general information

composition date
1992
duration
12 min
Dedicatee
Adriana Díaz de León et Oscar Tarragó
Libretto (details, author)

Eduardo Hurtado

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Soprano and piano)

information about the creation

date
October 1992

Mexique, Mexico, Festival Cervantino

interpreters

Adriana Díaz de León : voix, Francisco Nunez : piano.

observations

Enregistrement : Adriana Díaz de León, Oscar Tarragó, Ediciones Pentagrama, Mexico, 1995, PCD300.

Program note

I have found setting poetry to music a very enriching and enlighting experience, which always sparks off my imagination into directions I don’t necessarily go towards, when I write instrumental music.

From the very first time I heard Eduardo Hurtado reading his poems in Mexico city in the early 90’s, I realized that in his poetry there was an invitation to create a world of sound. So I wrote this song cycle in 92, at a time I was living in Mexico for a few years.

The songs were originally written for the Mexican mezzo Adriana Díaz de León and the pianist Oscar Tarragó, but have since been revised.



Hilda Paredes.


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