Lorca Suite

by Einojuhani Rautavaara

Description

The Lorca Suite was composed 1973, as a result of the composer’s love for the poetry of Federico García Lorca. He always felt those poems to be geographically distant, yet close in atmosphere — that of mysticism, of nature, of strong metaphers with taste of boold and earth. That atmosphere — its variations in the four poems — was the starting point of the composition. Only the last song, Malagueña, has any markedly ‘Spanish’ charasteristics. (Its central chord is that formed by guitar strings). The rest are settings without any national flavour. Rather they are international, as is probably most significant poetry, music, art.

(writer unknown)

Instrumentation

chx

Category

Vocal and Choral Works

Language

Es

Opus no.

op. 72

Lyricist

Federico Garcia Lorcaa

Premiere

Espoo, 1973

Movements

1. Canción de jinete (Ratsulaulu), 2. El grito (Huuto), 3. La luna asoma (Kuu nousee), 4. Malagueña

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