Periferia

Joaquim Homs is recognised as the leading pioneer of twelve-tone composition in Spain, but the products of his long life and career were always grounded in romantic expressiveness. Homs was born in Ba...

This piece has its source in a previous melody of the author. This score shows the hidden possibilities of a theme originally presented in a tonal form. The new harmonic and rhythmic possibilities bui...

A charming and festive suite of five dances by Cuban composers Manuel Saumell and Ignacio Cervantes, arranged and adapted for Requinto (E-flat Clarinet) and Piano by Ailem Carvajal-Gómez. The movement...

Les Hores: Dos Poemes de S. Espriu for voice and clarinet. On January 5, 1938, in the middle of the civil war, the excellent Majorcan poet Bartomeu Rossello-Porcel passed away in the Sanatorium of Bru...

'Withdrawal' has been comissioned by Japanese cellist Kumi Kondo in 2003. The piece is written for Cello and Female voice and can be performed by one or two musicians. The piece has been performed sev...

'Cidade do Sul', or just 'O Sul,' is a piece for soprano and piano composed in 2000 by request of the Maestro Jose Luis de Delas, with whom I studied during that time in Alcala de Henares (Madrid). Th...

Núvol fi de setembre, L'ars, L'absència, El viatge, and Divendres Sant.

The quality of Joaquim Homs as a melodist is manifested in these ten songs, from the year 1940. The birdlike intention of the collection is manifested in the piano writing, sometimes reduced to a sing...