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Les Six

Franziska Heinzen (soprano), Benjamin Mead (piano)

Les Six
The soprano, Franziska Heinzen, has a pleasant, light voice, though not at its best on loud, high notes, while the pianist, Benjamin Mead, is capable but unwilling to supply the charm Poulenc...

Les Six

Franziska Heinzen (soprano), Benjamin Mead (piano)

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The soprano, Franziska Heinzen, has a pleasant, light voice, though not at its best on loud, high notes, while the pianist, Benjamin Mead, is capable but unwilling to supply the charm Poulenc...

About

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 ""LAlbum 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 summarises the composers through their connection with various aesthetic ideas, different personalities and lifelong friendship. 100 years later, the LAlbum 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 CD in a special way.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Prélude
Track length1:24
No. 1, Nuit blanche
Track length2:17
No. 2, Enfance
Track length1:27
No. 3, Regrets
Track length2:27
No. 2, Romance sans paroles, Op. 21
Track length2:09
No. 1, La biche
Track length1:01
No. 2, Arrêtons-nous
Track length1:20
No. 3, Eau qui se presse
Track length1:25
No. 4, Comme un verre de Venise
Track length1:06
No. 5, Un cygne
Track length1:31
No. 6, La passante d'été
Track length1:12
No. 7, La fontaine
Track length2:45
No. 3, Sarabande, H. 26
Track length1:31
No. 1, Jeanne
Track length0:37
No. 2, Adèle
Track length0:42
No. 3, Cécile
Track length0:51
No. 4, Irène
Track length0:42
No. 5, Rosemonde
Track length1:05
No. 1, Élegie
Track length0:53
No. 2, Danseuse
Track length0:41
No. 3, Chanson
Track length0:27
No. 4, Adieu
Track length0:41
No. 4, Mazurka
Track length1:03
No. 1, Fumée
Track length0:44
No. 2, Fête de Bordeaux
Track length0:47
No. 3, Fête de Montmartre
Track length0:53
No. 5, Valse in C, FP 17
Track length1:43
No. 1, Tu vois le feu du soir
Track length4:00
No. 2, Je nommerai ton front
Track length1:23
No. 6, Pastorale. Enjoué
Track length1:29
No. 1, Non, non, la fidélité
Track length1:00
No. 2, Souvent un air de vérité
Track length1:11
No. 4, Vrai Dieu, qui m'y confortera
Track length1:55
No. 5, On a dit mal de mon ami
Track length0:58
No. 6, Je vous donne, avec grand plaisir
Track length1:01

Awards and reviews

May 2021

The soprano, Franziska Heinzen, has a pleasant, light voice, though not at its best on loud, high notes, while the pianist, Benjamin Mead, is capable but unwilling to supply the charm Poulenc asks for in his ‘Valse’.
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