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Title: Auric the composer
Review: Georges Auric has long fascinated me as one of the also-rans of Les Six. He's the one that turned to writing movie music and running opera houses. This CD shows him as a composer, and it reveals him to be a fairly conventional post-romantic - tonal, with square phrased, danceable rhythms spiced by mild dissonance, brilliant orchestration, acidic brass, and a Cocteau scenario. There's a sense of pictorialism, motion, but no sharp characterization. A touch of Prokofiev with large dollops of Honegger or Poulenc, but not the wit, the melodic sense, the skewed tonality. These are highly energetic scores, impressive, but I understand better now why Auric is passed over. The performances are superb.
