On Friday, February 2, it will be twelve years since I wrote my first post on this blog. To begin the traditional anniversary article, I would like to thank you, my dear readers. For reading occasionally, for doing it week after week, for telling me when you like a song, for providing details or suggestions, here, by mail, on the social networks or when meeting by chance at concert [...]

After the long post of last week, I will present briefly a song you probably know: Canción al árbol del olvido. Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera wrote it in 1938, at his twenty-two. Therefore, it is an early song, from his first period, known as objective nationalism. During this time, the composer approached the folklore of his country very directly, quoting and recreating [...]

A few days ago, tenor Javier Camarena gave an all-Tosti recital at the Palau de la Música. A user from Twitter, @alegrescomares (named after The Merry Wifes of Windsor) raised some quite common doubts about song and their different types. I tried to clarify some things, with the necessarily concise format of the network [...]

The first time I read Pride and Prejudice, as a teenager, the lines we find in chapter 22, just after Charlotte Lucas has agreed to marry William Collins, a stupid and pompous man,impressed me, and I copied them to a notebook. Reading this chapter, I was sorry for the poor Charlotte, who was not only condemned to living with, but to the service of, someone so unbearable. I was surprised [...]

Like other years, we end the Christmas cycle with a song dedicated to the Three Wise Men. This year, however, with a small licence because we will hear a Gregorian chant. Or, rather, an adaptation of a Gregorian chat that Anna Lucia Richter and Ammiel Bushakevitz included in their album Licht, a recording that covers 800 years of German song,