Darius Milhaud: Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n.5 op.346 (1955)

[@kerrichristopher740]

Fabulous work. Milhaud's five piano concertos are fantastic contributions to the repertoire!

[@notaire2]

Brillante Interpretation dieses einzigartigen Konzerts mit gut artikuliertem Klang des Soloklaviers und farbenprächtigen Töne anderer Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt echt lyrisch und schön. Der geniale Maestro dirigiert das hoch funktionelle Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo mit völlig effektiver Dynamik. Einfach faszinierend!

[@austerity101]

A happy find in this channel. I think it's too easy to be dismissive of Milhaud's prolific œuvre--we still too often envision the composer as a tortured soul wresting music with great pain and difficulty, so Milhaud's seeming effortlessness causes many to view his works as trifling and superficial. Yes, the evergreen nature of Milhaud's music is often enjoyed on the surface, but he is to be commended for his fearless weaving of simple melodies into complex tapestries. Certainly in a lesser, more self-conscious composer, such simplicity of idea would be forced to be overwrought to be made "important," and we should be grateful that Milhaud refuses to fall victim to such romanticized conceit. Milhaud's later works in particular are worth far more consideration, this concerto included, than they've been afforded--his harmonic daringness of these later years, brought into astonishing relief through the clarity of his textures, can be quite breathtaking.

[@dillonrory2038]

@Jeffery Ira yea, been watching on InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)

[@almudenadlopez]

Hermosísimo.

[@gerardbegni2806]

The series of concerti for pianoforte and orchestra of Milhaud is poorly known. Nevertheless these scores are admirably well written and quite charactristic of his medodic, hermonic and rythmic style. The experimantal period had passed for long when he wrote this concerto, the style of his maturity is here: a classical style enriched by all the assimilated experiences that he did previously.

[@stueystuey1962]

Honestly I don't know what attracts me to his music. Perhaps the accompanying artwork. After all my mainstays are Carter, Maderna, Wuorinen. I think it's the parlorish quality - something that is sublimated in the radical modernists but ever present. The sturm und drang as represented by Hadyn, Beethoven, Brahms etc...is necessary but as much as I adore the second Viennese school and Darmstadt I also enjoy the French.

[@TheProsaicCult]

Marvelous!

[@tonyvillamotte4339]

The slow movement sounds oddly like Finzi's Eclogue. I wonder if Milhaud knew the piece.

[@j.a.w.wijlens6423]

Indeed. A fabulous work but very difficult to perform. You can here it in this recording. It's not smooth every where. This is a recording but playing it live for an audience is something else. Your selfconscions must be very high to play this live and the ours working on this concerto before playing live must be very long and hard.Milhaud 's music is offen very beautifull but his oeuvre is uneven. Antiromantic and that's offen the reasen that the audience and performers don't want to hear or perform this music. ......To many ours for study and an audience to small for making you a great star performer, then the choice is simple to make.

[@giovannismartini479]

5:07

[@ejb7969]

12:13 ...

[@MichaSchlechtriem]

I only like the second concerto,sorry.But this I like a lot.Not this garbarge.The second concerto is a masterwork.The other ones.......not.