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In Reply to: RE: Daphnis et Chloe fans: Slatkin's Naxos Version Just Released posted by jdaniel@jps.net on January 13, 2017 at 08:39:11
I'm still waiting for a version that surpasses the Munch/BSO/NEC Chorus version(s). I'm not usually a completist, but I have the 1955 version mono and stereo LPs (original shaded dogs, just in case that makes any difference), the stereo JVC XRCD, and the 1961 version stereo LP. (IMO, the main difference between the 1955 and 1961 versions are in how they were recorded. The earlier one sounds like the natural ambience / minimal microphones technique the earliest RCA Living Stereos are famous for, while the later one sounds like some balance problems were corrected, either with more or differently placed microphones. I prefer the later one.)
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. . . for the 1961 album - which still sounds pretty darn natural to my ears. I love the Skrowaczewski version of the two suites too, especially since it became available in its original quad configuration in its MoFi SACD incarnation. (I also have the DVD-Audio of the Martinon EMI recording in quad, but that performance doesn't have the spark that Skrowaczewski and Munch have - at least for me.) Speaking of recordings from around that time, I also like the Cluytens version, with its unique brass and woodwind tonal colorings. Among recent recordings, I was pleasantly surprised by the Gergiev/LSO version of the Second Suite. (Barbican be damned!) I haven't heard the Levine and Haitink complete versions on SACD.
More in the tradition of Boulez than of Munch, but I respect the skillful execution.
On Vox or MFSL. The Vox is of demonstration quality and has Mother Goose as a bonus.
and ripped 24/96 iteration. Love it.
But the best version I've heard dates back to 1981 while attending the summer Aspen Music Festival. Our motel was about six blocks from the Music Tent, and as I headed out on an early-morning jog I heard the sounds of an energetic dance emanating from there. What else to do but continue going in that direction?
I got to the tent, went inside (no one was at the entrance), and had my choice of seats, so I sat down about mid-tent. Jorge Mester was rehearsing the Aspen Festival Orchestra in "Daphnis". I stayed through the rehearsal and enjoyed every minute of it. It beat jogging by a country mile.
Jim
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I especially like the chorus in that one, and sound quality is very good as you say, much better than either of the earlier Munch versions. However, I prefer the complete ballet to the two suites. And Munch has great theatrical instincts that serve him well in what is Ravel's most theatrical piece, imo.
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