Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges (The Child and the Spells)
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Setting a charming text by Colette, Ravel's richly-scored opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges
(The Child and the Spells) is a lyric fantasy whose cast includes fairy tale characters, crockery,
plants and little animals which come to life to chastise the child who has been tormenting them.
However, all ends happily when the child learns compassion. Ravel's life-long fascination with
the exotic orient found inspiration in three poems by Tristan Klingsor, brought together in his
ravishing and enduringly popular song cycle Shéhérazade.
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Manufacturer: Naxos
Release date: 31 March 2009
EAN: 0730099021579 UPC: 730099021579
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Release date: 31 March 2009
EAN: 0730099021579 UPC: 730099021579