Love and longing

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RAVEL, MAHLER AND DVORAK UNITED BY THE GRACE OF MAGDALENA KOZENA...The common thread of "Love and longing" is human emotions, poetry, and dreams.In Shéhérazade, Ravel transports us into the setting of One Thousand and One Nights, with melodies rich in colors, enchanting sounds that evoke both exotic and familiar settings.Composed almost simultaneously, Mahler's Five Lieder on poems by Friedrich Rückert echo Shéhérazade, with their contemplative nature, which constitutes a new chapter in Mahler's vocal production.As for Dvorák's Biblical Songs, which Magdalena Kozena performs in her native language, they unfold the full range of emotions with a deeply moving sincerity, between distress and determination, fear and hope, prayer and joy.For these superb melodies for voice and orchestra, Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena is accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by her husband, Sir Simon Rattle.