Le Piano du Groupe des Six
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG61323002
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 26th January 2024
Contents
Works
Pastorales (3)Prelude (from 'Album des Six')
A Francis Poulenc
Preludes (3), op.26
Romance sans paroles, op.21 (from 'Album des Six')
Pieces breves (7)
Sarabande (from 'Album des Six')
Mazurka (from 'Album des Six')
Rag-caprices (3) for piano, op.78
Pastorales (3)
Valse (from 'Album des Six')
La Belle Excentrique
La Diva de l'Empire
Hommage a Debussy
Pastorale: Enjoue (from 'Album des Six')
Pas trop vite
Artists
Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)Works
Pastorales (3)Prelude (from 'Album des Six')
A Francis Poulenc
Preludes (3), op.26
Romance sans paroles, op.21 (from 'Album des Six')
Pieces breves (7)
Sarabande (from 'Album des Six')
Mazurka (from 'Album des Six')
Rag-caprices (3) for piano, op.78
Pastorales (3)
Valse (from 'Album des Six')
La Belle Excentrique
La Diva de l'Empire
Hommage a Debussy
Pastorale: Enjoue (from 'Album des Six')
Pas trop vite
Artists
Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)About
What united Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger and Louis Durey was a certain opposition to Wagner's music and to so-called "Impressionism". On closer inspection, the similarities end there... the title of Tailleferre's Hommage à Debussy speaks for itself... One encounters Pastorales surprisingly often, however, those expecting the bucolic atmosphere of a gently swaying 6/8 time signature might be disappointed: all six were Parisian city dwellers. While excursions into the genres of jazz, cabaret, film and theatre are often accompanied by simple, linear, neoclassical forms, Louis Durey's Préludes shows there is another way - his phrases filled with dramatic tension nigh on bursting are a fantastic discovery! Erik Satie wrote "The spontaneity, the creative power, the boldness can be found first and foremost in Auric, Milhaud, Poulenc - the concern for the convention of the school, for tried and tested harmonic forms, that is the destiny chosen by Durey, Honegger, Tailleferre. They are free to act in this way." Despite all the differences, the members of the group remained in touch, which is confirmed by a photo of the six from the 1950s, posing in the same way as in a photo from 1925.
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