Forbidden Games: Variations

Composer: LAGOYA, Alexandre
  • Variations sur le theme anonyme “Jeux interdits” is a track from Lagoya’s 1995 album Bizet: Carmen Dances.
  • The theme is an anonymous Romance for guitar which became famous for its use in the 1952 French film, Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games).1
  • Story: the movie is about two French children trying to cope with the reality of death during the German Blitzkrieg of Paris.2

Sources

  1. John W. Duarte, “Conjugal Bliss in Several Guises,” liner notes to Bizet: Carmen Dances, Alexandre Lagoya, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Silito, Philips 446002-2, CD, 1995.
  2. Peter Matthews, “Forbidden Games: Death and the Maiden,” The Criterion Collection (Dec. 6, 2005), accessed November 5, 2019, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/408-forbidden-games-death-and-the-maiden.

Cut IDs

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