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Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloe (complete ballet) | Naxos 8570075

Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloe (complete ballet)

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570075

Barcode: 0747313007578

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 30th October 2006

Contents

Artists

Bordeaux Opera Chorus
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Conductor

Laurent Petitgirard

Works

Ravel, Maurice

Daphnis et Chloe

Artists

Bordeaux Opera Chorus
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Conductor

Laurent Petitgirard

About

Daphnis et Chloé, generally regarded as Ravel’s masterpiece, is one of the numerous important scores that owe their existence to the famous ballet impresario Sergey Dyagilev, who commissioned new works for his Paris-based troupe, Ballet Russe. Almost an hour long, Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel’s longest work, and much more commonly produced as a ballet than other Ravel dance works such as Bolero and Ma Mere L‘Oye. 
 
The music, some of the composer’s most passionate, has extraordinarily lush harmonies typical of the musical impressionist movement. Its ethereal and intricate orchestration serves to tell the tale of the two lovers in what the composer describes as a “vast musical fresco … faithful to the Greece of my dreams”. 
 
In this, the complete ballet, telling the ancient Greek story of the foundling shepherd and shepherdess who fall in love, the Bordeaux Opera Chorus and Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine are conducted by virtuoso conductor and composer Laurent Petitgirard.

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