Dover Orchestral Music Scores Daphnis and Chloe in Full Score, (Paperback)

Definitive full-score edition -- unavailable elsewhere -- of great orchestral masterpiece.

Ravel'\u0027s rich musical setting of a Greek fable by Longus is reprinted here from the original French edition.

Often described as Ravel'\u0027s orchestral masterpiece, Daphnis and Chloe is a 20th-century classic, a rich musical setting of the Greek novel by Langus.

Commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, it premiered in Paris in 1912, with Nijinsky in the role of Daphnis, and Anna Pablova and Tamara Karsavina alternating in the role of Chloe.

Ravel'\u0027s lush scoring for this Greek pastoral dramatically displays his genius for transmuting a traditional musical idiom into a fresh and stirring language of his own -- now audacious and driving, now softly and hauntingly beautiful.

It reveals, too, in the logic and sweep of its technical effects, Ravel'\u0027s constant striving for perfection of form and style.