Listening to the Milhaud album BK mentioned in today's Notes. I don't think I'd ever listened to anything by Milhaud.
As with BK, that amazing RCA Soria Series package had been commanding my attention at Discount Records in downtown Cleveland for a while, and I finally gave in. But we also were performing it at school and I played the piano part. I always bought records to study by, and I also had a Nonesuch release with Milhaud conducting (which included
Le boeuf sur le toit, and be careful how you say that). I still have both, and a few others that I may or may not have ever listened to.
Later I was really glad I'd taken care of that Munch recording because it eventually became one of the more prized RCA albums, and mine is in beautiful condition.
Anyhoo,
Le création was also my introduction to Milhaud, and I was crazy about it.