Claire Booth: Cocteau's Music - COMPACT DISCS

Claire Booth: Cocteau's Music - COMPACT DISCS

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Preorder Release Date: 06/26/2026
Title:

Cocteau's Music

Artist:

Claire Booth

Label:

Orchid Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060189569328

Genre:

Classical Vocal Crossover

Release Date:

2026-06-26

Number of Discs:

1

Jean Cocteau was many things: poet, playwright, artist, filmmaker, collaborator, self-inventor - each description fits, but none is sufficient. His work darts and pivots, one mask slipping as another appears. But beneath the surface, the same fixations recur, especially love, death, dependence and abandonment. This album stays close to his restlessness, touching melodrama, popular culture, prayer, aphorism, dance, cabaret and theatre, as styles collide, and the masks occasionally fall. At the centre of the program stands La Voix Humaine, Cocteau's searing study of love, loss and fractured communication, alongside a sequence of songs by Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Auric and others reflecting Cocteau's wide artistic circle, where high art and popular culture meet without hierarchy. The result is not a comprehensive survey, but rather a carefully drawn portrait, shaped by affection and curiosity.

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