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01. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Tailleferre: Ouverture pour orchestre (1931)
02. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
03. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Honegger: Pastorale d'ete - Poeme Symphonique (1920)
04. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Rondeau
05. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Chanson dansee
06. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Adaglietto
07. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Rag - Mazurka
08. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Andantino
09. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Poulenc: Les Biches (1923) - Finale
10. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Milhaud: Suite pour vn, cl, et pf op. 157b (1936) - Overture. Vif et gai
11. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Milhaud: Suite pour vn, cl, et pf op. 157b (1936) - Divertissement. Anime
12. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Milhaud: Suite pour vn, cl, et pf op. 157b (1936) - Jeu. Vif
13. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Milhaud: Suite pour vn, cl, et pf op. 157b (1936) - Introduction et Final. Modere -Vif
14. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Milhaud: La boeuf sur le toit or "The Nothing Doing Bar" (1919)
15. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Auric: Orphee (1949)
16. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Auric: La Belle et la bete (1946)
17. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Auric: L'Aigle a deux tetes (1947)
18. JEAN COCTEAU & LES SIX - Durey: Le Printemps au Fond de la Mer - Poeme Of Cocteau (1920)
ARTIST
TITLE
Once Upon A Time
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ACMEM 152CD ACMEM 152CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/25/2008

"Paris 1919. Playwright, novelist, poet, surrealist, filmmaker and self-publicist Jean Cocteau was the literary spokesman for Les Six. With his endorsement, and the inspiration of Erik Satie and fired by the principles of Dada and surrealism, the group, comprising Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre and Louis Durey, expressed their irreverence towards the twin spectres of lifeless tradition and bloodless modernism. They embraced the previously forbidden worlds of popular song, 'primitive' music and jazz and in so doing, helped purge the classical music establishment of its deeply ingrained snobbery and pave the way for generations of iconoclasts -- in classical, jazz and rock music -- still to come. Our edition comprises famous examples of the work of this group of composers who so scandalized twenties Paris Pacific 231, Les Biches, Le Boeuf sur le Toit and La Creation du Monde along with themes from Georges Auric¹s scores for Cocteau s the very influential surrealistic film fantasies; Orphée (Orpheus), La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) and L'aigle à deux têtes (The Eagle has Two Heads)."