Finally, a fine compeoser gets his due!

Ever since I performed his beautiful set of choral chansons a few years
ago, I have loved the music of Georges Auric.  One of the famous Les Six,
it has always saddened me that he was not better represented on disc.  His
music is fresh and delicous and full of wonderful melodic invention and
color.

Chandos have just released a significant disc which helps to remedy
the lack of notice for this fine composer.  Chandos 9774 is a splendid
collection of film score excerpts performed by the BBC Philharmonic under
the baton of Rumon Gamba.

Auric composed the scores for many films, including some of the most
memorable British cinema of the late forties through the fifties.  This
disc samples from ten of them, including the famous song from Moulin Rouge,
which was a major international hit, and was made particularly popular in
the US by Jo Stafford and Felicia Sanders.

This disc is full to the brim with taut and sparkling orchestral playing,
recorded in crystal clear sound by the Chandos team.  Auric paints sound
pictures that are crisp and clear and are devoid of Debussian mists and
shadows.

Much of this composer's output was for films, a career which began
in earnest in 1945 when he was selected as a last resort by film maker
Gabriel Paschal when he couldn't secure the services of Britten, Walton
or Prokofiev.  What a windfall for the rest of us that Mssr.  Paschal had
such difficulties!  Auric went on to score many American films including
Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse starring Jean Seberg and David Niven.

This is a must have for lovers of film music and it will be of interest
to those seeking some interesting and unusual orchestral fare.  Readers
are cordially invited to jump off the trodden path and experience this
delightful recording.  Record companies and performing groups are strongly
encouraged to perform and record more of this fine and unjustly neglected
composer's music.

Kevin Sutton