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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]

Maurice Ravel - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD] Audio CD

A fair review of the Maurice Ravel "Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Maurice Ravel reviews here, or go back to the Maurice Ravel tabs.

Band: Maurice Ravel
Title: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]
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Release Date: 2004-09-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Invocation to the nymphs 2: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Entrance of Daphnis and Chlo� 3: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Dance of the young girls around Daphnis 4: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Dorcon's advance to Chlo� 5: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Daphnis reasserts his love for Chlo�; The Dorcon-Daphnis dance contest for a kiss fr 6: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Dorcon's grotesque dance 7: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. The gracious dance of Daphnis 8: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. The triumph of Daphnis and the ecstatic union with Chlo� 9: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Entrance of the temptress Lyceion and dance of veils 10: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. The invasion of the pirates and Daphnis's unsuccessful efforts to save Chlo� 11: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 1. Invocation to Pan by the nymphs and the prayer of Daphnis 12: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 2. Interlude 13: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 2. The orgiastic dance of the pirates 14: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 2. Bryaxis orders Chlo� to be brought forward and to dance 15: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 2. Chlo�'s dance of supplication 16: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 2. Creatures of Pan appear and frighten the pirates, who flee in terror, leaving Chlo� 17: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Sunrise. Daphnis prostrate at the grotto of the nymphs 18: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Daphnis and Chlo� are reunited 19: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Lammon tells how Pan saved Chlo� in memory of his love for the nymph Syrinx. Daphnis 20: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Pan (Daphnis) fashions a flute from some reeds, on which he declares his love for Sy 21: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Abandoning their roles, the lovers embrace and kneel at the altar of the nymphs 22: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Girls dressed as bacchantes enter with tambourines 23: Daphnis et Chlo�, ballet for orchestra: Scene 3. Young men invade the scene, and joyous tumult prevails in tribute to the triumph of

Memorable execution and very good recording / Esecuzione memorabile e registrazione molto buona
I put it, in my home listenings, in alternative to that on RBCD directed by Pierre Boulez. This SACD is an historical recording of the " Daphnis" , with Charles Munch that directs the Boston Symphony in an execution that for me is between the best ones that are currently available on SACD. Timing, tone colour, details, all, in this execution concur to totally render the value of this extremely refined score. Considering the age, then, the recording is incredibly good, including the stereo, with hardly a veil of innocuous rustling, to new evidence that little microphones are often better than many. Optimal disc.

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Questo SACD presenta una registrazione storica del "Daphnis", con Charles Munch che dirige la Boston Symphony in una esecuzione che per me è tra le migliori che siano attualmente disponibili su SACD. Nei miei ascolti la metto in alternativa a quella su RBCD diretta da Pierre Boulez. Tempi, timbrica, dettagli, tutto in questa esecuzione concorre a rendere pienamente il valore di questa partitura raffinatissima. La registrazione è poi incredibilmente buona, compreso l'effetto stereo, con appena un velo di innocuo fruscio, a riprova che pochi microfoni sono spesso meglio di tanti. Ottimo disco.

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A Legendary Recording You Can Enjoy In Wonderful Sound!
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. For many American concert-goers during the 30's, 40's and 50's the Boston Symphony was the Queen of orchestras.

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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How can folks really give this even 3 stars after they hear Martinon???
Now really, where's the sense of honesty among classicphiles. There you will find my unbiased honest review of this less than adeequate recording.

Honesty something very rare now a days.

This is the one to beat!
This is the recording that has yet to be beat. awesome sound, even after 50 years. .

Classic Recording of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Remains Unsurpassed
A superb performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductor Charles Munch. This classic recording should not be missed by any fan of Maurice Ravel's masterpiece, Daphnis et Chloe. Munch brings out more feeling, more romance, and more beauty out of Daphnis et Chloe - my favorite Ravel work - than any other conductor I have ever heard.

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