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The best recordings of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

‘I don’t want to do my work. I want to go for a walk. I want to eat all the cakes… to shout at everybody!’ Which of us hasn’t felt like this at some point during the past ten weeks? The small child at the centre of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges speaks for us all as he rages against the restrictions of his suddenly enclosed and joyless world.

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