Cocteau, Satie and Les Six (CD)

*This is NOT a comic! But you can listen to it while you read comics!

By Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Les Six. Published by Les Temps Modernes

CD, 1917-1959 (2005 printing)

The celebrated L'Album des Six of 1920 represents a small landmark in the development of 20th century modernist music, featuring music by Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud, Louis Durey and Germaine Tailleferre. Nevertheless the relationship between the young French composers of 'Les Six' and artful mentors Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau formed an important cornerstone of the interwar avant-garde.

As well as the L'Album des Six, 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. The album closes with music written 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, Orphée and Le Testament d'Orphée.

Tracklist:

1. JEAN COCTEAU Introducing Les Six (1953)
2. LES SIX L'Album des Six (1920)
3. FRANCIS POULENC Cocardes (1920)
4. ERIK SATIE Parade (1917)
5. DARIUS MILHAUD Le Boeuff sur le toit (1919)
6. ARTHUR HONEGGER Pacific 231 (1923)
7. JEAN COCTEAU 2 jazz poems (1929)
8. GEORGES AURIC 5 Cocteau film themes (1930-1959)

1 Introduces Les Six
2 L'Album Des Six - Prelude
3 L'Album Des Six - Romance Sans Paroles
4 L'Album Des Six - Sarabande
5 L'Album Des Six - Mazurka
6 L'Album Des Six - Valse
7 L'Album Des Six - Pastorale
8 Cocardes
9 Parade
10 Le Boeuff Sur Le Toit
11 Pacific 231
12 La Toison D'or
13 Les Voleurs D'Enfants
14 Le Sang D'Un Poete
15 La Belle Et La Bête
16 L'Aigle A Deux Tetes
17 Orphee
18 Le Testament D'Orphee