Serenade
Cynthia of the Saints
2019
Graphic art and music videos for a classical music album. Serenata follows the intriguing trajectory of the song for voice and fortepiano through places, times and languages. A journey that begins in the German Baroque, passes through Viennese classicism, crosses the Atlantic to colonial Brazil under João VI, docking at Porto dos Casais in the Azores. It is more than a hundred years of classical songbook accompanied by the fortepiano – an instrument that preceded the modern piano and that is rescued in this research in all its sonority. Love, humor, melancholy – human feelings and perceptions that vibrate in this repertoire and that still find lively resonance in the present times.
graphic and audiovisual creation and direction: CAIO AMON
general direction: CINTIA DE LOS SANTOS
musical direction: FERNANDO CORDELLA
musical production: ELAINE FOLTRAN, FERNANDO CORDELLA
graphic design: EROICA / CAIO AMON
photos: TOM SILVEIRA, DENISE AMON
recording, editing and mixing: FABIANO CORDELLA
mastering: MARCOS ABREU
executive production: BONELLA PRODUÇÕES
fortepiano: Made by Cesar Ghidini in 2011, in Americana, SP. tuning and preparation of the fortepiano: WILLIAM TAKAHASHI
acknowledgements: CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, DENISE AMON
financing: FUMPROARTE, Porto Alegre City Hall
Recorded at the Salão Mourisco of the Public Library of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, between Dec/2016 and Feb/2017.