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 ...
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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...
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