Suzy Klein explores the percussive sounds of jungles in
Charles Koechlin's Les bandar-log; city life in Varese's Ameriques, and Walton's cantata of biblical proportions, Belshazzar's Feast.
A group of songs by
Charles Koechlin follows, including his unforgettable, "Si tu le veux." This soul-satisfying release concludes with Chausson's Chanson Perpetuelle, published posthumously after his death in a cycling accident in 1904.
Charles Koechlin, for example, speculated that "the most probable parents of Pelleas are Boris Godunov and Le Rhte" (p.
As a soloist and artistic director he was respected by important composers such as
Charles Koechlin, Raymond Chevreuille, and Marius Flothuis (whom he met in Sachsenhausen), and was a personal friend of Pierre Boulez.
The younger composer
Charles Koechlin mused, "Is not this admirable song the dream of an ageing man on a beautiful summer night--dreaming that his soul will go and dissolve into the great soul of the world?'' (12)
Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Opus 140, Volumes 1 and 2, by
Charles Koechlin, edited and arranged for piano by Robert Orledge.
On one she partners cellist Yo Yo Main a French recital (Sony), another is a solo recital of the Frenchmen
Charles Koechlin (Chandos) and a third is entitled Hot Music by Erwin Schulhoff.
A hint of some of the other generic issues is given by the composer
Charles Koechlin in his article on the melodie for Rohozinski's celebratory Cinquante ans de musique francaise de 1874 a 1925 (Paris, 1925).
As a whole,
Charles Koechlin: compositeur et humanists is successful in giving voice to the essential tenets of its subject.
After the death of the organist Charles Shatto on New Year's Day 1983, the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) inherited a substantial collection of manuscripts by Shatto himself, his wife Catherine Urner (1891-1942), and their composition teacher and mentor,
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950).
The highlight of chapter 6, "Polytonality, Counterpoint, and Instrumentation," is Kelly's emphasis on the often-overlooked composer
Charles Koechlin, whom she credits with inspiring Milhaud to grant instrumentation a crucial role in the polytonal juxtaposition of horizontal lines.
Robert Orledge addresses the knotty topic of Ravel's "exotic" (he is eminently qualified, of course; recall his fine studies of Debussy and
Charles Koechlin: Debussy and the Theatre [Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982] and
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): His Life and Works [Chur, Switzerland and New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1989]).