Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d ' eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Igor Stravinsky called Daphnis et Chloé " one of the most beautiful products of all French music " and author Burnett James claims that it is " Ravel's most impressive single achievement, as it is his most opulent and confident orchestral score ".

In 1907 on Misia's boat L ' Aimée, Ravel completed L ' heure espagnole and the Rapsodie espagnole, and at the premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel arrived late and did not go to his box but to Misia's, where he offered her a Japanese doll.

* Daphnis et Chloé (" Daphnis and Chloé ") ( ballet, 1909 – 1912 )

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* Maurice Ravel's Ballet Daphnis et Chloé ( 1912 )

The initial recordings included live concert performances of William Bolcom's 8th Symphony and Lyric Concerto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

* RCT 34 – Daphnis et Eglé ( 1753 )

For Diaghilev, in Paris he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and The Nightingale ; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé ; and Debussy's Jeux.

Monteux was the conductor for the two outstanding works of the season, Vaslav Nijinsky's ballet version of Debussy's Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune, made with the composer's approval, and Fokine's Daphnis et Chloé to a score commissioned from Ravel.

Monteux's other premieres for Diaghilev included Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Debussy's Jeux.

** Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé ( Complete Ballet )

** Edward ( Bud ) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore ( engineers ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe ( Complete Ballet )

** Charles Münch ( conductor ) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

** Lewis W. Layton ( engineer ), Charles Münch ( conductor ) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

He has made influential modern recordings of Hector Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette and Maurice Ravel's ballets Daphnis et Chloé and Ma mère l ' oye.

Set design for the world premiere of the ballet Daphnis et Chloë ( music by Maurice Ravel ), Paris 1912.

Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel.

At almost an hour long, Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel's longest work.

The story concerns the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé.

Daphnis et Chloé is scored for the following instruments:

American Figure Skater, Sarah Hughes, won her Olympic gold medal skating to selections from Daphnis et Chloé at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002.

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Her professional debut took place at the Opera House in Monte Carlo on 1 February 1907, where she performed Tyrcis in Myriame et Daphné ( André Bloch's arrangement of Jacques Offenbach's Daphnis et Chloé ), with Paderewski.

Youmans was forced to retire in 1934, after a professional career of only 13 years, only returning to Broadway to mount the ill-fated extravaganza The Vincent Youmans Ballet Revue ( 1943 ), an ambitious mix of Latin-American and classical music, including Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.

After leaving the army he went to Florence, and was fortunate enough to discover in the Laurentian Library a complete manuscript of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, an edition of which he published in 1810.

Three of the four initial releases, all recorded live in concert, feature the Tanglewood Festival Chorus: William Bolcom's 8th Symphony ( which the TFC premiered in 2008 ), Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé.

* Longi Pastoralia First complete Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe, edited by P .- L.

* In the rings of Saturn, the Encke and Keeler gaps within the A Ring are cleared by 1: 1 resonances with the embedded moonlets Pan and Daphnis, respectively.

In 1 Thyrsis sings to a goatherd how Daphnis, the mythical herdsman, having defied the power of Aphrodite, dies rather than yield to a passion with which the goddess had inspired him.

This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas, in the manner of Lodge and Shakespeare, dealing at large with the complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede.

From Oedipus onward, Greek and Roman tales are filled with exposed children who escaped death to be reunited with their families — usually, as in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, more happily than in Oedipus's case.

Other artists associated with Hard-edge painting include Herb Aach, Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Max Bill, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ralph Coburn, Nassos Daphnis, Ronald Davis, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Burgoyne Diller, Peter Halley, Al Held, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Günther C. Kirchberger, Alexander Liberman, Agnes Martin, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Ad Reinhardt, Bridget Riley, Ludwig Sander, Leon Polk Smith, Julian Stanczak, Frank Stella, Myron Stout, Leo Valledor, Victor Vasarely, Charmion von Wiegand, Neil Williams, Larry Zox and Barbro Östlihn.

The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription ( to Daphnis ) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff.

* Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe with Tanglewood Festival Chorus ( Philips, 1989 )

But with an abrupt motion Daphnis pushes aside the cowherd and approaches Chloe affectionately.

It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι δ in the Florentine manuscript ; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου ( not λόγγου ) ποιμενικῶν.

Among the other productions of his genius are the Deluge, which represents two angels speeding above the desolate earth from which the destroying waters have just begun to retire, leaving visible behind them the ruin they have wrought ; the Battle of the Lemanus, a piece of elaborate design, crowded but not encumbered with figures, and giving fine expression to the movements of the various bands of combatants and fugitives ; the Prodigal Son, in which the artist has ventured to add to the parable the new element of mother's love, greeting the repentant youth with a welcome that shows that the mother's heart thinks less of the repentance than of the return ; Ruth and Boaz ; Ulysses and Nausicaa ; Hercules at the Feet of Omphale ; the Young Athenian, or, as it is popularly called, Sappho ; Minerva and the Nymphs ; Venus and Adonis ; Daphnis and Chloë ; and Love and the Parcae.

Also for Philips, with the BSO under Bernard Haitink's direction, the chorus has recorded Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Brahms's Alto Rhapsody and Nänie.

Not to be confused with Daphnis ( moon ).

The story, we are told, is inspired by this image, but is not based on it, in contrast to Daphnis and Chloe, a romance which also opens with an ekphrasis, but instead of being inspired by the painting is in fact an interpretation of the painting, making the whole novel a form of ekphrasis.

Daphnis and Chloe is the story of a boy ( Daphnis ) and a girl ( Chloe ), each of whom is exposed at birth along with some identifying tokens.

Along with the Diana of Jorge de Montemayor ( published in the same year ), Daphnis and Chloe helped inaugurate a European vogue for pastoral fiction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

* The music by Ravel was also used in the ballet of the same name by Frederick Ashton, first performed by the Sadler's Wells Ballet ( now Royal Ballet ) at Covent Garden on 5 April 1951, with Margot Fonteyn as Chloe and Michael Somes as Daphnis.

* Longi Pastoralia Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe with a Latin translation, edd.