Emily Beynon, Andrew West - L'Album des Six: The Complete Works of 'The Six' for Flute and Piano (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:22 | 239 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDH55386
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:22 | 239 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDH55386
'Les Six' (so named in 1920 by critic Henri Collet) hit the classical music scene with almost the same outrageous force with which the punk movement slammed into popular music in the 1970s and early '80s. It consisted of a group of six composers working in France: Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre and Louis Durey. Their music was largely a reaction against Impressionism and Wagnerism and incorporated the ideas of Satie and Cocteau with the popular styles of the time: French vaudeville, American jazz and café music.