Koechlin: Magicien Orchestrateur – review

Wegener/Hoelscher/Stuttgart SWR RSO/Holliger(Hänssler)Charles Koechlin's list of original works includes well over 200 opus numbers, but he was also a prodigious and skilled orchestrator, regularly transcribing not only his own chamber pieces but music by other composers, too. The latest release in Hänssler's slowly accumulating Koechlin survey is devoted to the best known of those transcriptions, the earliest of them a seven-movement suite from his straightforward orchestration of the inciden...

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