Episode 2
Donald Macleod on how a chance meeting with writer and diplomat Paul Claudel resulted in a fruitful collaboration. It led to works influenced by the sights and sounds of Brazil.
A chance meeting with the writer and diplomat Paul Claudel resulted in a fruitful and long artistic collaboration for Darius Milhaud. It also led to an opportunity to accompany Claudel as part of the French legation in Brazil in 1917. Milhaud arrived in Rio at Carnival time and was immediately entranced by the sights and sounds that surrounded him.
The vibrant forest on the edge of Rio found expression in Claudel and Milhaud's po猫me plastique, l'homme et son D茅sir, while the dance rhythms would turn up years afterwards in the orchestral suite Saudades do Brasil.
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Darius Milhaud
Excerpt from Souvenir de Rio
Performer: The New London Orchestra Performer: Jack Gibbons (piano) Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)
- Helios CDH55168.
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Darius Milhaud
Saudades do Brasil (excerpt)
Performer: Orchestre National de France Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- EMI CDC 747845 2.
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Darius Milhaud
L'homme et son desir, Op.48 (1917-18)
Performer: Tomoko Makuuchi (soprano) Performer: Jian Zhao (mezzo soprano) Performer: Mathias Vidal (tenor) Performer: Bernard Deletr茅 (bass) Performer: Orchestre National de Lille Performer: Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor)
- Naxos 8557287.
- 11 to 18.
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Darius Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit, op.58 (1919)
Performer: Ulster Orchestra Performer: Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
- Chandos Chan 9023.
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