NYTimes critic Harold Schonberg (d. 2003) said this in his book, Lives of the Great Composers: "It seems clear that [Poulenc] has emerged as the strongest and most individual member of Les Six. Nobody would have guessed it in the 1930s. The betting would have been on Milhaud or Honegger. [...] To the world Poulenc was the musical soft-shoe man, dancing away at his music-hall routines with not a care in the world, a grin permanently plastered on his face."
Honegger's music can be rough going but I can recommend some approachable works. The Concertino for piano is concise and peppered with jazz touches, as is the Sonatina for clarinet. Early on he wrote an oratorio (mostly vignettes connected by narration) on the life of King David from Hebrew Scriptures, published in both chamber and fully orchestrated versions. Later he wrote another huge oratorio called Joan of Arc at the Stake where the title character has vivid flashbacks on the day of her execution. Of the five Symphonies my favorite is #3, called "Liturgique," that juxtaposes the ills of war and mechanization with the serenity of the hereafter. Enjoy your explorations!
I recently started my channel and I could upload that one. Which performance do you like most? Fun fact, I am actually going to upload Rapetti's performance of Lyapunov's Lezghinka this weekend :)
The French Six were comprised of full-time, professional composers whereas The Russian Five included composers whose chief endeavors in life were of variously of diverse interests (Borodin was a chemist by profession). Nevertheless, as was mentioned, it is futile to compare two sets of composers separated by time and geography while acknowledging that, collectively, wonderful music emanated from both groups and indeed the commonality that brought the two diverse entities revolved around the respective efforts to create music that reflected Nationalistic characteristics. It is therefore not surprising that each of the ‘schools’ included in their ‘official’ names the geographic origins of its constituents.
Bravo! Subtile pianisme, polychrome et riche - mais pas tout a fait en style. Les Six étaient contre-impressionistes. Faudrait jouer plus "droit", sans rubato, sans agogiques, avec un souplesse Francais.
![Les Six: An Introduction [Les Six, Pt. 1/7]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/v3lU1KktDsE/mqdefault.jpg)
0:20 Prelude
1:53 Romance
4:48 Sarabande
7:02 Mazurka
8:44 Valse
10:45 Pastorale
NYTimes critic Harold Schonberg (d. 2003) said this in his book, Lives of the Great Composers: "It seems clear that [Poulenc] has emerged as the strongest and most individual member of Les Six. Nobody would have guessed it in the 1930s. The betting would have been on Milhaud or Honegger. [...] To the world Poulenc was the musical soft-shoe man, dancing away at his music-hall routines with not a care in the world, a grin permanently plastered on his face."
Honegger !!!
Wrong, it is Tailleferre. Poulenc is the most conventional of them all. Milhaud has the strongest individuality.
I've only heard of milhaud and poulenc. Now there's more composers to use for my French composer obsession
Honegger's music can be rough going but I can recommend some approachable works. The Concertino for piano is concise and peppered with jazz touches, as is the Sonatina for clarinet. Early on he wrote an oratorio (mostly vignettes connected by narration) on the life of King David from Hebrew Scriptures, published in both chamber and fully orchestrated versions. Later he wrote another huge oratorio called Joan of Arc at the Stake where the title character has vivid flashbacks on the day of her execution. Of the five Symphonies my favorite is #3, called "Liturgique," that juxtaposes the ills of war and mechanization with the serenity of the hereafter. Enjoy your explorations!
Durey is probably the least well-known of this group but of these compositions, I think I like his best.
11:40-11:53 those chords in the bass give me life
do know anything that sounds familiar? Kind of reminds me of lent by debussy or pagodes
Honegger, I LOVE HIS WORKS!
Prélude (1919) - Auric
Romance sans paroles, Op. 21 (1919) - Durey
Sarabande (1920) - Honegger
Mazurka (1914) - Milhaud
Valse in C (1919) - Poulenc
Pastorale (1919) - Tailleferre
This is wonderful. Magnifique!
Beautiful 🎼🎶🎵
_What kind of Hexameron is this?_
A french one
lmaoo
Sounds so french
play the waltz by Poulenc uwu
Really interesting thanks
Thank you!!
I was just thinking, Lyapunov's 1st piano concerto would be cool
I recently started my channel and I could upload that one. Which performance do you like most?
Fun fact, I am actually going to upload Rapetti's performance of Lyapunov's Lezghinka this weekend :)
The publisher put Milhaud's piece in common time, even though it's in 3/4?
Zeferden that’s embarrassing haha
The Valse tempo is so fast, it renders it absurd.
Let us start a futile and opinon-based argument, shall we? *Who was better: the Russian Five or the French Six?*
*cough* Russian Five *cough*
@@PianoScoreVids American Five
The French Six
@@neo-eclesiastul9386 You mean the Boston Six?
The French Six were comprised of full-time, professional composers whereas The Russian Five included composers whose chief endeavors in life were of variously of diverse interests (Borodin was a chemist by profession). Nevertheless, as was mentioned, it is futile to compare two sets of composers separated by time and geography while acknowledging that, collectively, wonderful music emanated from both groups and indeed the commonality that brought the two diverse entities revolved around the respective efforts to create music that reflected Nationalistic characteristics. It is therefore not surprising that each of the ‘schools’ included in their ‘official’ names the geographic origins of its constituents.
Bravo! Subtile pianisme, polychrome et riche - mais pas tout a fait en style. Les Six étaient contre-impressionistes. Faudrait jouer plus "droit", sans rubato, sans agogiques, avec un souplesse Francais.
Impressioniste ou romantique, classique ou antiromantique, la musique a toujours besoin de rubato, tel que un être vivant a besoin de respirer.
@@lorenzopone869 Certes, c'est le "souplesse", c'est a dire, une sorte de rubato, typiquement francais.