| A mysterious night atmosphere, pirate battles, and a breathtaking sunrise: With the ballet "Daphnis et Chloë," Maurice Ravel created what was arguably his most dazzling score—and that’s saying something, given the magical timbres that the French composer also celebrated in all his other orchestral works. On their current album for Warner, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and its musical director Aziz Shokhakimov bring this masterpiece to life in all its glory—with fantastic results. "Daphnis et Chloë," the "Symphonie choréographique" premiered in Paris in 1912 by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is best known today for the two suites that Ravel compiled from individual pieces for the concert hall. This makes it all the more spectacular to experience the approximately one-hour piece once again in its entirety in the context of Ravel’s 150th birthday. In its review of the 2024 concert performance in Strasbourg, which forms the basis of the new recording, the French online music magazine "Résonances Lyriques" raved about the "opalescent timbres" produced by strings that impress with their "homogeneity and legato" in the upper register and "noble richness" in the lower register, "weightless woodwinds," brass with an "embracing sound," and, last but not least, a "multicolored" percussion section and harps that sound "intense and aristocratic." An instrumental mosaic of sound that condenses into a sparkling orchestral frenzy, atmospherically complemented by the singing of the Choeur Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
01. Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57, Pt. 1 Introduction |
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