Juan ARROYO
Federico GARCIA LORCA
George CRUMB
Amy Beth KIRSTEN
FALLA Manual
Edith CANAT de CHIZY
Mercedes ZAVALA GIRONES
Elisenda FABREGAS
Marguerite BECLARD D'HARCOURT
Marguerite BECLARD D'HARCOURT
Creation (2025)
Antigua Spanish Songs (1927)
Federico's Little songs for Children (1986)
Little Lorca song (2015)
Soneto in Cordoba (1927)
The Grito (2018)
Haikus of the Moon (2003)
Love Gatherings (2009)
Peruvian Songs (1923)
Indian Popular Melodies (1923)
Popular impregnations
In his own compositions as in his texts, the poet has throughout his life been deeply nourished by popular traditions, intimately mixed with an avant-garde aesthetic universe. The chosen works oscillate between these two poles: the Canciones de Lorca like the songs of South America collected by Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt are directly derived from tradition, while the music of Crumb and Edith Canat de Chizy remains resolutely scholarly, resonating with the depth and stripping of Lorca's flamenco, expressed through the simplicity of childhood (Crumb) or the nudity of the cry (Canat de Chizy). The absence of rupture, in Lorca, between scholarly and popular art, is just as evident in the pen of his friend, an Andalusian like him, Manuel de Falla ( Soneto a Cordoba ).
Colors of Spain
It is difficult for composers to resist the seduction of the characteristic sounds and rhythms of traditional Andalusian music. Lorca's Canciones are striking in the power of their mobile rhythmic supports, in their ornaments and melodies, traces of which can be found, light in Crumb's Cancioncilla sevillana , more emphatic in Fabregas' sensual pieces.
With voice, wind and strings
Crumb's work is the foundation of the voice, flute and harp formation; those composed after it (Little lorca song) refer to it directly. They are associated with duets and adaptations,
which accompany the texts and their setting to music in their Iberian or Andean color: the sound of the guitar strings present in filigree in that of the harp, evidence of the ornaments and flexible rhythms on the flute, warm and ductile timbre of the mezzo-soprano voice at the heart of this shimmering ensemble.