Day 1
Koechlin: Les Bandar-Log op 176.
BBC symphony orchestra
Antal Dorati
Les Bandar-Log is one of the symphonic poems by Koechlin based on Kipling's The Jungle Book.
I don't think that I have heard a note of Koechlin before - if I have I don't remember it. I enjoyed this piece, particularly the opening section for its many and varied orchestral colours. It was more modern than I had expected - I thought that Koechlin would have been more of a late-romantic composer. It was difficult at times to know whether some of this music was intended as parody - the Bandar Log are the Kaals monkeys and certainly there are a lot of monkey-like sounds.
I think that based on this Koechlin is worth exploring a bit more - perhaps the best place to go next is the seven stars symphony - nothing to do with astronomy but portraits of seven Hollywood starts from the golden age of the cinema.
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