Folk Songs | Ravenna Festival

Luciano Berio
Folk Songs

Fabio Nieder
V. (…les collines d’Anacapri, d’après Claude Debussy)

Ivan Fedele
TANKA per voce femminile e ensemble*

Marco Angius, direttore

Ljuba Bergamelli, soprano

Icarus vs Muzak

*commissione di Ravenna Festival in collaborazione con Festival Aperto di Reggio Emilia, prima esecuzione assoluta

An anthology of eleven folk songs (or supposed folk songs) of various origins (United States, Armenia, Provence, Sicily, Sardinia, etc.), chosen from old recordings, printed anthologies or heard from the voices of friends”: these are the Folk Songs that Berio wrote as a “tribute to the vocal intelligence of Cathy Berberian”. It was 1964, and they were scored for seven instruments and the voice of the great Berberian, who died forty years ago. In her memory, a new work has been commissioned from Ivan Fedele, inspired by the images of Japanese tanka poetry. The programme also includes one of Debussy’s preludes in a transposition by Fabio Nieder, a pupil of Berio’s. The various instrumental timbres of the Icarus Ensemble will take us from Debussy’s pianistically transfigured Anacapri to new worlds of sound.