This piece is my first vocal work (that has been completed, at least). The piece is originally for alto voice, cello, and pianist, but for this recording, I wasn't able to get a cellist and had to substitute with a bass clarinet. The text of the piece is from "Dos canciones" by 15th-century Spanish poet Jorge Manrique's, and reads:

Con dolorido cuidado,
desgrado, pena y dolor,
parto yo, triste amador,
de amores desamparado,
de amores, que no de amor.

Y el corazón, enemigo
de lo que mi vida quiere,
ni halla vida ni muere
ni queda ni va conmigo;
sin ventura, desdichado,
sin consuelo, sin favor,
parto yo, triste amador,
de amores desamparado,
de amores, que no de amor.

This translates to:

With a painful care,
discontent, sorrow and pain,
I depart, a sad lover,
forsaken by all my loves,
by my loves, but not by love.

And my own heart, enemy
of what my life desires,
neither finds life nor dies,
nor remains, nor goes with me;
without furtune, wretched,
without comfort, without favor,
I depart, a sad lover,
forsaken by all my loves,
by my loves, but not by love.