Any performance you have previously heard of the complete score of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé will have been rehearsed amid much cursing, thanks to the state of the published sheet music, a scrawl of errors and inconsistencies. Now the conductor John Wilson has produced a new edition – but, while generations of musicians to come will thank him, his amendments, small and often subtle, are not really this recording’s USP. Instead, it’s the quality of the performance by the Sinfonia of London, a supergroup orchestra hand-picked by Wilson for each project.
