25-08-1991 Olga Serra, mezzo. Mac McClure, piano. Esglesia Parroquial in Pals (Girona).

Text by Federico García Lorca.

Dedicated to Teresa Berganza and Manuel Orozco. 

Comments

"In the song I included, as a collage, six notes from Noches en los jardines de España and I avoided losing myself in Andalusian accents and cadences, refractory as I am to a picturesqueism that horrifies me."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 1991.