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Special offer. Berlioz & Ravel: Song Cycles
Bernarda Fink (mezzo)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2007
Bernarda Fink's strong, flexible voice is well matched to all that Ravel asks of her, from the lively snapshots of the Greek folksongs to the long, languorous lines of Shéhérazade.
Special offer. Berlioz & Ravel: Song Cycles
Bernarda Fink (mezzo)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2007
Bernarda Fink's strong, flexible voice is well matched to all that Ravel asks of her, from the lively snapshots of the Greek folksongs to the long, languorous lines of Shéhérazade.
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Bernarda Fink, Kent Nagano and the musicians of the DSO Berlin invite you to a recital of mélodies bathed in typically French sensuality. Sixty years separate the Nuits d'été from Shéhérazade, yet it seems as if time has been abolished, leaving a single conception that stands above mere stylistic differences: the sumptuous sound characteristic of Berlioz’s orchestration, whose Mediterranean strains find an echo a little farther east in the music of Ravel…
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week2nd July 2007
September 2007
Bernarda Fink's strong, flexible voice is well matched to all that Ravel asks of her, from the lively snapshots of the Greek folksongs to the long, languorous lines of Shéhérazade.
2nd July 2007
Fink’s reading here is a triumph.
10th August 2007
Fink attacks [Shéhérazade] with a surprisingly girlish tone, suggesting innocence teetering on the brink of corruption as Ravel's eroticised Orient unfolds before her. The instrumental mixture of glitz and savagery is beautifully illuminated by Kent Nagano and his Berlin-based orchestra, too.
