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Oum le Dauphin

arcadio | Warsaw, Poland | 06/24/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Oum le Dauphin which can be found on this album is the song of my childhood and one of the most spectacular pieces you can find.
If you like "The Big Blue" by Besson, this is the CD for you."

A sumptuous composer who seem to improve throughout the year

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 12/05/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If the term composer in the widest sense of the expression may be used as a creator of atmospheres and besides a way of living and feeling, Michel Legrand should be named among a very reduced list in which Vladimir Cosma, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour or Gilbert Becaud also figure.



Legrand is a chansonere, a fervent lyricist, an inspired composer for soundtrack films (Cherburg's umbrellas, Yennntl, Theme of 42' s Summer, or The windmills of your mind, are by themselves convincing testimonies that avail it).





His music contains humor, charm, nostalgia, poetry and candidness with idiosyncratic elegance and enraptured inspiration.



His incursions into jazz territory, makes me recall that old statement of Blas Pascal: "One is not great by being at one extreme, but touching both at the same time."

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