Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé
1912 · Work
Ravel's longest score, a 'choreographic symphony' for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Nijinsky as Daphnis, ends in a sunrise and bacchanal that Stravinsky called among the most beautiful in French music.
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