Cinco poemas de Manolo Hugué en forma de cantata.
1. Emphase
2. Le couvent de Saint Daniel
3. L'olivier
4. Hier
5. À mon coeur

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Version for chamber orchestra by Albert Guinovart: Soprano *2*2*22-2200-tmp+2-arp-cu

10-03-1973 Victoria de los Ángeles, soprano. Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio y Televisión Española. Odón Alonso, conductor. Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Madrid.

Comissioned by the RNE to commemorate the 50 the years of the death of Felip Pedrell.

Also ersion for soprano and piano.

Comments

“ “I got to know and admire without limits the person and the work of Manolo, to which I feel, in a certain way, linked. When I decided to put music to five of his poems in the French language, I wanted to dispense with any approach other than that of composing a work, which I think the unforgettable Manolo would have liked, dedicated to his verses; you only need to read them once to feel fascinated - and at certain times, overwhelmed - by the classical beauty and lyrical tension of their stanzas. Although no thematic or formal relationship exists between each of the poems, I wanted to bring them together by giving the composition the structure of a small cantata for soprano, with the orchestra as an accompanying element or setting the words, until they form a whole symphonic-vocal that runs without a solution of continuity.” The poet's beauty and lyricism were transformed by Montsalvatge into intensely expressive music, free of any ties other than those that impose fidelity to the text or the orchestrated dramaturgy derived from its content.”

Enrique Franco, 1973.

"They underline the beautiful French texts to perfection, with a descriptivism more attentive to the depth of their emotional content than to the pure words: only certain and very few intervals sometimes break the cadential rest guessed in the totality of some music taken care of detail, perfectly contrasted - even if a certain lyricism prevails - and superbly written."

Antonio Iglesias, 1973.