The Best of Martin Jones: Discover Jean Françaix

"Françaix’s mildly flirtatious music captures many of these games and tears in a beautiful evocation of courtship, by turns eager and shyly hesitant. All six of these miniatures (the six together last less than eleven and a half minutes) are subtle and attractive. The closing piece has a positive mood, illustrating the following words by Valéry: 'Voici la choeur ailé des illustres danseuses!… C’est un bosquet aux belles branches tout agitées par les brises de la musique!' (Here is the winged choir of illustrious dancers!… It is a grove of beautiful branches all agitated by the breezes of music!)." Glyn Pursglove, MusicWeb International