
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025 Review: Rituel/ Daphnis et Chloé
(Photo: Carolin Windel) If Pierre Boulez’s “Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna” is music built in air and echo, then Maurice Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” is the sound of breath and blood. On this evening at the Elbphilharmonie, Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra offered both works not as opposites but as two spiritual ceremonies. Boulez’s “Rituel,” a {…}