The Music Director of the roman orchestra Daniel Harding will captain a fully-crewed ship of sounds and head out to sea at the Musikfest Berlin. The musicians of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia plunge into contemplative and ecstatic waters in Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” before they join their shipmates, the singers of London Voices, and embark with Luciano Berio’s “Sinfonia” on a voyage “across the Mediterranean of Western music” in the words of its composer. The mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená also reveals Berio’s musical discoveries in his “Folk Songs”.

Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003)
Sinfonia (1968/69)
for eight singers and orchestra
in five movements

Folk Songs (1964/1973)
for mezzosoprano and orchestra

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
La Mer (1903–05)
Three symphonic sketches for orchestra

Magdalena Kožená – mezzo-soprano

London Voices
Ben Parry – choir master

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Daniel Harding – conductor