Unsung Heroes: Charles Koechlin and Magic of The Jungle Book
Joanna Lumley & The Maestro
Bauer Media
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week's mini episode comes to you as a pair. Stephen and Joanna discuss their favourite 'unsung heroes' - this time focusing on the strange and absorbing late works of Charles Koechlin. 'Les Bandar-Log' is part of a cycle of symphonic poems based on Kipling's Jungle Book, completed in 1940. The score touches on a range of early 20th-century styles, from Debussyan impressionism to 12-note technique, but somehow welds all the tongue-in-cheek references into a dazzling whole.
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| 0:57.6 | Welcome to Joanna and the Maestro. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, Meestro. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to this mini episode, which is coming to you in a pair. |
| 1:10.2 | Today we're talking about unsung heroes, and this isn't because they don't deserve to be sung about. |
| 1:11.5 | It's just that they seem to be left out. Stevie, I've got in front of me the Dictionary of Composers, and their music, |
| 1:16.3 | which was published in 1978, and the two names that you wish to focus on don't even feature |
| 1:22.4 | in this. And it's extraordinary. These two people are Charles Kirkland and Lily Boulanger. |
| 1:29.3 | Will you tell me a bit about them? I know that the late 19th century and that Charles Kirkland was born in 1867 and Lily in 1893. |
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