Les Heures persanes

Les Heures persanes (English: The Persian Hours), Op. 65, is one of the most famous works of the French composer Charles Koechlin. It is based on the French novelist and traveller Pierre Loti’s Vers Ispahan, detailing his journey across Persia. Koechlin's hour-long work is a series of pieces – condensed into just two-and-a-half days – that captures and distils the scents and sounds of this faraway land.