Actart Concert: The Flute of Charles Koechlin 1867-1950
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classical music
Charles Koechlin remains one of the great secrets of French music. A composer, theorist, and orchestrator of rare independence, he had a unique affection for the flute. The instrument becomes an inner voice, able to whisper, meditate, dream, and sometimes burst into light. Nothing displays this better than Les Chants de Nectaire, a cycle for solo flute inspired by the figure of a wise old flutist taken from French literature. This collection offers miniatures of almost ascetic poetry. Koechlin explores modes, subtle nuances, flexibilities in phrasing, and the art of silence. Lines seem born from the breath itself: floating rhythms, free melismas, registers used with delicacy demanding rare inner listening from the performer. In Koechlin's chamber music, the flute acts as a guide: outlining horizons, ushering in nights, evoking scents of the Orient and modal colors. Though unjustly unknown, perhaps because he belonged to no school and valued discretion, for those who listen closely, Koechlin's flute opens up a world: an art of nuance, patience, and light, well worth rediscovering.
Good to know
Carlo Jans (flute, small flute and flute in G), Emmanuel Teutsch (oboe), Vania Lecuit (violin), Ilan Schneider (viola), Stéphane Giampellegrini (cello), Leo Halsdorf (horn), Dina Nimax (harp), Katrin Reifenrath (piano).
Program :
- Suite in quartet (1911-1915) for flute, violin, viola and piano
- Songs of Nectaire (1944) for solo flute
- Sonata Op. 52 (1911-1913) for flute and piano
- Funerary stele op 224 (1950) for a flautist playing piccolo, concert flute and G flute
- Two nocturnes, op. 32 bis for flute, horn and harp
- Quintet "Primavera" (1936) for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp
Where does it take place?
Conservatoire de Luxembourg
33 Rue Charles Martel
Luxembourg
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