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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) Anthologie de l’Oeuvre Enregistree 1. Parade Prelude du Rideau Rouge 2. Le Buste 3. No Man's Land 4. Le Theatre Grec 5. Nuit Blanche ou Pigeon Terreur 6. A l'encre Bleue 7. Martingale 8. Parade le Prestidigitateur Chinois 9. Les Mauvais Eleves 10. Le Modele des Dormeurs 11. Le Camarade 12. Parade LA Petite Fille Americaine 13. Le Theatre de Jean Cocteau 14. Les Voleurs d'Enfants 15. La Toison d'Or 16. Le Fils de l'Air 17. Parade Ragtime du Paquebot 18. La Machine Infernale 19. Parade Les Acrobates 20. Anna La Bonne 21. Parade Suite au Prelude du Rideau Rouge 22. Attendre 23. Mensonge 24. Mes Soeurs, N'Aimez Pas Les Marins 25. Arbre de Noel 1946 26. La Dame de Monte Carlo 27. Valse Langoureuse 28. Mon Premier Voyage/Autour du Monde en 80 Jours 29. Crucifixion 30. La Voix Humaine 31. Nuit de Noel 32. Jean Cocteau Presente Edith Piaf 33. Le Bel Indifferent 34. Jean Cocteau Vous Parle 35. Poemes Extraits de Plain-Chant 36. La Difficulte d'Etre 37. Les Parents Terribles 38. La Machine Infernale 39. Preface des Maries de La Tour Eiffel 40. Les Maries de La Tour Eiffel 41. Presentation du Groupe des Six 42. Discours de Reception a l'Academie Francaise Fred Kiriloff, réalisateur sonore de Jean Cocteau présente un coffret de quatre CD d'enregistrements historiques : Parade, Théâtre de Jean Cocteau, Les voleurs d'enfants, La Toison d'or, La machine infernale, La voix humaine, Présentation du Groupe des Six, Le bel indifférent, Les parents terribles, Le discours de réception à l'Académie Française, mais aussi des inédits : L'arbre de No‘l, Crucifixion, Nuit de No‘l, Préface des Mariés de la Tour Eiffel... L'univers du poète entre en symbiose avec Francis Poulenc, Eric Satie, Marianne Oswald, Suzy Solidor, Edith Piaf, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Diaghilev, Picasso... Jean Cocteau's sound producer Fred Kiriloff have compiled a four-CD boxed set of historic Cocteau recordings, including Parade, Jean Cocteau's Theatre, Les Voleurs d'Enfants (The Abductors), La Toison d'Or (The Golden Fleece), La Machine Infernale (The Infernal Mechanism), La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), Presentation of the Group of Six, Le Bel Indifférent (The Callous Beau), Les Parents Terribles, Reception Speech at the Académie Française. Plus previously unissued items, such as: L'Arbre de No‘l (The Christmas Tree), Crucifixion, Nuit de No‘l (Christmas Night) and the Preface to Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower Wedding). Cocteau's world involved collaborations with Francis Poulenc, Eric Satie, Marianne Oswald, Suzy Solidor, Edith Piaf, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Diaghilev, Picasso and more. Jean Cocteau Artist, filmmaker, and writer though he was, Jean Cocteau protested that he was at all times a poet. A cutting-edge artist and a celebrity, he was associated with other prominent figures of his time. His writing attracted the interest of musicians; several used him as a lyricist or librettist, most notably Stravinsky, Poulenc, Daniel Biro, Guy Sacre, and Louis Durey. Born to parents of wealth, Cocteau was confronted at age ten by his father's suicide. He was sent to a private school in 1900, but was expelled four years later, thereupon fleeing to Marseilles to live under a false name in a district of prostitutes. When returned by police, he was placed in the home of an uncle. A short-lived affair with 30-year-old actress Madeleine Carlier preceded Cocteau's association with actor Edoard de Max. The youth, then but 18, was encouraged by Max to write and, to that end, the actor engaged a theater for the first readings of Cocteau's poetry. A meeting with ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1909 brought a request for a work in that genre: the result was Le Dieu Bleu. During this period, Cocteau also met Stravinsky; in 1914, he visited the composer in Switzerland. Serving as an ambulance driver in WWI, Cocteau fell in with a group of marines and was arrested before being released to civilian life. A meeting with Pablo Picasso in 1917 led to Rome and a collaboration with Diaghilev. For Parade, Erik Satie contributed the music, Leonide Massine the choreography, Picasso the sets, and Cocteau the text. The May 1917 Paris production proved a fiasco, but a more favorable response greeted a revival a few years later. After the end of the war, Cocteau founded a publishing house and formed an intimate relationship with 15-year-old writer Raymond Radiguet. The youth's death in 1923 drove Cocteau to the use of opium. Following his recovery, Cocteau embarked upon an extended period of creativity, during which such works as Orphée, Les Enfants Terribles, and La Machine Infernal were completed. A lapse into opium addiction once more was overcome largely through the ministrations of actor Jean Marais, who starred in several of Cocteau's films. In 1955, Cocteau was elected to the French Academy. -- All Music Guide RELATED RESOURCES: Jean Cocteau in UbuWeb Film UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | CENTRO | EPC | WFMU