Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

Maurice Ravel (Composer), Charles Dutoit (Conductor), Timothy Hutchins (Performer), Montréal Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)

Product Details

• Performer: Timothy Hutchins
• Orchestra: Montréal Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Composer: Maurice Ravel
• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000041OK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #237,247 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Daphnis et Chloe, Parts 1-3

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A collector's item, September 28, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews

Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra always give an outstanding and sensitive interpretation to all of their performances, but none that I've heard exceeds this performance of Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe. Performances by former director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, were the standards by which all orchestral performances of impressionistic music were measured. Charles Dutoit has raised the bar by several notches.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful., September 10, 1999

By A Customer

While I've always loved the Bernstein NY Philharmonic recording of the second suite, the sound quality, performance, interpretation, in short everything about this CD is as good as it gets.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Owned It for Years, April 12, 2008

By	B. R. Merrick - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

You may be originally disappointed in the fact that this CD has the whole hour-long ballet on a single track, but if you're like me, since you listen to the whole thing from start to finish anyway, what does it matter?

When you listen to the expert interpretation by Dutoit with the Montréal Symphony, you realize it doesn't. This is a sonorous, full-bodied, finely detailed, highly sensitive, and wonderfully rendered performance. With the immense amount of detail that Ravel put into each note that he wrote, nothing less is required.

I don't even mind the occasional vibrato on solo French Horn parts, something that usually irks me to no end. Somehow, in this very French ballet, that also doesn't matter. What does matter is that Ravel's choral/orchestral masterpiece receives the most fastidious and passionate treatment it deserves. This is it.