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It's possible, but, because of its tremendous intellectual complexity, it is not necessarily easy to love Charles Koechlin's music. Hänssler Classics should be commended for their series of recordings of Koechlin's music in general, and for this disc combining two of his most imposing orchestral scores: Les Bandar-log and Offrande musicale sur le non de BACH. The former is a 20-minute scherzo taking as its subject matter an episode from Kipling's Jungle Book involving monkeys and music; apparently, if you put enough monkeys in a room long enough, they'll create everything from tonality to atonality to polytonality. The latter is a nearly 50-minute-long compendium of virtually anything and everything that can be done contrapuntally with the pitches B flat, A, C, and B natural (B-A-C-H in German musical nomenclature). Both works require listeners' undivided attention. Without it, it's too easy to get lost in Les Bandar-log's multiple monkey fugues, and in the Offrande musicale's manifold mazes of counterpoint. Attentive listeners, though, will be rewarded with some of the most inventive and entertaining music written in the twentieth century. These performances by Heinz Holliger leading the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart open up the details of the scores: the intelligent design, the luminous colors, the wide-ranging emotions, and the almost unfathomable intricacies. Captured in richly detailed, warmly sonorous digital sound, this disc may help revive interest in Koechlin's work.
© TiVo
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Les bandar-log, Op. 176 "Scherzo des singes" (Charles Koechlin)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Offrande musicale sur le nom de BACH, Op. 187 (Charles Koechlin)
Michael Korstick, Piano - Bernard Haas, Organ - Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Charles Koechlin, Composer - Heinz Holliger, Conductor
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Michael Korstick, Piano - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Michael Korstick, Piano - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Bernard Haas, Organ - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Michael Korstick, Piano - Bernard Haas, Organ - Christine Simonin, Ondes Martenot - Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger, Conductor - Charles Koechlin, Composer
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
Album Description
It's possible, but, because of its tremendous intellectual complexity, it is not necessarily easy to love Charles Koechlin's music. Hänssler Classics should be commended for their series of recordings of Koechlin's music in general, and for this disc combining two of his most imposing orchestral scores: Les Bandar-log and Offrande musicale sur le non de BACH. The former is a 20-minute scherzo taking as its subject matter an episode from Kipling's Jungle Book involving monkeys and music; apparently, if you put enough monkeys in a room long enough, they'll create everything from tonality to atonality to polytonality. The latter is a nearly 50-minute-long compendium of virtually anything and everything that can be done contrapuntally with the pitches B flat, A, C, and B natural (B-A-C-H in German musical nomenclature). Both works require listeners' undivided attention. Without it, it's too easy to get lost in Les Bandar-log's multiple monkey fugues, and in the Offrande musicale's manifold mazes of counterpoint. Attentive listeners, though, will be rewarded with some of the most inventive and entertaining music written in the twentieth century. These performances by Heinz Holliger leading the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart open up the details of the scores: the intelligent design, the luminous colors, the wide-ranging emotions, and the almost unfathomable intricacies. Captured in richly detailed, warmly sonorous digital sound, this disc may help revive interest in Koechlin's work.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:15
- Main artists: Michael Korstick Florian Hoelscher Bernhard Haas Christine Simonin Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR Heinz Holliger
- Composer: Charles Koechlin
- Label: SWR Classic
- Area: France
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music
- Period: Modern Style
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16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
(C) 2009 SWR Classic (P) 2009 SWR Classic
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