Carlos Payés: 'Flor de un Día' - canción (barcarola)

[jannarta]

It has enough variation to make it a nice practice piece and a 'hit for the moment ' To really take off it would require a lively round dance or mazurka for a second movement to demonstrate 'an other day ' with a third section repeating the first melody again only more robust. Jannarta.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you - that's a fair point. I think one needs to view it as a piano transcription of a Latin ballad.

[ronpolla]

Another eclectic unexpected choice.

Thank you!!

[PSearPianist]

It is the first piece of Salvadoran piano music I have played!

[musicusblau]

Very good. It´s really interesting for me to meat this composer and this lovely piece. Excellent playing!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you. I'm sure the composer will be pleased to see your comment!

[mcyeta]

Definitively, a fantastic work!! what a beautiful composition!! And in my point of view, "flor de un día" (flower of a day, that's the literal translation) refers to something wonderful that the composer met one day while he was living through the moment, as a poet who detains himself to observe something beautiful in his "day after day"; this piece express that particular and unique moment.. The Flower of a Day...

Regards from Argentina

[PSearPianist]

Thank you - the composer will be pleased to see yours and the other kind comments. I particularly appreciate the comments from you and other native Spanish speakers to whom the title will have more meaning than to me!

[criseluka]

Beautiful! Wonderful! GREAT! 5*

[PSearPianist]

Thank you!

[ColinMitchellMusic]

You play this piece with a lovely touch and fine sensitivity for the genre -Bravo!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you for that!

[Babejuda]

Beautiful south-American music. I think it should be translated as: "Flower of the Day". Something equivalent to "The Saint of the Day"(?) Or, maybe it is a symbol of a specific girl, important to the composer? - either way, beautiful and beautifully played.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you.  I will see if I can find out from the composer exactly what he had in mind!

[tocalpianix]

Actually the expression 'flor de un día' usually describes something or someone indeed very interesting, valuable or successful that (unfortunately) doesn't last too long, a metaphor of those flowers that only live one day.

[PSearPianist]

Thanks for that - I think the translation on the CD is therefore the most accurate!

[tocalpianix]

I agree it is. Excellent piece by the way, and you play with gorgeous expressivity as always.