Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe - Suites / Ma mère lʼOye / Valses nobles et sentimentales
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe - Suites / Ma mère lʼOye / Valses nobles et sentimentales
The St. Olaf Choir & Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski
[ Vox Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 22 March 2024
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This varied and vivid selection of works shows Ravel as the master of the 'choreographic symphony', words he himself used to describe his masterpiece Daphnis et Chloé, which contains some of his boldest and most resplendent music. His imagination retained a direct link to the poetry of children, as shown in Ma mère l'oye, whilst in Valses nobles et sentimentales he set out to write a sequence of waltzes following the example of Schubert.
These classic VOX recordings from 1974 by Stanisław Skrowaczewski and the Minnesota Orchestra are critically acclaimed. The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings. 'These are aptly-judged performances captured in a warm-haloed acoustic…' - MusicWeb International
'….bewitching performance' - Classical Music on Ma mère l'oye 'Skrowaczewski's Daphnis et Chloé suites are wonderfully evocative of the magical world Ravel creates in his score, so much so that you wish VOX had made a complete recording instead of these extracts. What we do have is marvellous playing by the Minnesota Orchestra, beguiling singing by the St. Olaf Choir (with especially audible inner detail in the men's parts), and probing conducting by Skrowaczewski, who paints the music's colours in broad, vibrant strokes.' - ClassicsToday.com
'Newly remastered for VOX's new Audiophile Series, this 1978 Elite Recordings production supervised by Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz retains its vivid impact and vibrant detail.' - ClassicsToday.com
Tracks:
1-8 Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for orchestra) (1912)
9-15 Ma mère lʼOye (Mother Goose) - Complete Ballet (1911)
16-18 Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1 (1911)
19-21 Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 (1913)
22 LʼÉventail de Jeanne: Fanfare (1927)
