Charles Koechlin - Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book) - Staatsphilharmonie Rhineland-Pfalz - Leif Segerstam, conductor
EAC | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Covers | 1 CD | 247 MB | Filesonic + Fileserve
XX Century Classical | Released: 1993 | Label: Marco Polo
Though his reputation as a composer has remained rather isolated in the decades since his death, Charles Koechlin enjoyed a prominent place in the French music scene in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1918, Satie welcomed him into Les nouveaux jeunes, a short-lived collective of young French composers (including Roussel and Milhaud) that ultimately metamorphosed into Les Six. In his lifetime, Koechlin was more widely known for his work as a theorist and teacher than for his own music. Harmony and instrumental color are generally at the fore in Koechlin's music, which is perhaps most effective in the way it creates exquisitely shaded atmospheres.