The melody on which the variations ara based is a popular lullaby written down in the “songbook” of Felip Pedrell...The way it appears at the beginning of the work is certainly unusual and surprising: a two-part counterpoint in octaves in distant registers and with very differing dynamics, which creates a strange sensation of emptiness, contrasting with the warmth and inherent expressiveness of the melodic line.
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