Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (complete opera) / Sheherazade
$25.00
Low Stock
add to cart
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (complete opera) / Sheherazade
Julie Boulianne / Genevieve Despres / Kirsten Gunlogson / Chattanooga Boys Choir / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Alastair Willis
[ Naxos Opera Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 April 2009
Should this item be out of stock at the time of your order, we would expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 5 business days.
Setting a charming text by Colette, Ravel's richly-scored opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) is a lyric fantasy whose cast includes fairy tale characters, crockery, plants and little animals which come to life to chastise the child who has been tormenting them. However, all ends happily when the child learns compassion. Ravel's life-long fascination with the exotic orient found inspiration in three poems by Tristan Klingsor, brought together in his ravishing and enduringly popular song cycle Shéhérazade.
"Ravel brilliantly balances raucous humour with heartfelt tenderness, and any production or recording needs to be able to convey both his caricatures and the sublime. This engaging account from Nashville successfully negotiates this balancing act. Julie Boulianne's child has wide-eyed wonder... She can be heard in grown-up, and decidedly seductive mode in the accompanying Shéhérazade." BBC Music
Tracks:
L'enfant et les sortileges
Sheherazade (version for orchestra)
