Interview
Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé”
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts works by Tchaikovsky and Ravel
This concert sees Yannick Nézet-Séguin present two of the greatest love stories in world literature – in settings whose music just quivers with emotion. First, there are Romeo and Juliet, portrayed by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with late-Romantic indulgence. In contrast are Daphnis and Chloé, whose story from atiquity is retold by Maurice Ravel in a tonal language that is sometimes delicate and sometimes angular and archaic.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Walter Seyfarth
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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