Program notes

Como guarda el avaro su tesoro,
guardaba mi dolor;
yo quería probar que hay algo eterno
a la que eterno me juró su amor.

Mas hoy le llamo en vano, y oigo al Tiempo,
que lo acabó, decir:
¡Ah barro miserable, eternamente
no podrás ni aun sufrir!

This melancholic motet that changes to a dramatic and conclusive chorale at the end is built by using one of the famous Bécquer rhymes. Through this work a strict contrapuntal treatment of the lines is shown, emulating a Renaissance choral work. The delicacy in the voice treatment and the severe imitations and harmonic procedures generate a purist work, full of nostalgia, that will take us to a time that we have never lived.

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