Symph Orch Basel/Matiakh - Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars' Symphony Op. 132

Music by the marvelous, but unjustly underrated composer and �Aural Alchemist� Charles Koechlin is invariably a real discovery. �Koechlin can daub with notes as Seurat daubed with bright pigments on canvas; [he] could, whenever he wished, bathe his music in the impressionist glories of Debussy and Ravel or give it the delicacy of Faur� and then toughen it up with some Roussel-like grinding rhythms.� (Robert Reilly) He is an impressionist dreamboat. With a title like The Seven Stars� Symphony, and following so closely on the heels of the equally enchanting Vers la vo�te �toil�e (Toward the Vault of the Stars), one might think the work was some spectacular, colourist, celestial bonanza. In fact, it�s Koechlin�s ode to his favourite film stars � but no less bewitching for that.