BERLIOZ - RAVEL Les Nuits d'été / Sheherazade. Five Greek Folk Tunes Bernarda Fink, DSO Berlin, Kent Nagano

A thousand and one summer nights . . .
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 . . .