The Symphony No. 6, Op. 343, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1955 at the request of Charles Munch, for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This work is not to be confused with Milhaud's Chamber Symphony No. 6, op. 79.
Milhaud's Sixth Symphony has four movements and a total running time of about 30 minutes. The titles of the movements, as descriptive of their character as of tempo, are as follows:
This symphony is published by Heugel & Cie.
Recordings a stereo recording of the composer himself conducting the Louisville Orchestra, re-released in 2004 on the First Edition label a 1992 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 a 1997 all-digital recording by Michel Plasson and the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon
References
External links Video - Darius Milhaud - Symphony No. 6 (1 of 2) (15:05). Video - Darius Milhaud - Symphony No. 6 (2 of 2) (15:18).