Piececitos is a vivid musical meditation on motherhood, migration and exile based on poems by Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Set in the original Spanish, Piececitos’ five songs for voice, violin, cello and piano interweave Latin American dance rhythms with haunting melodies: lullabies and laments of a mother on her treacherous journey toward refuge.
The Bedford Trio with soprano Lindsay McIntyre
Alessia Disimino, violin; Lucia Ticho, ‘cello; Jialiang Zhu, piano
New Music Festival, University of Toronto
Walter Hall, University of Toronto