Alexandra Coghlan

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

The child at the centre of this anarchic opera speaks for us all as he rages against the restrictions of his suddenly enclosed and joyless world

The frontispiece to the original 1925 score of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges. Photo: Dea / G. Dagl Orti / De Agostini / Getty Images

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