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Le groupe des Six - Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel; Milhaud - Le Boeuf sur le toit (1993)

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Date: 10 Apr 2013 13:33:19

Despite the group's somewhat inaccurate image as a tightly knit collective, there was, in fact, only one "collaborative" effort that involved all six members: a set of short piano pieces published in 1920 under the title Album des Six. A later would-be group effort was the ballet Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel. Staged in Paris by the Ballet Suedois on June 18, 1921, the work boasted a scenario by Cocteau and "musique des Six." The individual names of the composers were not used in the advertisements, but the Parisian cognoscenti were well enough aware of the parties involved in the production. Initially, Durey had agreed to the participate in the project but soon withdrew; Germaine Tailleferre wrote an additional number to fill the gap. The audience at the premiere was predictably split, both cheering and jeering filling the air in counterpoint. Even so, the ballet was something of a box office success, and further performances found a more accepting, even enthusiastic, audience. In 1927, Auric, Milhaud, and Poulenc contributed to a ballet called L'eventail de Jeanne, which also included music by Ravel, Albert Roussel, Florent Schmitt, Jacques Ibert, Marcel Delannoy, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, and Alexis Roland-Manuel.

For the 40th anniversary of Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel in 1961, the members of Les Six, along with Cocteau, were awarded the Medal of La Ville de Paris. Their music, which had scandalized and delighted the city decades before, had now taken on the evocative quality of a soundtrack, a sonic portrait of an era that was one of the most vibrant in the cultural history of Paris.

"Music critic Henri Collet chose six names absolutely arbitrarily, those of Auric, Durey, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and me, simply because we knew each other and we were pals and appeared on the same musical programmes, no matter if our temperaments and personalities weren't at all the same! Auric and Poulenc followed ideas of Cocteau, Honegger followed German Romanticism, and myself, Mediterranean lyricism!"
– Darius Milhaud

Tracklist:
Le Groupe des Six - Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel, ballet ("The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower")
01. Décor: Première plateforme de la Tour Eiffel 1:15
02. Auric: Ouverture (14 Juillet) 6:44
03. Milhaud: Marche nuptiale 2:54
04. Poulenc: Discours du Général (Polka) 3:03
05. Poulenc: La Baigneuse de Trouville 7:11
06. Tailleferre: La Valse des Dépéchés 5:31
07. Honegger: Marche funèbre 4:26
08. Tailleferre: Quadrille 7:43
09. Auric: Ritournelles 2:21
10. Milhaud: Sortie de la Noce 0:58
11. Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit 15:32

Personnel:
Daniel Mesguich, Herve Furic, Jean-Claude Casadesus - narrators
Fernand Iaciu - violin (11)
Orchestre national de Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus - conductor

Info:
Recorded live April 15-16, 1993 at the Palais de la Musique in Lille, France
First performed on the evening of June 18, 1921 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
Choreography and cover art design by Jean Cocteau

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