CD:
Serena Sáenz: Birds

With its intelligently selected repertoire, the album offers a broad spectrum at the highest musical level.

Among the multifaceted images that represent nature in music, the song of birds occupies a special place. The nightingale, for example, is often used as the embodiment of longing and the romantic ideal, its song reflecting the deepest human emotions with all their nuances and complexities.

The combination of beauty and tragedy has also been taken up again and again in literature, as in Oscar Wilde's fairy tale The Nightingale and the Rose or the famous night scene from Romeo and Juliet ("It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That just now pierced your anxious ear; She sings at night on the garnet tree there. Believe me, dear one: it was the nightingale.")

On this debut album by soprano Serena Sáenz, she focuses her song selection on these musical adaptations of birdsong in operatic arias, inviting listeners on a journey through the centuries by combining the most diverse musical traditions and cultures and transporting them to a world of timeless beauty.

With its intelligently selected repertoire, the offers a broad spectrum at the highest musical level, invites listeners into a world of emotions and metaphors and connects cultures. For example, when French Romanticism meets Russian soul, or when composers such as Felicien David succeed in combining the sound-typical images of European opera tradition with exotic oriental elements such as pentatonics.

Genre classical
Soloist Serena Sáenz (soprano)
Original title Serena Sáenz: Birds
Recording location Romania
Production year 2024
Duration 57:30 mins
Audio format Stereo
Production Company San Francisco Classical Recording Company
Sound Engineer Polyhymnia
Orchestra / Band Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra (Filarmonica de Stat Transilvania)
Conductor Clelia Cafiero