Various Artists - Les Six - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Then as now, the music of InchLes SixInch is a fascinating kaleidoscope of musical ideas and friendship; an idiosyncratic preciousness full of musical avant-garde, everyday melancholy, profound curiosities, virtuosity and passion that is in need of rediscovery. The collaborative work InchL'Album des SixInch was created in 1920, to which each of the six composers Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre contributed a piece. Arranged alphabetically, the album summarizes the composers through their connection with various aesthetic ideas, different personalities and lifelong friendship. 100 years later, the InchL'Album des SixInch is expanded with corresponding song cycles from their oeuvres In addition to well-known compositions by Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud, the first releases of the song cycles by Georges Auric (1940) and Louis Durey (1920) enrich the album in a special way. Album Tracks 1. Prélude 1919 2. Trois Poèmes de Léon-Paul Fargue 1940 3. Romance Sans Paroles Op. 21 1920 4. Vergers Op. 42 1932 5. Sarabande H 26 1920 6. Petit Cours de Morale H 148 1941 7. Premier Menuet 1920 8. Quatres Mélodies 1920 9. Mazurka 1914 10. Trois Chansons de Jean Cocteau 1920 11. Valse in C 1919 12. Miroirs Brûlants 1938 13. Pastorale. Enjoué 1919 14. Six Chansons Françaises 1929