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Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes

Kathryn Stott

Classical - Released April 1, 2003 | Chandos

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Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

French Music - Released September 12, 2005 | RCA Records Label

Les heures persanes

Ralph Van Raat

Classical - Released April 5, 2011 | Naxos

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Charles Koechlin may not be a well-known composer, but anyone who enjoys the music of Olivier Messiaen should get to know Koechlin. Les heures persanes, one of his better known works, is a suite of character pieces written between 1916 and 1919. Throughout the pieces are hints of what Messiaen would write later in his piano works, such as the Visions de l'Amen and the Vingt Régards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Les heures depicts scenes of Persia -- although more landscapes than life studies -- with titles similar to those of Debussy's preludes, (e.g., "Clair de lune sur les terrasses" and "Les collines au choucher du soleil"). The harmonies are more advanced than Debussy, and in places, for example in No. 4 "Matin frais, dans la haute vallée," sound exactly like Messiaen. Nos. 14 and 16 have a brilliant intensity similar to Messiaen. No. 6, "A travers les rues" is more backward looking with lush, flowing lines evocative of Fauré's (one of Koechlin's teachers) writing, but with freer harmonies. Here, van Raat allows it to breathe almost like a jazz improvisation. Van Raat treats all the music very organically, adding nuanced color without it seeming at all like work. It streams very easily through his fingers, letting the slower movements become meditative to an extent, again creating a link to Messiaen, specifically his spirituality. Van Raat naturally tempers the music; the more active sections are never painfully intense, nor do the slower ones tend to inertia. This performance of Les heures would definitely suit as an introduction to Koechlin or as a bridge between Debussy or Fauré and Messiaen for anyone looking to expand the scenery of their musical countryside. © TiVo
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KOECHLIN: Les Heures persanes, Op. 65bis

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

Classical - Released February 6, 2006 | SWR Classic

Hänssler Classic's Charles Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes is only the second recording made of Koechlin's impressive orchestral suite. Composed for the piano in 1919, Koechlin orchestrated all 16 movements of the set in a little less than two weeks in 1921. While Heinz Holliger may not have been the first to record the work -- Leif Segerstam beat him to the draw for Marco Polo in 1989 -- but Holliger was the first to perform it entirely with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Berlin. This recording with Holliger directing the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR is a later recording, made in 2004. The work itself is a highly appealing, low-key, and atmospheric suite that is vaguely evocative of a "Persian" aura initially inspired by romance novels. It does not resort to simulations of Arabic scales and it is highly transparent, though Koechlin's taste in harmonic and orchestral color is obviously impressionistic. As it is a 16-part suite, any kind of standard formal development scheme is out the window, and the mood is prevailingly quiet and mysterious with only very few eruptions of emotion. Nevertheless, it is a flexible structure that can be appreciated in short stretches or in the long form as a kind of otherworldly background music. Holliger's interest in the piece may be piqued in that it has a lot of great parts for his instrument, the oboe, and the winds are better handled here than in Segerstam's recording. Segerstam's version is a bit more direct and up front than Holliger's Hänssler, which is airy, distant, and quiet. However, this ambiance seems to serve the music a little better, as Segerstam's recording is not very transparent and rather bumbling at times. This release should be your top of the line choice for Les Heures Persanes, a work that should appeal strongly to those who like the quiet parts of Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark or Dominic Frontiere's music for The Outer Limits. © TiVo

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