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French composer, teacher and writer on music (1867-1950)
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Éventail (CD Review)
by Karl NehringRavel: Pièce en forme de Habanera; Saint-Saëns: Sonate, op.166; André Jolivet: Controversia*; Messiaen: Vocalise-Étude; Morceau de lecture; Ravel: Deux Mélodies hébraïques; Kaddisch; Milhaud: Vocalise-Étude; Debussy: Syrinx; Koechlin: Le repos de Tityre, op. 216/10; Jolivet: Chant pour les piroguiers de l'Orénoque; Debussy: Petite pièce; Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol; Robert Casadesus: Sonate, op.23. Heinz Holliger, oboe, oboe d’amore; Anton Kernjak, piano; Alice Belugou, harp*. ECM New Series 2694Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) has enjoyed a long and illustrious musical career. Many composers have written works for him, including Frank Martin, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutoslawski, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Isang Yun. A glance at the ECM website reveals that Éventail (“Fan”) is the latest of more that two dozen recordings he has made for the label in those roles of composer, conductor, and performer. Introducing his latest recording, Holliger writes: “The fan that opens like cautious butterfly wings, barely opening or timidly closing again, is the reflection of […]
2022-12-15 15:29:28
From live Tippett, locked-down Debussy and luminous Charles Koechlin to dazzling Szymanowski and dextrous Beethoven, we pick the outstanding releases of the past 12 monthsAfter nearly two years in which record companies were seriously compromised in what they could record, whether live or in the studio, things began to get back to normal in 2022. Whether the shifts in genres and repertoire – away from studio recordings of large-scale orchestral and operatic works and towards releases derived from live performances – were part of a gradual change in emphasis that had set in before the pandemic, though, or a direct consequence of it, was hard to determine.Certainly the cost of embarking on studio-made recordings of complete operas now looks likely to ensure such projects become permanent rarities. Instead, their places are being mostly filled by CDs and DVDs derived from staged and concert performances, sometimes directly warts and all, sometimes with […]
2022-08-10 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to music by Charles Koechlin. '... a near uncontrollable energy that almost brings Chaplin and Co back to life again.'
2022-05-26 14:00:04
Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony; Vers la Voûte Etoilée review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Basel SO/Ariane Matiakh(Capriccio)An elegant performance to match the beauty and refinement of this bafflingly neglected master of 20th-century music Among Charles Koechlin’s huge catalogue of works – well over 200 with opus numbers, and plenty more without – there are four symphonies. Like most of Koechlin’s music they are rarely performed, but his Seven Stars Symphony at least gets sporadic performances, and, as the Capriccio release proves, even occasional recordings. Having been rather disdainful of silent film, Koechlin realised the potency of the talkies in 1932 when he saw Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, and quickly became so enthralled by the new art form that the following year he composed the symphony, making each of its seven movements a portrait of a movie star. The Seven Stars Symphony is composed for huge forces, and the score is a dazzling display of Koechlin’s orchestral imagination, another reminder that as a master […]
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