MAURICE RAVEL ( 1875-1937 )
Daphnis et Chloe

Scene 1
1. Invocation to the nymphs (6:25)
2. Entrance of Daphnis and Chloe (0:50)
3. Dance of the young girls around Daphnis (0:59)
4. Dorcon's advance of Chloe (2:13)
5. Daphnis reasserts his love for Chloe. The Darcon-Daphnis dance contest for kiss from Chloe (0:33)
6. Dorcon's grotesque dance (1:38)
7. The gracious dance of Daphnis (2:32)
8. The triumph of Daphnis and ecstatic union with Chloe (0:58)
9. Entrance of temptress Lyceion and dance of veils (2:00)
10. The invasion of the pirates and Daphnis’s unsuccessful efforts to save Chloe (1:41)
11. Invocation to Pan by the nymphs and prayer of Daphnis (5:03)

Scene 2
12. Interlude (3:15)
13. The orgiastic dance of the pirates (4:00)
14. Bryaxis orders Chloe to be brought forward and to dance (0:29)
15. Chloe’s dance of supplication (4:15)
16. Creatures of Pan appear and frighten the pirates, who flee
in terror, leaving Chloe alone with a shining crown (1:12)

Scene 3
17. Sunrise. Daphnis prostrate at the grotte of the nymphs (3:48)
18. Daphnis and Chloe are reunited (1:50 )
19. Lammon tells how Pan saved Chloe in memory of his love for the nymph Syrinx. Daphnis and Chloe act out the story (2:01)
20. Pan (Daphnis) fashions a flute from some reeds, on which he declares his love for Syrinx(Chloe) (2:28)
21. Abandoning their roles, the lovers embrace and kneel at the altar of nymphs (2:06)
22. Girls dressed as bacchantes enter with tambourines (0:14)
23. Young men invite the scene, and joyous tumult prevails in tribute to the triumph of the lovers (3:57)