La isla desolada
A secular cantata for narrator, mezzosoprano, tenor, two pianos, two percussion and choir

World première

Tomás Marco, music
Luciano González Sarmiento, poetry text
Manuel Galiana, narrator
Marina Rodríguez Cusí, Sombra
Eduardo Santamaría, Crepúsculo
Gustavo Díaz Jerez, piano
Javier Negrín, piano
Antonio Domingo, percussion
Pedro Terán, percussion
Chamber Choir of the University of Cantabria
Raúl Suárez, choral director
José Ramón Encinar, director

La isla desolada
I. La sombra de los recuerdos (The shadow of memories)
II. Aquelarre (The Witches’ Coven)
III. El tiempo y la memoria (Time and Memory)
IV. La soledad violada (Desecrated Loneliness)
V. El mar de las nereidas (The sea of the Sea Nymphs)

Structured round five episodes, La Isla Desolada (the desolate isle) is the description of a man in the twilight of life (Crepúsculo), loneliness (La Isla) and the agonizing dilemma of life and death (Sombra), all resolved by the option to live on rebuilding the experience of love from the Sea of the Sea Nymphs.