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Thursday, January 5, 2023

Charles Koechlin - Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Michael Korstick)


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Composer: Charles Koechlin
  • Les heures persanes, Op. 65

Michael Korstick, piano
Date: 2009
Label: Hänssler

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Charles Koechlin (27 November 1867 – 31 December 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. Koechlin was enormously prolific. He was highly eclectic in inspiration and musical technique, and his music was distinct from his contemporaries. He was a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. Despite his lack of worldly success, Koechlin was apparently a loved and venerated figure in French music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koechlin

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Michael Korstick (born April 30, 1955 in Cologne, Germany) is a German pianist. Korstick received his first piano lessons at the age of 9, and subsequently studied with Jürgen Tröster, Hans Leygraf, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Sascha Gorodnitzki and Jeaneane Dowis. His repertoire consists of more than 120 works for piano and orchestra and a large number of solo works from all periods, including the complete sonatas of Beethoven. Korstick has made more than 50 CD recordings so far, winning several prizes. He lives and works in Linz, Austria, where he is a full professor at Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Korstick

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  1. Ronald DoJanuary 5, 2023 at 1:58 AM

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  2. SchubertianDecember 12, 2023 at 2:16 PM

    Thanks a lot for all these great recordings by Koechlin, Ronald!
    Ronald has made two alternatives available of "Les heures persanes", one by van Raat, and this one by Michael Korstick. Since I don't see a review for the latter, I'd like to briefly comment after listening to both. They are almost like polar opposites. Korstick playes "Les heures" as a piece of impressionistic music, with great sensitivity and sensuality and awareness of tone color, but still clearly, as if it were from Debussy. In contrast, van Raat plays them structurally oriented and rhythmical, constantly propelling them forward. In his interpretation, they are in a line from Stravinsky to Boulez and contemporary music. Comparing the two to more famous pianists, it seems to me that Korstick plays more like Benedetti Michelangeli and van Raat more like Pollini. Anyways, these are my two cents. These recordings will respond well to different preferences and tastes.

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