Mark R. Bannister
Orchestral & Instrumental Composer
for Film, TV & Theatre

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Written in the summer of 1936 during the opening days of the Spanish Civil War, and shortly before Frederico García Lorca was executed by Nationalist forces, La casa de Bernarda Alba is a play about a widowed mother and her five daughters whom she rules with a strict hand, and who have never had any contact with the opposite sex.

During the play, a group of men are heard singing outside as they make their way to the fields for reaping.  Asked to compose music for this (Lorca left us only the lyrics), here both an instrumental and choral version of my composition for this production.  The choir was made up of members of the Richmond Shakespeare Society and Marble Hill Singers, and was recorded on 1st Sep 2007.

Instrumental (MP3 - 2 min 56 secs - 2.69 Mb)
Choral (MP3 - 1 min 4 secs - 0.98 Mb)

Ya Salen Los Segadores (PDF - 38 Kb)

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