Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (Ges.-Aufn.) auf XRCD

Diese herausragende Aufnahme gelang Lelsie Chase am 23. und 24. Januar 1955 in der Boston Symphony Hall.

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MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

Daphnis et Chloe

Scene 1
1. Invocation to the nymphs (6: 25)
2. Entrance of Daphnis and Chloe (0: 50)
3. Dance of the young girls around Daphnis (0: 59)
4. Dorcon’s advance of Chloe (2: 13)
5. Daphnis reasserts his love for Chloe. The Darcon-Daphnis dance contest for kiss from Chloe (0: 33)
6. Dorcon’s grotesque dance (1: 38)
7. The gracious dance of Daphnis (2: 32)
8. The triumph of Daphnis and ecstatic union with Chloe (0: 58)
9. Entrance of temptress Lyceion and dance of veils (2: 00)
10. The invasion of the pirates and Daphnis’s unsuccessful efforts to save Chloe (1: 41)
11. Invocation to Pan by the nymphs and prayer of Daphnis (5: 03)

Scene 2
12. Interlude (3: 15) 13. The orgiastic dance of the pirates (4: 00)
14. Bryaxis orders Chloe to be brought forward and to dance (0: 29)
15. Chloe’s dance of supplication (4: 15)
16. Creatures of Pan appear and frighten the pirates, who flee in terror, leaving Chloe alone with a shining crown (1: 12)

Scene 3
17. Sunrise. Daphnis prostrate at the grotte of the nymphs (3: 48)
18. Daphnis and Chloe are reunited (1: 50 )
19. Lammon tells how Pan saved Chloe in memory of his love for the nymph Syrinx. Daphnis and Chloe act out the story (2: 01)
20. Pan (Daphnis) fashions a flute from some reeds, on which he declares his love for Syrinx(Chloe) (2: 28)
21. Abandoning their roles, the lovers embrace and kneel at the altar of nymphs (2: 06)
22. Girls dressed as bacchantes enter with tambourines (0: 14)
23. Young men invite the scene, and joyous tumult prevails in tribute to the triumph of the lovers (3: 57)

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