DVD + Blu-Ray:
Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Ravel

Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra opened the Lucerne Festival 2018 with a programme presenting Maurice Ravel’s greatest masterpieces.

The inspiration and starting point for this programme is the link between Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse. Quite deliberately, Chailly programmed the two compositions directly after one another to reveal an inner connection between the works. In the Valses nobles et sentimentales he sees the birth of the idea for La Valse. Chailly describes his fascination as follows: “Every time we play La Valse in concert, we uncover more of the daring, the modernity and the constant surprise that this short masterpiece has in store for the listener.”

Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra pay tribute to Ravel’s ability to explore musical forms and languages through rhythms, melodies and instrumentation. Ravel possessed a gift for telling stories from unexpected perspectives: from the pulsating triple time of the waltzes and the timeless love story of Daphnis and Chloé, to the relentless rhythm of the Boléro. Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra are a perfect match to Ravel’s music.

A 4 K HDR production of Accentus Music in coproduction with SRF, SRG and Arte.


Maurice Ravel

Valses nobles et sentimentales
La Valse
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Boléro

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly

Recorded at the Concert Hall of KKL Lucerne, August 2018

ACC10451 (BD), ACC20451 (DVD)
Worldwide release on 10th May 2019, pre-order it now!

Production Company Accentus Music GmbH
Co-Production Company SRF, SRG, Arte
Executive Producer Paul Smaczny
Director Ute Feudel
Composer Maurice Ravel
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra / Band Lucerne Festival Orchestra