The Symphony No. 11 , Op. 384, nicknamed Romantique , is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud . The piece was written in 1960 on a joint commission from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Public Library , and received its premiere under conductor Paul Kletzki .[ 1]
Milhaud's Eleventh Symphony is a three-movement work with a total running time of about 19 minutes. The titles of the movements, as descriptive of their character as of tempo, are as follows:
Intense (approx. 4'20")
Méditatif (approx. 9'30")
Emporté (approx. 5'15")
This symphony is published by Heugel & Cie . Recordings of this symphony include a 1995 all-digital recording by Alun Francis and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel , part of a boxed set of Milhaud's Symphonies No. 1–12 on CPO.
References
^ Schulz, Reinhard . Darius Milhaud Symphonies 10-12 (CD liner notes). CPO, 1996. pp. 9– 10.
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