New Composers
REMEMBER first coming across the name of Charles Koechlin in a book on contemporary composers by Wilfred Mellers, and later reading Koechlin’s own study of his beloved master and teacher, Gabriel Fauré, But I had never heard a note of his own music until the recent YC broadcast of The Abbot in a Music from Overseas session. Difficult at first to catch on to, as so much modern French music is, this clearly deeply felt,
mystical work gained in appeal as it progressed. I found myself thinking of both Wagner and Fauré during this composition for chorus, organ and orchestra, and feeling that, as with their music, the apparent amorphousness of Koechlin’s would, on closer acquaintance, resolve itself into a memorable pattern. There was a sense of quiet exaltation and contemplative stillness at its heart, things rare in modern music. These Music from Overseas programmes are introducing us to many contemporaries, like Koechlin, of whom we have merely heard. Not all grateful listening they prove, but there are many delights there, and the introductory comments, informative without being too wordy, give just the right amount of help to
enjoy tnem.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 21
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194New Composers New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 21
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