COMPLETE VIOLIN & VIOLA SONATAS

Lent Et Robuste – Animé Tres Lent Tres Rythmé, Joyeux Printemps Op Pastoral Vif Tres Lent Tres Vif Capriccio No Płyta 2. Visages For Viola And Piano Op La Californienne The Wisconsonian La Bruxelloise La Parisienne Entrée Francaise Air Final Champetre Dramatique Rude 2’40 Darius Milhaud is one of the most colourful and versatile composers of 20th century France. Milhaud was active in all fields and genres of composition: opera, choral, orchestral, chamber and solo works, a prolific writer and bold spirit, a member of the French composer’s group “Les Six”, a modernist influenced by jazz, polytonality and Brazilian culture. This new recording contains the complete violin and viola sonatas, highly attractive works in which the formal structures of the sonata form are imbued with the temperament, colours and perfumes of the Provence, the natural habitat of Darius Milhaud. Excellent performances by Mauro Tortorelli, who plays both violin and viola, and pianist Angela Meluso, who already successfully recorded for Brilliant Classics the Violin Sonatas by Saint-Saëns (BC94848), which received 4 and 5 star reviews in the international press. Excellent liner notes in Italian and English Recording: October 2015, Studio I Musicanti, Rome, Italy