Charles Koechlin: Oboe Sonata, Op. 58 (1911-1916)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- 00:00 - I. Allegro moderato: Très modéré mais sans lenteur
07:17 - II. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
13:47 - III. Andante: Très calme, presque adagio
18:26 - VI. Final: Allegro moderato, sans traîner
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Oboe: Stefan Schilli
Piano: Oliver Triendl
Year of Recording: 2015
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"Koechlin was already accomplished on the hunting horn when he bought an oboe in March 1893 -- he was 15 -- and began to take lessons. He also played a saxhorn (included by Berlioz in Les Troyens) and horn, and, of course, the piano, at which he was sufficiently adept to accompany his symphonically conceived songs and to take the piano part in his less-demanding sonatas. Shattery recordings from 1947 remain of Koechlin playing two pieces from his cycle L'Ancienne maison de campagne -- not difficult but imbued with poetry. The point to notice is his proclivity for melody instruments early on. The piano is the instrument of harmony, par excellence, and, following Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde awash in the "sea of harmony," much Romantic music is harmonically conceived. While Koechlin's polytonal harmony and writing in open intervals of a fifth or fourth are some of the most original features of his mature manner, his works are linear in conception -- often, composition meant writing the melodic line for an entire composition first and independently working out harmonic, modulatory, and contrapuntal elaborations. The upshot is a fluent polyphony, which, while seldom abandoning tonality, seems to shift in and out of harmonic focus. Nor are Koechlin's pieces formless -- form is dictated by his material -- but taken with his utter lack of interest in sonata form, the "tout ensemble of the whole" is uniquely disconcerting. Add to these failures to meet ordinary expectations Koechlin's predilection for a vein of Romanticism closer to fairytale than to the lurid tropes of eroticism, the "Romantic agony" of such things as Strauss' Salome or Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, and Koechlin's music becomes a special taste -- though one well worth acquiring. The Oboe Sonata, for instance, harks back to the vision of Virgilian pastoral informing many of Koechlin's compositions -- especially those for oboe, oboe d'amore, and cor anglais. Though not essential to one's enjoyment, the program suggested by the movement titles lends a meaningful overlay to listening -- the opening Allegro moderato is subtitled "The earth, work in the fields"; the bitonally hallucinatory Scherzo, "a dance of fauns in the forest"; the elegiac Andante, "evening in the country"; the final Allegro moderato, "the country house," a rippling evocation of childhood frolics searchingly recalled in L'Ancienne maison de campagne. Composed between 1911 and 1916, the Oboe Sonata received its premiere by Koechlin's erstwhile oboe instructor, M.L. Bleuzet, and his wife on March 18, 1922, at Paris' Salle Érard." (Adrian Corleonis)
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i first heard this piece when i was watering my big backyard tropical garden, it was sunset,mom was out on the back patio,listening. she had alzheimer's as it was not bad then, i remembered looking at her smiling. then the last part REALLY hit me good, she would be leaving the earth soon, and i would be her friend,not her son at her departure. the amazing melancoly,the beautiful 12 tone beauty was a vision for me,it kept me still knowing the inevitable. and it's still beautiful as ever
This is the kind of music I envision that plays while sitting by the fireplace with a good book in the dark of night during the winter season.
Musique pareille à l'onde pure...limpide et ondoyante. Merci infiniment. ❤
Oh my GOD, that 3rd movement !!!
yes really beautiful. What a shame this composer is not more well known.
@@christianwagenseil9621 Sadly, he is better known today for his rather famous textbook on orchestration than as a composer! However, he was widely respected during his time and is still quite well-known in France. I have a score vid of his violin sonata on my channel, but I would also highly recommend checking out his orchestral works, in my opinion every bit the equal of Ravel in terms of orchestration :)
@@towardthesea_ -- Observed & Noted, many thanks.....from Mexico City!
I love this piece so much and chose it as my Master thesis research even there is no Chinese resources about it to obtain my degree.
Beautiful!
Meisterhaft wunderschön!
beautiful oboe playing !
I love this oboe sonata so much. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask your permission to share the video to China's video website Bilibili for the reason that UA-cam is prohibited in China. I will give sources of the original website. Thanks.
I'm confused, it says "oboe sonata" in the title but "English Horn: Stefan Schilli" in the description
Thanks for letting me know, just fixed it!
Wait this is also Preston wth
EXACTLY! Never been done before.....BRAVO, Maestro, from Mexico City!
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