Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]
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Free Music Notes for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe [Hybrid SACD]
Free Music Review: An Ultimate Performance
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm referring you to a previous review of The Oxford Companion which includes this recording.
The Cambridge Companion to Ravel is a book intended for the early scholar becoming familiar with the composer's works; it is also an aide for the advanced, and for the totally immersed to refresh insight and review technicalities of works that one is hearing again. It is a much needed step by step accompaniment and appendix for Ravel's highly annotated musical scores, all of which are highly detailed within so the artist is completely sure of his interpretation within the rigidly confined and narrow limits as Ravel wrote them. These restrictions, tempos observed, would rein in overly emoting renditions, eliminating any temptations to go beyond the intellectual crispness, reserving dryness necessary to remove the risk of sentimentality to these compositions. While described as 'impressionist', Ravel's compositions are in direct contrast to Debussy. While both achieve great colorism, Ravel's strophic structure is as classically inspired as an Ionic Column, whereas Debussy's form is openly astrophic and doesn't follow classic models at all.
With this review of The Cambridge Companion to Ravel, I've offered an accompanying and my most highly recommended recording of his penultimate composition Daphnis and Chloe. Without question the composer's most sumptuous score, encompassing the classical tale by Longus, his interpretation is in the gilded and light-filled style of Versailles, of The Hall of Mirrors, reflecting his own vision of it French Style rather than Grecian. In musical history, were he alive today, Ravel would quickly analyze its style as a tapestry of a processional in Grand Moderne Style of perhaps Jean Dupas of the period. It is vast musical fresco or painted mural of Grecian figures imagined as Watteau or Fragonard paintings, not those of rustic pastoral Greece.
The book is enjoyable while listening to a composition and hears the book's meanings and justification. I offer here a CD from 1956, Daphnis and Chloe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conducting, with The New England Conservatory of Music Chorus under the baton of Robert Shaw. The author's view is that this performance remains the finest recording of this difficult score. It is a vast musical fresco or mosaic, the most opulent picture of a classical mise en scene. It's opulence has been achieved with the greatest of detail, including distant castanets, claves and the smallest innuendos written clearly in the score.
I highly recommend this outstanding Orchestra Music Companion to any new Ravel enthusiast, or the accomplished scholar.
I cannot give enough praise to the engineer responsible for the original recording. Forty five years elapsed before he would engineer this hybrid compact disc to permanently save an original recording made during his early years! Gorgeous!
Free Music Review: Memorable execution and very good recording / Esecuzione memorabile e registrazione molto buona
Hit: 5 Stars
This SACD is an historical recording of the " Daphnis" , with Charles Munch that directs the Boston Symphony in an execution that for me is between the best ones that are currently available on SACD. I put it, in my home listenings, in alternative to that on RBCD directed by Pierre Boulez. Timing, tone colour, details, all, in this execution concur to totally render the value of this extremely refined score. Considering the age, then, the recording is incredibly good, including the stereo, with hardly a veil of innocuous rustling, to new evidence that little microphones are often better than many. Optimal disc.
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Questo SACD presenta una registrazione storica del "Daphnis", con Charles Munch che dirige la Boston Symphony in una esecuzione che per me è tra le migliori che siano attualmente disponibili su SACD. Nei miei ascolti la metto in alternativa a quella su RBCD diretta da Pierre Boulez. Tempi, timbrica, dettagli, tutto in questa esecuzione concorre a rendere pienamente il valore di questa partitura raffinatissima. La registrazione è poi incredibilmente buona, compreso l'effetto stereo, con appena un velo di innocuo fruscio, a riprova che pochi microfoni sono spesso meglio di tanti. Ottimo disco.
Free Music Review: Munch is the best interpretor for Ravel!
Hit: 5 Stars
Ravel is my favorite composer, and Charles Munch has to be my favorite conducter. This interpretation of Daphnis is outstanding, follows the score perfectly as Ravel would have wanted. I was amazed how clean this c.d. sounded, this was my first Living Stereo SACD in my collection along with Reiner's Bartok Concerto for orchestra and Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, along with Munch's Betthovan Symphonies and Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony. I love how the chorus blends in with the orchestra, but it didn't sound as though it was behind the stage according to the score. The wind machine at the end of Act 1 is amazing. I've listened to samples on other recordings of Daphnis and none can compare to Munch's. Munch's interpretation is full of emotion (especially in the lover's theme), which is required for performing Ravel's masterpiece. I'm happy that I'm finding great old recordings at great prices becuase I'm not impressed with today's orchestras.Free Music Review: An absolutely stunning recording
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of two near-definitive recordings of Daphnis Et Chloe, the other being Ernest Ansermet's on Decca/London. The Munch recording offers a little more elan and a far better sound than Ansermet; ideally the music collector will want both.
Munch's recording is part of the legendary RCA Living Stereo series of recordings that date from the fifties, and this one has always been regarded as one demonstrating state-of-the-art sound. Indeed, many of the original recordings are highly prized by collectors today. This reissue in the new SACD medium offers excellent sound from its recent transfer of the original master tapes, and is available in three-channel sound (as well as conventional stereo) for those who own multi-channel SACD-compatible equipment.
Free Music Review: One of the legendary Ravel recordings.
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the all-time greatest Ravel discs now comes in even superior sound quality. Fifty years after date, Charles Munch's 1955 reading remains nothing less than ideal by its totally spontaneous drive, its unerring sense of colour and atmosphere, while the virtuosic playing of the Boston Symphony is quite simply outstanding. The beautifully balanced sound (always a great asset of these early RCA stereo recordings) is most impressively rendered by the DSD technology.
A true gem of the classical catalogue, a clear first-choice for Daphnis and Chloe - not to be missed by any serious collector.
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