Charles Koechlin - Les Bandar-Log "Scherzo of the Monkeys" (1940)

00:00 Soft, luminous chords as open woodwind melodies enter 02:14 A sudden "eruption of the monkeys": rapid arpeggios in ever changing rhythm (2:40 lighter and more graceful) 03:17 A comedically heavy and overdramatic dirge, interspersed with the rapid figurations of before 04:57 "Atonal" - A 12-tone parody comes into the mix 07:01 "Return to Bach" - Parodic fugue treatments, polytonal and chromatic 08:57 "Response of the forest" - the chaos ends abruptly, replaced by profound silence: eerie and mysterious percussion (10:00 ghostly violin solo in harmonics) 10:25 "Atonality in the sweetness" - haunting strings 11:10 The fugue themes subtly reenter, colored by lithe figurations, and gradually pick up energy (13:47) into... 14:30 Harsh, biting brass chords heralding a violent, "sparkling and merciless" climax at 15:10 15:52 The harshness falls away and opens up to the peace of the introduction, now extraordinarily warm and bright by comparison (16:53 echos of the energy of before) Composer: Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (November 27, 1867 – December 31, 1950) Orchestra: Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marc Albrecht Koechlin Playlist:    • Playlist   Scores I engrave: https://github.com/CMajSeven How I make my videos: https://github.com/CMajSeven/Workflow... Program I develop for this channel: https://github.com/edwardx999/ScorePr...