From November 2023: As promised by John in “My Beloved Conductor John Wilson’s Lockdown Listening List: Keely Smith, Teddy Wilson, Ravel, Walton, Elgar, Brahms, Ireland, Debussy, Peter Ackroyd; Plus Yusef Lateef”: Once it became apparent that we would all be spending our days at home, I decided to embark on a project I had been putting off for years: correcting all of the many thousands of errors in Ravel’s masterpiece, Daphnis et Chloe. I soon became thoroughly absorbed in this rather epic task and ended up completing a brand new edition of the whole ballet which I will be recording next year for Chandos.
Well, here it is. Very promising indeed. (Thousands, huh?)
Part 01 // Part 02 // Part 03 // Part 04 // Part 05 // Part 06 // Part 07 // Part 08 // Part 09 // Part 10 // Part 11 // Part 12 // Part 13 // Part 14
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