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It's true, we admit: no-one is really waiting for a new recording of Stravinsky's Firebird – even of the 1945 Suite, which is more rarely performed than the rather hackneyed one of 1919. But what's original about this album from the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France is rather the rare work by Milhaud: La Bien-Aimée, a ballet from 1928 which had the considerable misfortune of being first performed at the same concert as Ravel's Boléro – which, of course, eclipsed everyone and everything else. But this Bien-Aimée is not without its charms; it is in fact a series of orchestrations of Liszt and Schubert, with one piece for pianola! Yes, the pianola, the mechanical piano which doesn't play quite as "automatically" as all that, given that the human musician decides the tempo, the dynamics and the balances themselves. The difficulty of course lies in perfectly synchronising the pianola and the orchestra: but here, it is pulled off perfectly. Milhaud's orchestrations of this music by Liszt and Schubert are a lot of fun, and Milhaud enjoys a few flashes of genius, and on occasion an unlikely orchestral hodgepodge with neither head nor tail but which, oddly, hits the mark, if in a somewhat slapstick manner. One to discover! © SM/Qobuz
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La Bien-Aimée, Op. 101 (Orchestration D. Milhaud) (Franz Liszt)
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Liszt, Composer - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Rex Lawson, Pianola - Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Liszt, Composer - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Rex Lawson, Pianola - Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Schubert, Composer - Franz Liszt, Arranger - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Liszt, Composer - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Rex Lawson, Pianola - Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Schubert, Composer - Franz Liszt, Arranger - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Liszt, Composer - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
L'Oiseau de feu, KC 10 (1945 version) (Igor Stravinsky)
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
La Bien-Aimée, Op. 101 (Orchestration D. Milhaud) (Franz Liszt)
Rex Lawson, Pianola - Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France - Enrique Mazzola, Conductor - Franz Liszt, Composer - Darius Milhaud, Orchestrator
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Album review
It's true, we admit: no-one is really waiting for a new recording of Stravinsky's Firebird – even of the 1945 Suite, which is more rarely performed than the rather hackneyed one of 1919. But what's original about this album from the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France is rather the rare work by Milhaud: La Bien-Aimée, a ballet from 1928 which had the considerable misfortune of being first performed at the same concert as Ravel's Boléro – which, of course, eclipsed everyone and everything else. But this Bien-Aimée is not without its charms; it is in fact a series of orchestrations of Liszt and Schubert, with one piece for pianola! Yes, the pianola, the mechanical piano which doesn't play quite as "automatically" as all that, given that the human musician decides the tempo, the dynamics and the balances themselves. The difficulty of course lies in perfectly synchronising the pianola and the orchestra: but here, it is pulled off perfectly. Milhaud's orchestrations of this music by Liszt and Schubert are a lot of fun, and Milhaud enjoys a few flashes of genius, and on occasion an unlikely orchestral hodgepodge with neither head nor tail but which, oddly, hits the mark, if in a somewhat slapstick manner. One to discover! © SM/Qobuz
Details of original recording : Recorded September 2016 at the Maison de l'Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Alfortville (France)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:10
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Enrique Mazzola Rex Lawson Orchestre national d'île-de-France
- Composer: Darius Milhaud
- Label: NoMadMusic
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music
- Period: Modern Style
NoMadMusic Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
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