and dance pieces, but also have a certain level of abstraction that make them satisfying listen after listen. IMO, they are on the level of just about any other composer. Altogether, every piece on this CD is uneqivocally excellent, (with perhaps the tiny exception of the 2nd rag-caprice, which sounds like a weaker version of the Scaramouche's 2nd movement).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Note from OANegrin, October 1, 2003

By	O. Angel Negrin "OANegrin" (Austintown, OH, USA) - See all my reviews

Note to fellow saxophonists:

The saxophonist on this recording of Milhaud's "Creation du Monde" is Joseph Lulloff, professor of saxophone at Michigan State University. Note that the "Scaramouche" recording found on this CD is the version for two pianos (no saxophone).

OANegrin