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Daphnis and Chloe

noun

  1. two lovers in pastoral literature, especially in a Greek romance attributed to Longus.
  2. (italics) a ballet (1912) with music by Maurice Ravel and scenario and choreography by Michel Fokine.
  3. (italics) either of two orchestral suites by Ravel based on the music of this ballet.


Daphnis and Chloe

noun

  1. two lovers in pastoral literature, esp in a prose idyll attributed to the Greek writer Longus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Dudamel’s performance of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” Salonen’s of Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony” and Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloé,” along with Zubin Mehta’s of Mahler’s First Symphony, sounded unlike they might be played by any other orchestra in any other space — namely site specific, an occasion.

Salonen brought a spiritual and erotic rapture to the full score of Ravel’s ballet, “Daphnis and Chloé.”

Their Ravel, Dutilleux and Korngold recordings have won awards, and their next major recording project is a complete version of Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe,” featuring new parts that took Wilson 18 months to compile.

“When I was living in New York in the ’50s,” Michael Steinberg of The Globe wrote in 1964, “I used to imagine Symphony Hall as the scene of a more or less perpetual performance of the Berlioz ‘Symphonie Fantastique,’ relieved now and again by ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ and ‘La Mer.’

Both use the story of “Daphnis and Chloe” as their point of departure — one literal and one abstract.

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