French Ballet Music of the 1920s

�The zany exuberance of Les mari�s, concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissue, as is L'�ventail, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration.� --BBC Music Magazine, May 2005 ****

�these pieces are full of imagination and fun. Geoffrey Simon and the Philharmonia Orchestra give a very good account of themselves and the Chandos recording is little short of spectacular. --The Penguin Complete Guide to Compact Discs

Penguin Guide Rosette Winner

I listened to these two on-act pastiche ballets on a broiling hot, humid June night when it was 84 degrees in my living room and said, �who needs air conditioning! This is better than AC!�� What gorgeous playing and sound in All saints� Church Tooting (a suburb of London). --American Record Guide

The zany exuberance of �Les mari�s� concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissued, as is �L�eventail�, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration. --BBC Music Magazine

All this music, Gallic in its unsentimental clarity, demands the cleanest and crispest playing, and this the Philharmonia Orchestra admirably supplies. --Gramophone

The performances under Geoffrey Simon are excellent. They deserve nothing but praise. --New York Times

The sessions evidently secured the right zippy response from the Philharmonia while also providing interestingly colourful sound quality. --Which Compact Disc