Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)

[Roger Webb]

Thanks for tip - I listened on Spotify. I like Juliane Banse and have quite a few recordings - Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Brahms ... Othmar Schoeck. Also Wolf orchestra songs with Nagano. Very tempted. Presto have a download but no booklet.

Just seen this on ebay.....very rare!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186461727194

[gurnemanz]

Just seen this on ebay.....very rare!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186461727194

Thanks. I'll ponder options.

[Mandryka]

Does anyone have Pierre-Yves Artaud's Chants de Nectaire CD? If so, I'd love to hear it, hint hint.

[Mandryka]

Lovely performance of the violin sonata - but who's playing? And where's the quintet?

https://open.spotify.com/album/2wJUhCbjVJZBSewXUuRlkN

[Mandryka]

Has anyone seen Philippe Cathé's book on Koechlin? How is it? Does it have a decent index?

https://www.vrin.fr/livre/9782711623167/charles-koechlin#:~:text=Mais%20Koechlin%20n'était%20pas,s ociologie%20et%20même%20la%20politique.

[Roger Webb]

Has anyone seen Philippe Cathé's book on Koechlin? How is it? Does it have a decent index?

https://www.vrin.fr/livre/9782711623167/charles-koechlin#:~:text=Mais%20Koechlin%20n'était%20pas,s ociologie%20et%20même%20la%20politique.

No I've not seen that, I only know Robert Orledge's below, my local library had a copy which I took out a couple of times. I'd like to buy a copy as it's very well written, but as you see it's very expensive!

https://amzn.eu/d/4U5FN3t

[HighlandDougie]

Lovely performance of the violin sonata - but who's playing? And where's the quintet?

https://open.spotify.com/album/2wJUhCbjVJZBSewXUuRlkN

https://www.discogs.com/release/15018647-Charles-Koechlin-Sonate-Opus-64-Pour-Violon-Et-Piano-Quintette-Opus-80-Pour-2-Violons-Alto-Violoncel

[Mandryka]

https://www.discogs.com/release/1501...Alto-Violoncel

Thanks -- I thought the violin sonata there was rather good, and I'd quite like to hear what the make of the quintet.

[Mandryka]

No I've not seen that, I only know Robert Orledge's below, my local library had a copy which I took out a couple of times. I'd like to buy a copy as it's very well written, but as you see it's very expensive!

https://amzn.eu/d/4U5FN3t

Too expensive for me -- I saw good reviews of it though. I'm quite tempted to buy his book on Fauré though.

(By the way Jean Michel Nectoux's Fauré book is excellent, the big one - Les voix du clair-obscur -- I'm quite curious about his book on Debussy.)

[Roger Webb]

Too expensive for me -- I saw good reviews of it though. I'm quite tempted to buy his book on Fauré though.

(By the way Jean Michel Nectoux's Fauré book is excellent, the big one - Les voix du clair-obscur -- I'm quite curious about his book on Debussy.)

I have Nectoux's Fauré, but haven't read the Debussy. I like very much Stephen Walsh's 'Debussy - A Painter in Sound' though.

A couple of others that have come my way that I've enjoyed are, Brian Rees's 'Camille Saint-Saëns - A Life' and, another rarity, Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters, by Paul-André Bempéchat..........the latter a really authoritative account of a fascinating multi-facetted man.

[oliver sudden]

Does anyone have Pierre-Yves Artaud's Chants de Nectaire CD? If so, I'd love to hear it, hint hint.

So would I! Hint hint.

[Mandryka]

Fun factoid: The 1st Symphony is an orchestration of the 2nd Quartet.

[Roger Webb]

Fun factoid: The 1st Symphony is an orchestration of the 2nd Quartet.

Another fun factoid, Koechlin was a fine photographer - I've always wondered if that photo of steps in Montmartre was chosen because it is by him. He contributed photos to a book called The Ports of France, but it's evident that he used a plate camera for those....I have a copy of one of his of Morlaix harbour which is very fine. Oh, and he was a very serious astronomer!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/76139049922631886/

[Mandryka]

Orledge's book is here -- viewable for an hour at a time

https://archive.org/details/charleskoechlin10001orle/page/n277/mode/2up