COCTEAU, SATIE AND 'LES SIX'
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The celebrated L'Album des Six of 1920 is now recognised as a landmark in 20th Century modern music. Similarly the artful relationship between the composers who formed 'Les Six' and their mentors Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau forms an important cornerstone of the inter-war avant garde.

This 74 minute anthology also includes music composed by Satie and Les Six for spectacles staged by Cocteau between 1917 and 1920, as well as Arthur Honegger's futuristic Pacific 231, and music by Georges Auric for five Cocteau films made between 1930 and 1959: Le Sang d'un Poete, La Belle et la Bete, L'Aigle a Deux Tetes, Orphee, Le Testament D'Orphee.

Full tracklist:
JEAN COCTEAU Introduces Les Six (1953)

L'ALBUM DES SIX (1920) 11.30
Georges Auric Prelude
Louis Durey Romance sans Paroles Op 21
Arthur Honegger Sarabande
Darius Milhaud Mazurka
Francis Poulenc Valse
Germaine Tailleferre Pastorale

FRANCIS POULENC Cocardes (1920)

ERIK SATIE Parade (1917)

DARIUS MILHAUD Le Boeuff sur le Toit (1919)

ARTHUR HONEGGER Pacific 231 (1923)

JEAN COCTEAU La Toison D'or and Les Voleurs d'Enfants (1929)

GEORGES AURIC five Cocteau film themes - Le Sang d'un Poete, La Belle et la Bete, L'Aigle a Deux Tetes, Orphee, Le Testament D'Orphee

All material on this definitive collection has been digitally remastered. The deluxe booklet features many rare images, as well as detailed historical notes by noted author James Hayward. To read the sleevenotes click here.

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