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Leonard Bernstein's 1976 recordings with the Orchestre National de France of Darius Milhaud's jazz-age ballets La création du monde and Le boeuf sur le toit, along with the suite Saudades do Brasil, are the featured selections on this EMI reissue. This is the kind of accessible and vibrant modern music that Bernstein usually brought off with panache, and these works are, for all practical purposes, Milhaud's greatest hits. Collectors of historic recordings should note this disc's filler, Milhaud's own take of Saudades do Brasil, performed with insouciance by the Concert Arts Orchestra.