GEORGES AURIC (1895-1983): Suite from Le peintre et son modèle, JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962): Felice Nanteuil (orch. Félix Chardon), FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963): Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel, Overture, ALBERT ROUSSEL (1869-1937): Petit Suite, Op. 39, CHARLES KOECHLIN (1867-1950): Chorale sur le nom de Fauré, DARIUS MILHAUD (1892-1974): 3 rag caprices, Op. 78, MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937): Pavane pour une infante défunte.

Description: An hour's worth of mostly otherwise-unavailable early 20th century French music with the Auric and Ibert works being the longest (15 and 11 minutes respectively); Auric's is menacing, goofy, abrasive, thunderous and just plain weird at times, making you wonder what the dancing must have looked lit while Ibert's was originally a piano piece dedicated to a person with that name (not the place). Chamber Philharmonic of Bohemia;  Douglas Bostock.  Original 1998 Classico release.