Artist:Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opera National de Paris, Philippe Jordan
Title: Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Warner Classics/Erato
Genre: Classical, Ballet
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [24Bit/96kHz]
Total Time: 01:05:30
Total Size: 1,12 GB (d.booklet)
WebSite: Album Preview
Recorded: Grande Salle, Opera Bastille, Paris, 16. 17 & 20 October 2014
This new recording of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravels most sumptuous score, marks a number of firsts as it evokes the heady days of Diaghilevs Ballets Russes in Paris in the early years of the 20th century.
It grew from performances of the Classically-inspired ballet at Paris Opéra Bastille in Spring 2014: Philippe Jordan, Music Director of the Paris Opéra was conducting a complete ballet for the first time and the choreographer, Benjamin Millepied known to a wide audience for his work on the Oscar-winning film Black Swan, starring his wife, Natalie Portman was undertaking his first major project for the Opéra before assuming his new role as its Director of Dance in Autumn 2014. Completing the creative triumvirate and bringing further echoes of Ravels original Ballets Russes collaboration with choreographer Michel Fokine, conductor Pierre Monteux and scenographer Léon Bakst was the painter and designer Daniel Buren, a master at deploying blocks of colour, whose candy-striped columns at Paris historic Palais Royal have become one of the French capitals tourist sights. Though Buren has experience as a designer for theatre and for the Opéra-Comique, this was his first foray into ballet.
Tracklist:
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Daphnis et Chloé
Première Partie
1. I. Introduction 02:57
2. II. Danse religieuse 04:46
3. III. Danse des jeunes filles 03:28
4. IV. Danse grotesque de Dorcon 01:48
5. V. Danse légère et gracieuse de Daphnis 04:02
6. VI. Danse de Lyceion 02:21
7. VII. Bruits darmes. Enlèvement de Chloé 01:45
8. VIII. Nocturne. Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes…. 05:12
Deuxième Partie
9. IX. Interlude 02:49
10. X. Au camp de pirates : Danse guerrière. Bryaxis ordonne… 04:45
11. XI. Danse suppliante de Chloé 02:59
12. XII. Bryaxis veut lentraîner 02:44
Troisième Partie
13. XIII. Lever du jour 05:02
14. XIV. Pantomime (Les amours de Pan et Syrinx) 06:30
15. XV. Danse générale (Bacchanale) 04:55
16. La Valse, M 72 12:28
Orchestre et Churs de l’Opéra National de Paris
Philippe Jordan, conductor