El Viaje Definitivo | Ernesto Cordero
El Viaje Definitivo | Ernesto Cordero
Tineke Roseboom, soprano
Marcus de Jong, guitar
The final journey, by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1911), one of the most beautiful poems I’ve ever read. Together with Guitarist Marcus de Jong I made a recording in the Concerthall of the ArtEZ Conservatory in Arnhem, where we both studied, already a while back..
De Weers geluid en muziek – audio
Sara Bosch | Sara’s lab – video
Mandy Kleinveld |The Barber Car – hair/make-up
With many thanks to the ArtEZ Conservatorium in Arnhem.
The Final Journey
…. and I will go away.
And the birds will stay, singing
And my garden will stay
With its green tree
And white water well.
And every afternoon the sky will be blue and peaceful
And the pealing of bells will be like this afternoon’s
Peal of the bell of the high campanile.
They will die, all those who loved me
And every year the town will be revived, again
And in my circle of green white-limed flowering garden
My spirit will dwell nostalgic from tree to well.
And I will go away
And I will be lonely without my home
And without my tree with its green foliage
Without my white water well
Without the blue peaceful sky
And the birds will stay singing
Translator: Uys Krig
