CHARLES KOECHLIN - Seven Stars' Symphony Op.132 (1933) & Vers la voûte étoilée

[JP]

Greetings everyone. Here's a newly announced issue on Capriccio showcasing these seldom recorded and woefully underrated works by Koechlin, particularly the scarcely performed celestially incandescent Vers la voûte étoilé which populate the outlying frontiers of post-romanticism and ride the twilight wave crest of impressionism on the verge of coalescing into the mainstream musical conventions hailing from the second quarter of 20th century melodic modernism.

http://www.capriccio.at/charles-koechlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1Ww6JwPBg  (7 Stars Symphony - old EMI recording)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL14P35y8gk     (Vers la voûte étoilée - live concert performance)

Let's hope that Capriccio will subsequently record Koechlin's hitherto commercially unreleased 2 expansive symphonies in due course:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqjFx4Vlgc  (Sym 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQs8uvx3PAM  (Sym 2)

Best wishes to one and all.

[eschiss1]

I've heard the 2nd symphony, and I think for awhile we had an upload of it in our "downloads" section. I think it's good stuff and worth the wait (that it's mostly reorchestrations etc. of other music of his, often even much less-known other music of his, is aside from the point to me- the arrangements hold together as a thing in itself, etc.)