Daphnis and Chloé

What the imagination of ancient trysts can trigger. Debussy's "Prélude" signified nothing less than a silent revolution. For Ravel, it was an epiphany: "Only after I first heard 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' did I know what music is." In his music for "Daphnis et Chloé," he presented sound in a completely different way, magnificently and expansively. In the splendid isolation on the island of Ischia, the late William Walton was no longer co...