Emiliana Zubeldía: Soles Y Brumas

Description

The songs in this production include a set of Six Spanish Popular Songs: Berceuse, Guajira, Zortziko, Coplas gitanas, Jota y La gitanilla, all composed in Paris during the 20’s and published in 1927 by Max Eschig. All this songs, and an Asturiana published by La Revue Musicale in October 1926 were debuted by the author and Spanish soprano Pepita Sanz in Paris, in 1927. Another set of ten Spanish songs comes from a collection of popular songs and dances, compiled by Matilde de la Torre Gutierrez from across the different regions in Spain, which she brought with herself during her exile in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. From this collection, Zubeldia chose the songs Alegre y contenta, El clave, Noche Clara, Cuando más hondo, Ojos que te vieron ir, la vi llorando, Asomada a tu puerta, Tengo cuatro pañuelucos, Villancico y Escena de “La maya”, harmonizing them for piano and vocals. In 1946, Renée Bauxou de Schweinfurth published them in a book added to a musicology essay written by Matilde de la Torre, under the title Spanish suns and mists. The remaining songs were composed in the Americas since 1928 and across three decades, to create a song collection inspired by American poets, who the composer respected and admired. Four of these songs include poems which were composed accordingly to the harmonizing principles of the new Natural System of Music, created by Augusto Novaro and published by Ricordi Americana in 1963.