Drei Geschichten für Klavier

Three stories for piano are based on three children's stories. Being this stories these helped me to maintain a light writing, and the search for nobler sound. Each piece has a technical and harmonic context that would bring the listener closer to the theme of the story.

Encounters.

"Nature” is what we see 

The Hill – the Afternoon Squirrel – 

Eclipse – the Bumble bee Nay – 

Nature is Heaven 

Nature is what we hear The Bobolink – 

the Sea Thunder – the Cricket Nay –

Nature is Harmony 

Nature is what we know 

Yet have no art to say 

So impotent 

Our Wisdom is 

To her Simplicity.

The flight of the little cardinal

As Christ our redeemer hanged from the cross

A bird arrived to remove the thorn

The birds feathers tainted in Jesus Christ’s blood are red,

That’s the reason the cardinal is red.

If the baby Jesus is sad soon will he be consoled

And if the baby Jesus cries he shall be comforted

The Virgin Mary lulls him in her sweet robe

And a cardinal will render its song,

And a cardinal will render its song.

 A cardinal sang in its sad cage,

A prisoner sings in order not to cry

A kid came by, and the cage’s gates unlocked

And to its freedom the cardinal flew off,

And to its freedom the cardinal flew off!

The cardinal flew across the wide sea,

Crossing over Mountains till it reached Bethlehem

And so it told Baby Jesus that here on Earth

All little kids loved him as well,

All little kids loved him as well

In the Cave of Babá.   

Near from where comes the river Orinoco lived the King of Caymans named Babá. His wife was a huge frog and together, they had a big secret ignored by other animals and men. It was saved in the throat of the Cayman Babá. The couple got in a cave and they threatened with loss of life who would dare to enter, because they said that inside there was a God that everything he gulps down it and only them, Kings of the water, could pass. One day Partridge, hurry in making its nest, entered distracted in the cave. Looking for straws found leaves and caterpillars scorched, as if the fire from heaven had been out there. He tasted the roasted caterpillars and they knew him better than it was when them eating raw. It was flapping to the ground to tell everything to Tucusito, the Hummingbird's red feathers. Soon came the Bobo bird and between them they concocted a plan to find out how did the frog and alligator to bake as rich caterpillars. Bobo hid inside the cave taking advantage of their dark plumage. The frog dropped the caterpillars that brought in the mouth at the time that Baba opened his, which was tremendous, leaving out bright and Red tongues. The couple ate caterpillars without realizing Bobo, after which fell asleep happy. Then, Bobo ran to tell his friends what he had seen. The next day they were schemed how snatch fire the Cayman without burning or being the food of the Kings of the water. It should be when it opened the tarascan to laugh. In the evening, when all the animals were drinking and chatting by the River, Bobo and the Red Partridge did pirouettes making laugh all less to Baba. Bobo took a ball of mud and threw it inside the mouth of the frog, which passed to the choking laughter. At the time that the Cayman saw the troubles that passed the frog, dropped laughter. Tucusito, who watched from the air, was launched into a tailspin, stealing the fire with the tip of the wings. Rising, he brushed the dry branches of a huge tree that was burnt immediately. The King Cayman said that although it had stolen the fire, others would take it and the other animals go, but Babá and the frog would live as immortals where born the big river. Having said that, they plunged into the water and disappeared forever. Three birds held the fire theft, but no animal was able to take advantage of it. The men who lived next to the Orinoco seized coals which burned for several days in the drying of the forest, learned to cook food and to talk during the nights around the campfire. Tucusito, the Penguin and the Red Partridge became his animal protectors by having given the gift of fire.