Various Composers - Birds (Serena Sáenz)

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1. Enrique Granados - Goyescas, H65: Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor
2. Jacques Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Les oiseaux dans la charmille
3. Léo Delibes - Le rossignol
4. Félicien David - La perle du Brésil: Charmant oiseau
5. Camille Saint-Saëns - Parysatis, R312: Le rossignol et la rose
6. Eva Dell'Acqua - Dell’Acqua: Villanelle
7. Charles Gounod - Mireille, CG8: O légère hirondelle
8. Franz Grothe - Lied der Nachtigall
9. Walter Braunfels - Die Vögel, Op. 80: Ach, ach, ach! Liebwerte Freunde, gegrüßt!
10. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - 4 Romances, Op. 2: No. 2. The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose
11. Alexander Alyabyev - The Nightingale
12. Victor Herbert - Mile Modiste: The Nightingale and the Star
13. Henry Bishop - The Comedy of Errors: Lo! Hear the Gentle Lark
14. Vincenzo De Crescenzo - Rondine al nido

Serena Sáenz, 

Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra

Clelia Cafiero, conductor

Date: 2025

Label: EuroArts Music International

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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 album 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.

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