Soprano, 2 pianos and 2 percussionists.

10-01-1974 Esther Casas, soprano. Diabolus in Música (Antoni Besses, Àngel Soler, piano; Miguel Badía, Xavier Joaquín, percussion). Joan Guinjoan, conductor. II Semana Internacional de Música Mediterránea. Castillo de Santa Bárbara, Alicante.

Text by Jacint Verdaguer.

Comissioned by Comisaría General de la Música for the II Semana Internacional de Música of Alicante.

Comments

"In Sum Vermis the whole drama of the poet (Verdaguer) can be guessed through images of a poetic masochism, of an alienated exaltation comparable to that of the greatest mystics of Hispanic literature."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 1974.