Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Invocation To The Nymphs
  2. Entrance Of Daphnis And Chloe
  3. Dance Of The Young Girls Around Daphnis
  4. Dorcon's Advance To Chloe
  5. Daphnis Reasserts His Love For Chloe/The Dorcon-Daphnis Dance Contest For A Kiss From Chloe
  6. Dorcon's Grotesque Dance
  7. The Gracious Dance Of Daphnis
  8. The Triumph Of Daphnis And The Ecstatic Union With Chloe
  9. Entrance Of The Temptress Lyceion And Dance Of Veils
  10. The Invasion Of The Pirates And Daphnis's Unsuccessful Efforts To Save Chloe
  11. Invocation To Pan By The Nymphs And The Prayer Of Daphnis
  12. Interlude
  13. The Orgiastic Dance Of The Pirates
  14. Bryaxis Orders Chloe To Be Brought Forward And To Dance
  15. Chloe's Dance Of Supplication
  16. Creatures Of Pan Appear And Frighten The Pirates, Who Flee In Terror, Leaving Chloe Alone With A Shining Crown
  17. Sunrise. Daphnis Prostrate At The Grotto Of The Nymphs
  18. Daphnis And Chloe Are Reunited
  19. Lammon Tells How Pan Saved Chloe In Memory Of His Love For The Nymph Syrinx. Daphnis And Chloe Act Out The Story
  20. pan (Daphnis) Fashions A Flute From Some Reeds, On Which He Declares His Love For Syrinx (Chloe)
  21. Abandoning Their Roles, The Lovers Embrace And Kneel At The Altar Of The Nymphs
  22. Girls Dressed As Bacchantes Enter With Tambourines
  23. Young Men Invade The Scene, And Joyous Tumult Prevails In Tribute To The Triumph Of The Lovers

Music reviews of Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]

Music Review: A Legendary Recording You Can Enjoy In Wonderful Sound!
Rating: 5 Stars

For many American concert-goers during the 30's, 40's and 50's the Boston Symphony was the Queen of orchestras. Honed to an almost unassailable perfection under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky, the Boston conveyed equal parts unsurpassed beauty of tone, extreme elegance, and uncompromising section work.

When Charles Munch took over he essentially was given the keys to heaven, and with the advent of stereo recording he made a number of recordings capturing the Boston still at near the pinnacle of its perfection.

Without doubt this recording of Ravel's majestic ballet for the Corps Diaghilev captures both the full richness of Ravel's score and the unequalled and unique glamor of the Boston Symphony at its best. One might say the SACD offers a gilding of the lilly, so excellent is the regular issue, but it really goes even further in evoking the faintest whisperings of fragmentary themes with spellbinding - I know its a cliche but it's so right - haunting immediacy.

Too, along with great delicacy Daphnis demands moments of supreme power and driving energy, and Munch always had a capacity for tremendous punch and drive, qualities perhaps best heard in his riveting work in Roussel with a French orchestra Roussel: Symphonies 3 & 4; Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 or (Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4[[ASIN:B000009Q18
Note: The Roussel Third Symphony was commissioned by Koussevitsky for The Boston Symphony in 1931 for their 50th anniversary - along with a few other works you might have heard of: Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms; Hanson's Romantic Symphony; Prokofief's Fourth Symphony; and Gershwin's 2nd Rhapsody.

Munch had recorded this work, and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique once before with Boston. Both recordings are so good there are those who prefer them to the later stereo versions. However, the genius of these early RCA analog recordings in stereo has to be given precedence.

There have been almost too many other versions of this work to compare this with - the number of suites of the Daybreak Suite number in the dozens and dozens. However the work gains immeasureably by hearing in toto, and this remains the choicest way to hear the entire ballet.

Some have referred readers to the Boulez version. Boulez has given us many fine and remarkable recordings of Ravel. That said, Daphnis requires the urgency of the Mediterranean sun awakening the young shepherd, and Boulez seems utterly at sea before such frank pictoralism. The rapturous efflorescence of Greek Arcadia swells out and struggles to burst the formal structure of Ravels' inherent classicism. The resultant music gives us Ravel's richest outpouring on the grandest never-to-be-repeated scale. Munch and Boston convey all of this with an incandescent performance.

One of the true classics of recorded history.
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