Robin Ticciati & DSO - Ravel & Duparc: Aimer et mourir - Presto Classical

The honeymoon-period certainly hasn’t worn off on this second all-French album from Ticciati and his new Berlin orchestra (he’s just begun his second season as music director): the balance and clarity he achieves throughout is something to marvel at, and the sunrise in the second Daphnis suite is all the more glorious for the slow build-up, which is strung out for all its worth. Kožená is on languorous, pellucid form in four orchestrations of Duparc songs.