Nerea izango zen (J.A. Artze & Mikel Laboa, arr. Javier Busto)

Recorded live in concert during Leicester University Chamber Choir's 2022 summer tour to Spain. Members of Salamanca University's choir join LUCC for Basque traditional song, 'Nerea izango zen'. The song is much loved at the University of Salamanca as a way of saying goodbye to students when they graduate and move on.

Translation:

If I had clipped its wings,
It would have been mine.
It wouldn’t have escaped.

But then,
It wouldn’t have been a bird anymore.

And I …
I loved the bird.