Swapping out ballet for circus is a bold move but maybe that’s just what the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is all about as it sets off on a mission to present orchestral music in a new light.

From Maurice Ravel's ballet "Daphnis and Chloe" (CLOH-ee), the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs the "Danse Generale," under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf (LINES-dorf).

As far as I’m concerned, seeing Daphnis again is worth hours of travelling. Created in 1951 for Fonteyn, it is rarely done, mostly because it’s nearly an hour long and has a score that demands a fine ...

The sumptuous beauty of Daphnis et Chloe’s music, its bold rhythmic variety and stunning orchestration inspired Stravinsky to rightly declare it as ‘one of the most beautiful products of all French ...

Ravel's work was choreographed by Frederick Ashton for a staging by Sadler's Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) at Covent Garden on 5 April 1951, with Margot Fonteyn as Chloe and Michael Somes as ...

The ballet itself isn't performed often these days, but the music Maurice Ravel wrote for Daphnis and Chloe lives on in two concert suites. Generally one or the other suite appears on concert programs ...

What's going to be the specialty of the house? For the past two decades, the Minnesota Orchestra focused largely on Beethoven before moving on to become one of the world's expert ensembles with the ...

When artists are famously temperamental, collaboration can be maddening - or magical. The San Francisco Symphony's concert on Thursday, Oct. 16 at Davies Symphony Hall, conducted by Jun Märkl and ...