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Tres Rimas de Bécquer

  • Tres Rimas de Bécquer

  • This is the illustration and graphic design for the EP entitled Tres Rimas de Bécquer  comprising three art songs for piano and bass composed by Enrique Lacárcel over poems of romantic writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
  • All three rhymes were chosen and ordered to configure an original narration, as translated by the author:
    RHYME XIII
                        Your pupil is blue, and when you laugh,
                        its smooth clarity reminds me
                        of the tremulous brilliance of the morning
                        that reflects in the sea.
                        Your pupil is blue, and when you cry,
                        the transparent tears in it
                        seem to me like drops of dew
                        on a violet.
                        Your pupil is blue, and if in its depth
                        like a point of light an idea glimmers
                        it seems to me, in the afternoon's sky,
                        a lost star!
    RHYME XXX
                        Her eyes started to show a tear
                        and my lips, a phrase of forgiveness;
                        pride spoke and she wiped away her tears
                        and the phrase expired on my lips.
                        I go one way; she goes another;
                        but when we think of our mutual love,
                        I still say: Why did I keep silent that day?
                        and she will say: Why did I not cry?
    RHYME LII
                        Gigantic waves that break roaring
                        on remote and deserted beaches,
                        wrapped in sheets of foam,
                        take me with you!
                        Gusts of hurricane that snatch
                        the withered leaves of the high forest,
                        dragging them along in a blind whirlwind,
                        take me with you!
                        Storm clouds that the bolt tears
                        and with fire decorate the loose borders,
                        enthralled among the dark fog,
                        take me with you!
                        Have mercy and take me to where vertigo,
                        with the reason, pulls out my memory.
                        Have mercy! I am afraid to be left
                        alone with my grief!
  • Music may be listened to at Spotify and is also available at iTunes!!