Si un poeta encarnó la unión entre lo poético y lo musical, ése fue Federico García Lorca If there was one poet who represented the union of poetry and music in Spain, it was Federico Garcia Lorca, a true enthusiast of Republican Spain's cultural world, a friend and collaborator of de Falla, with whom he organized the flamenco "cante jondo" competition in Granada in 1922. The musicality and daring imagery of Lorca's poetry, his dazzling capacity to synthesize, enabling him to make metaphor an easily-accessible natural world, turned him into a standard-bearer for his generation, the emblem of creativity. This explains why the poet became a symbol, strengthened by his death before a firing squad in 1936, an episode which made him the representative of progressive ideals, ideals that were not always in the Spain of his day. From then on, a number of composers, many of them representative, turned to Lorca's poetry, either to create song cycles, or to pay their personal respects to him, as is the case of Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maurice Ohana, Luigi Nono and Bruno Maderna on the international scene, and a numerous cast of Spanish composers many of whom are represented on this fine CD