Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Muti/Philadelphia (CD)

Discs: 1
Record Label: Warner
Release Date: July 11, 2011

Gloriously spectacular, yet exquisitely subtle, the orchestral music of Ravel requires players who can render its iridescent colors and intoxicating rhythms with both exuberance and accuracy. The conductor, meanwhile, must define its characteristic interplay of sensuality and delicacy, exhilaration and restraint, sentiment and irony. Here, in five of Ravel’s best-loved scores, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Riccardo Muti prove masterly in capturing the composer’s spirit and in evoking his exotic worlds.

Contents:

Ravel Boléro
Philadelphia Orchestra
February 1982, Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia

Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Orchestral Fragments (Second Series)

Philadelphia Orchestra
Singing City Choir of Philadelphia
Elaine Brown director
February 1982, Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia

Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Philadelphia Orchestra
February 1982, Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia

Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Philadelphia Orchestra
December 1979, Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia

Ravel Une barque sur l’océan (A Boat on the Ocean)
Philadelphia Orchestra
February 1993, Memorial Hall, Philadelphia