Lorca Musica per cello solo

Federico Garcia Lorca inspired this work, as well as the work from which it is drawn: Geoffrey Gordon's 1995 three act ballet, The House of Bernarda Alba, after the play of the same name. Although Lorca Musica is not intended as a direct derivation of the ballet--and does not in any way attempt to follow the dramatic thread of the play--it is nevertheless intrinsically linked with that work, both thematically and spiritually.

The motifs of Alba, and of Lorcas life--lust, longing, repression, shame, passion, desire and death--provide the framework and wellspring for this music. Thematic material--phrases, melodic fragments, harmonic and rhythmic cells--have been imported from the ballet. The opening bars recount the death of Adela which concluded both the play and the ballet. However, here it is designed to make a much broader statement. Other references--the Tango, the agitato and sereno themes--are similarly intended to expand on the Alba play, and comment more profoundly on Lorcas life and death.

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Music

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• Geoffrey Gordon
• classical music
• chamber music
• contemporary music
• cello
• violoncello
• Lorca

[LCMArtistsManagement]

Not yet, but it soon will be. A digital release of select chamber works by composer Geoffrey Gordon will be distributed this summer, to iTunes, Amazon, Zune and elsewhere. Lorca Musica will be a part of that collection.

Thanks for asking!

[AllisonandAndrew]

Is this available on Itunes?

[196404383]

Exquisite piece!

[lordofrot13]

la elegante escencia musical de este instrumento me remonta a epocas ajenas ami presente....