Leventail De Jeanne Les
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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 22-MAR-2005
- Amazon Sales Rank: #340683 in Music
- Brand: SIMON,GEOFFREY
- Released on: 2005-03-22
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
 Gay Pareeeeee
By bonerfly
Oh what glorious, joyful and charming scores. Full of humor, wit and creativity. This is a 1920s collaboration of the infamous “Le Six” and friends. Milhaud, Poulenc, Ravel, Auric, Ibert, Roussel, Honneger, Ferroud, Tailleferre, Delannoy, Schmitt and Roland-Manuel. A veritable who’s who of great French composers. Close your eyes and you are walking the streets of Paris or having a cocktail at the Moulon Rouge. These performances could not be bettered and the Chandos sound is SPECTACULAR. Rich, warm and spacious with depth. You will have a smile on your face, a sparkle in your eyes and a bounce in your step after listening to this. If Not, than you must be listening to Mahler. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
 Lighthearted and charming but hardly inspired music
By G.D.
Lighthearted, diverting music with a touch of the circus might be the best way of summing up this music; pleasantly amusing without the slightest hint at anything more profound. The prospect is mouth-watering on paper at least – these two collaborative works drew contribution from many of the most famous figures of French music during the first half of the twentieth century, stylistically centered around the anti-romantic music of Les Six. Unfortunately, however – and this has been my experience with such collaborative works in general – none of the composers are at anything remotely close to their most inspired here. They all seem to make an effort to create pieces that are representative of their individual styles, though in a manner that could make the full works succeed as unified, self-standing wholes, but there is little here that is actually memorable – good craftsmanship abound, however.
Les manes de la Tour was an effort by Les Six (except Durey) in 1921, although one of the original movements by Milhaud has gone missing and was replaced by the composer in 1971 (with no attempt to write it in his earlier style). There is some jolly fun here but even the best pieces, such as Auric’s Ritournelles, hardly invites repeated listening – thin gruel, in other words.
L’Eventail de Jeanne from 1927 is more stylistically varied, which is hardly surprising – the contributors were Ravel, Ferroud, Ibert, Roland-Manuel, Delannoy (would it be too much to ask to have the last two composers a little bit better represented on disc?), Roussel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Auric and Schmitt. The work was commissioned by the rich Jeanne Dubost, who ran a children’s ballet school, for her pupils, and while there is little here that could be considered great music there are several very fine numbers. Ravel’s Fanfare and Poulenc’s Pastourelle are relatively well known, but a case could certainly be made for Ibert’s insolently delightful Valse and, perhaps, Roussel’s surprisingly dark and dissonant Sarabande.
But again, there is no great music on this disc, and even fans of French music of the period wouldn’t really miss out on too much if they overlooked it. The Philharmonia Orchestra provides all the cheeky, neo-classical and crystal clarity the music requires and I have few complaints about Geoffrey Simon’s interpretive choices. The sound is clear and present, too, and the disc certainly deserves at least a modest recommendation.
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