Synopsis

“I think and feel in sounds,” Maurice Ravel once remarked. Consequently, his ballet *Daphnis et Chloé* is a richly textured musical landscape where one can discern the sound of each dewdrop, the flutter of birdsong, and the shimmer of every ray of light. A thrilling prospect, is it not? Now experience it performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain – often hailed as the world’s greatest ensemble of young musicians – whose energy and exuberance seem to expand the very walls of the R