MILHAUD - Saudades do Brazil - Eva Ander video

Darius Milhaud - from " Saudades do Brazil Op 67" - Suite de Danses (1920/21) - Tijuca ( at 1:41 ) - Sorocabo ( at 3:08 ) - Leme ( at 5:40 ) - Sumare ( at 7:42 ) - Gavea recorded from STEREO Vinyl LP ETERNA - 1981 - "Klaviermusik des 20. Jahrhunderts" recorded 1979 in DRESDEN Studio Lukaskirche . Eva Ander was a great pianist in the GDR (DDR). She was born in Dresden, take her studies in Dresden by Prof. Schneider-Marfels and was a teacher for piano in Dresden. She was a really good pianist ! -- French composer Darius Milhaud's Saudades do Brazil is a suite of 12 dances for piano. In English, the title roughly translates to "Fond Remembrances of Brazil"; according to Milhaud, it was "inspired by South American rhythms and not based on folk music." Many writers assert that Milhaud began this suite in 1918 while still serving in Brazil as secretary to the French Ambassador, Paul Claudel. However, Milhaud places the beginning of his work on this suite in Denmark during the summer of 1920, where he was working under Claudel in a similar capacity. Max Eschig published the Saudades in 1922 in two volumes as opus 67, with Milhaud's orchestration of same appearing as Opus 67b in 1923. When Milhaud first arrived in the United States in 1940 he frequently performed the Saudades in personal appearances with American orchestras. This was partly due to the fact that Saudades do Brazil was one of only three orchestral scores available to Milhaud in the US when he arrived. The work did ...