Corderito ven

This early 16th-century Spanish villancico, Corderito ven, paints a devotional scene. The refrain calls for the 'little lamb' to come, as faith calls, seeks, and beholds him. The verses express a sense of longing and searching for divine presence, questioning where love has gone and drawing parallels between night and day to represent the absence of that presence. Scored for three sopranos (SSST), this sacred work offers a poignant expression of spiritual yearning. It is a simple, direct setting of a text that has a strong emotional core, characteristic of the villancico form popular in the Renaissance.