“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.” --Gramophone Magazine, September 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.” --The Guardian, 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.” --The Guardian, 10th August 2007
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...
