Jacques Castérède’s distinguished career was centred in Paris, but with musical roots in the early 20th-century traditions of neo-Classicism and Les Six—the wide variety of scope and intent in his work was never meant to compete with the radical avant-garde. The balletic Flûtes en vacances has become one of his most popular pieces, while Ciels (‘Skies’) was a competition piece for the Conservatoire. The colours in Trois moments musicaux d’après Corot depict paintings in sound while the Sonatine de Mai is more neo-Classical in mood.