Composer of the Week: Koechlin

Donald Macleod discusses the composer's visit the New World in 1918 and The Spring Running, his symphonic poem based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Koechlin: Paysages et marines (excerpts). Ensemble Mobile Zurich. Finale - The Joy (Piano Quintet No 1). Sarah Lavaud (piano), Antigone Quartet. Spring in the Forest; Mowgli; The Running; Night (The Spring Running - symphonic poem after The Jungle Book). Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman.