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Les malheurs d'Orphée / Acte I : Milhaud: Les malheurs d'Orphée / Acte I: Air d'Orphée
About This Song
About "Les malheurs d'Orphée / Acte I : Milhaud: Les malheurs d'Orphée / Acte I: Air d'Orphée" by Andre Vessieres
Milhaud's neoclassical opera strips Orpheus of mythic grandeur, leaving a shepherd's raw lament. Vessieres renders the Air with stately melancholy, his bass-baritone a dark river through spare, astringent harmonies. The calm of pastoral life trembles against encroaching loss, each phrase a quiet stone dropped into still water.