
This is just incredibly beautiful, sensual music. Although billed as “vocal works with orchestra”, conductor Heinz Holliger offers two orchestral works: the dreamy and mysterious
Volume 7 of Profil’s Günter Wand Edition finds the conductor traveling far afield from his standard repertoire (Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Bruckner). He’s mostly able
Okay, I’m going to try to describe this, Charles Koechlin’s final major orchestral work, completed in 1946, premiered in 1949 (the year before his death),
It’s always satisfying to be able to welcome a new recording of music by this neglected master, and this one has a lot going for
Charles Koechlin likened the 16 piano pieces encompassing his cycle Les Heures Persanes to an imaginary voyage where the listener must be prepared to travel
This anthology of Charles Koechlin’s chamber music for flute, clarinet, and piano symbolically opens with a Pastorale (1917-18) and ends with a Stèle funéraire (1950).
With more than 200 opus numbers in his catalog, Charles Koechlin counts among the most prolific composers of the 20th century. Along with a large