“Suite“ de Lorca by Einojuhani Rautavaara

Based on four poems by Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish translation I. Cancion del jinete (Song of the Horseman) Soloists: Tom Fairbanks, tenor and Paul Teipe, bass Cordoba. Distant and alone. Black mare, big moon, and olives in my saddlebag. Although I were to know the pathes, I will never arrive at Cordoba. Through the plain, through the wind, black mare, red moon. Death is watchign me from the towers of Cordoba. Oh, what a long path! Oh, my valient mare! Oh, how death waits for me, b