Cantos del Emigrante (2006)
(Songs of the Emigrant)
Inst:
Tenor and Piano (with Cello on songs #5 and 8)
Duration:
30 minutes
Commission:
Joaquín Pixán, tenor
Other Performances:
Emanuel-Cristian Carman, tenor, Jennifer Muniz, piano; IU South Bend, October 4, 2014
A song cycle in eight movements, which portrays the life of an immigrant from the first time when he arrives to the new country and his sentiments of nostalgia to his final moments as he leaves the world and remembers the homeland.
- De Los Caballos (Lorences)
- Prioritaria Alcordanza Persistente (Lorences)
- We Have The Blues (Lorences)
- Con Pallabrinas D’amor (Losada)
- Nana (Losada)
- Manes (Gutierrez)
- Alcordanza (Losada)
- Depués Nada (Gutierrez)
CD released in 2006 (Spain only)
Re-recorded in 2014 (Release pending)