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Daphnis Et Chloe (Charles Munch) '1955 [SACD]

Scene 1

1. Invocation to the nymphs

2. Entrance of Daphnis and Chloe

3. Dance of the young girls around Daphnis

4. Dorcon`s advance to Chloe

5. Daphnis reasserts his love for Chloe. The Dorcon-Daphnis dance contest for a kiss from Chloe

6. Dorcon`s grotesque dance

7. The gracious dance of Daphnis

8. The triumph of Daphnis and the ecstatic union with Chloe

9. Entrance of the tempress Lyceion and dance of veils

10. The invasion of the pirates and Daphnis`s unsuccessful efforts to save Chloe

11. Invocation to Pan by the nymphs and the prayer of Daphnis

Scene 2

12. Interlude

13. The orgiastic dance of the pirates

14. Bryaxis orders Chloe to be brought forward and to dance

15. Chloe`s dance of supplication

16. Creatures of Pan appear and frighten the pirates, who flee in terror, leaving Chloe alone with a shining crown

Scene 3

17. Sunrise, Daphins prostrate at the grotto of the nymphs

18. Daphnis and Chloe are reunited

19. Lammon tells how Pan saved Chloe in memory of his love for the nymph Syrinx Daphnis and Chloe act out the story

20. Pan (Daphnis) fashions a flute from some reeds, on which he declares his love for Syrinx (Chloe)

21. Abandoning their roles, the lovers embrace and kneel at the altar of the nymphs

22. Girls dressed as bacchantes enter with tambourines

23. Young men invade the scene, and joyous tumult prevails in tribute to the triumph of the lovers