The Symphony No. 8, Op. 362, subtitled Rhôdanienne, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1957 on a commission from the University of California. Its four programmatic movements paint a musical landscape of the course of the Rhone River.
Milhaud's Eighth Symphony has a total running time of about 22 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 conducting the orchestra of French Radio, re-released in 2003 on the Apex label a 1993 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
External links Video - Darius Milhaud - Symphony No. 8 (1 of 2) (13:37). Video - Darius Milhaud - Symphony No. 8 (2 of 2) (09:54).