The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century
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The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century
Various Artists
[ CD ]
Release Date: Friday 17 October 2014
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Commencing with pioneers Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, this chronological double disc set moves forward to absurdist and dreamlike Dada and Surrealist compositions (Duchamp, Picabia, Desnos, Ribemont-Dessaignes), as well as the more conventional work of Jean Cocteau's celebrated 'Group des Six', and onwards to postwar electronics and musique concrète by Schaeffer, Henry and Varèse.
Works by a number of modern composers (Messiaen, Boulez, Greif, Catoire, Hersant) are also featured, several of these being world premiere recordings by noted French pianist Nicolas Horvath. With a generous playing time of 140 minutes, this double CD package contains an illustrated booklet with detailed historical notes.
Tracks:
1. Claude Debussy - Canope (1909)
2. Erik Satie - Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1903)
3. Guillaume Apollinaire - Le Pont Mirabeau (1913)
4. Marcel Duchamp - Musical Erratum (1913)
5. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - Le Nombril interlope (1920)
6. Jean (Hans) Arp - Strassburgkonfiguration (1931)
7. Francis Picabia - La Nourrice américaine (1920)
8. Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231 (1923)
9. Jean Cocteau - Les Voleurs d'Enfants (1929)
10. Robert Desnos - Relation d'un rêve (1938)
11-16. L'Album des Six (1920)
17-20. Dane Rudhyar - Tetragram #3 (Rebirth) (1927)
21. Olivier Greif - 2nd Hommage à Raymond Roussel (1971)
Disc 2:
1. Olivier Messiaen - Cantéyodjayâ (1949)
2-6. Pierre Schaeffer - Cinq études de bruits (1948)
7. Pierre Henry - La Voile d'Orphée (1953)
8. Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique (1958)
9. Pierre Boulez - Sonatine, pour flûte et piano (1946)
10. Jean Catoire - Opus 145 (1969)
11. Philippe Hersant - La lande (2001)
