Composer: Georges Auric, Louis Edmond Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Germaine Tailleferre
Performer: Franziska Andrea Heinzen, Benjamin Mead
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Solo Musica
Catalogue: SM357
Release: 2021
Size: 835 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Auric: Prélude
01. No. 1, Prélude
Auric: Poèmes de Fargue
02. No. 1, Nuit blanche
03. No. 2, Enfance
04. No. 3, Regrets
Durey: Romance sans paroles, Op. 21
05. No. 2
Durey: Vergers, Op. 42
06. No. 1, La biche
07. No. 2, Arrêtons-nous
08. No. 3, Eau qui se presse
09. No. 4, Comme un verre de Venise
10. No. 5, Un cygne
11. No. 6, La passante d’été
12. No. 7, La fontaine
Honegger: Sarabande, H. 26
13. No. 3
Honegger: Petit Cours de Morale
14. No. 1, Jeanne
15. No. 2, Adèle
16. No. 3, Cécile
17. No. 4, Irène
18. No. 5, Rosemonde
19. Satie: Premier Menuet
Satie: Quatre Petites Mélodies
20. No. 1, Élegie
21. No. 2, Danseuse
22. No. 3, Chanson
23. No. 4, Adieu
Milhaud: Mazurka
24. No. 4
Milhaud: Poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59
25. No. 1, Fumée
26. No. 2, Fête de Bordeaux
27. No. 3, Fête de Montmartre
Poulenc: Valse
28. No. 5, Valse in C, FP 17
Poulenc: Miroirs brûlants
29. No. 1, Tu vois le feu du soir
30. No. 2, Je nommerai ton front
Tailleferre: Pastorale
31. No. 6, Pastorale. Enjoué
Tailleferre: Chansons françaises
32. No. 1, Non, non, la fidélité
33. No. 2, Souvent un air de vérité
6 Chansons françaises
34. No. 3, Mon mari m’a diffamée
35. No. 4, Vrai Dieu, qui m’y confortera
36. No. 5, On a dit mal de mon ami
37. No. 6, Je vous donne, avec grand plaisir
Then as now, the music of “Les Six“ 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 “L’Album des Six“ 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 “L’Album des Six“ 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.