Charles Koechlin, Heinz Holliger, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

Les Heures persanes op. 65

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CD/ Track	Title		Duration
1.1	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Sieste, avante le départ
1.2	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) La Caravane (rêve, pedant la sieste)
1.3	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) L'Escalade obscure
1.4	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Matin frais, dans la haute vallèe
1.5	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) En vue de la ville
1.6	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) À travers les rues
1.7	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Chant du soir
1.8	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Clair de lune sur les terrasses
1.9	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Aubade
1.10	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Roses au soleil de midi
1.11	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) À l'ombre, près de la fontaine de marbre
1.12	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Arabesques
1.13	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Les Collines, au coucher du soleil
1.14	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Le Conteur
1.15	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) La Paix du soir, au cimetière
1.16	Les Heures persanes op. 65 (Version orchestrale) Derviches dans la nuit

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: SCM Hänssler
series:: Charles Koechlin Reihe
Art.-No.:: 093.125.000
: Compact Disc
: 20 S. Booklet
Duration:: 58 min.
: February 2006
: *recommended retail price

“My dream has remained the same from the very begnning, a dream of imaginary far horizons – of the infnite, the mysterie of the night, and triumphant bursts of light.” Charles Koechlin

The unmistakable musical idiom of Les Heures persanes established Koechlin among the avant-garde of French composers of his time, freely using both »Polytonality « (using distant chords and keys at the same time) and »atonality« (harmonies and melodies unrelated to a main key). Koechlin’s singular orchestration acquires an inexhaustible variety of shades and colorings through the blending of instrumental timbres. It is this sonorous mixture of sounds from the magician’s workshop of Koechlin that makes his orchestral works so surprisingly transparent. LesHeures persanes was completed as a piano suite in 1919 and orchestrated in 1921 in the amazingly short space of under two weeks. However, the composer did not consider the piano version to be in any way provisional or unfinished, but rather intended the orchestration to reveal different aspects of the same ideas and enable the work to be seen from different perspectives.
Heinz Holliger is one of the most versatile and unusual musicians of our times. Born in Langenthal (Switzerland) in 1939, he studied oboe (with Emile Cassagnaud and Pierre Pierlot) and piano (with Sava Savoff and Yvonne Lefébure) in Bern, Paris and Basel, as well as composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez. After winning numerous irst prizes in international competitions, he began playing many concerts as oboist and made a name for himself around the world as a composer. With his extraordinary sensitivity and incomparable ear for a wide range of music, Heinz Holliger is one of the leading artists of today’s music, whether as soloist, composer or conductor. Heinz Holliger conducts all leading orchestras and ensembles around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony and many more.