Darius Milhaud - Sonata for 2 Violins and Piano, Op. 15 (1914)

[@laylapark1964]

I have a chamber competition with this piece tomorrow This video really helped me adding some ideas on my group's music! I will check in later to tell you if I did win or not. +edit: MY GROUP WON THE FIRST PRIZE

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

I give you a belated Congratulations!

[@majesticseaflapflap7547]

this gave me a healthy dose of seratonin to continue the day, thank you, stranger, and congratulations!

[@SuonoReale]

According to his obituary in the New York Times, Milhaud always wrote with a pen and never changed a note once he wrote it down, and it's easy to hear why.

[@lanc2776]

Milhaud! One of my favorite composers!

[@SCRIABINIST]

Wow! I didn't pay much attention to Millhaud before! This is a fantastic work, especially by the likes of a student!

[@vishnuhalikere2151]

Love the color the violinists give at 2:24

[@bobbyalarcon_music]

This was so beautiful, thanks for always helping me discover new pieces and composers!

[@9827george]

very beautiful! I love Milhaud's harmonic language alot, the polytonality based on fourths and fifths.

[@aprilh3882]

love this and love milhaud!

[@TimothyZhou0]

Heard this many years ago but could not for the life of me remember which sonata this was. Thanks for uploading!

[@ArtKrikorian]

Terrific piece.

[@vishnuhalikere2151]

Would also like to add that the measure right on 1:08 feels so satisfactory

[@AmealYT]

This is my favorite wind band score study

[@collinziegler1615]

Aldous Huxley referred to this piece (unfairly?) in a significant piece of music criticism called "Temporaries and Eternals," published in the Westminster Gazette on November 25, 1922: "Of one thing, however, I do feel certain. They will be astonished that anyone ever took the young Frenchmen of the nineteen-twenties as much more than a joke. Some of us are astonished even now. Darius Milhaud's sonata for two violins and piano [...] did nothing to lessen that astonishment. It is pretty and elegant enough in its tenuous way. But for all practical purposes it does not exist. Milhaud's sonata sounds like the dry, evaporated essence of a piece of music by some not very original pre-Handelian composer. Mr. Newman recent printed an article on the difficulty of spotting winners for the artistic immortality stakes; it is less difficult, I think, to spot the losers. In M. Darius Milhaud we have a pretty certain Also Ran."

[@humbertocastorena8714]

so true. are you single btw

[@bartjebartmans]

Vintage garbage caused by excessive LSD use.

[@lanc2776]

Huxley's generally a smart guy but he's way off the mark here.

[@johnzielinski9951]

Huxley didn't experiment with any mind-altering substances until the 50's. So I wonder what he heard (or didn't hear) in this superlative piece that inspired him to pen such a caustic review. Perhaps he couldn't wrap his head around the mysticism and joie de vivre of French Post-Romanticism? If you're steeped in German music, the floating-cloud nature of Mihlaud's pieces will definitely sound strange. I wonder what he thought of Debussy and Ravel...

[@yuehchopin]

schön lebendig

[@OsvaCola]

Milhaud sounds like Ravel in this Sonata

[@katehunt8029]

Very interesting piece of music.....I found it sometimes hard to hear the violins. It seemed more of a sonata for piano.

[@bartjebartmans]

the recording could be better, but for the rest it got my stamp of approval. If I was complaining it wasn't on my channel.

[@katehunt8029]

@@bartjebartmans And your channel is truly a gold mine....I've made so many interesting discoveries.

[@lynnpooh6566]

3rd 12:06

[@KarolKoechlin]

8:20

[@GoblinWar]

anime 🤔