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...

Elegy for Strings' is a set of variations, or developments of the musical material exposed in the first 34 measures of the piece. Two climaxes are relevant in this piece: as the piece becomes more int...

Fractals for String orchestra follows Ruben Hinojosa's program very strictly. The structure is for string quartet but can be widened to string quintet and string orchestra. An experiment and a realisa...

From the composer: 'Singapore Sling is my personal homage to the exuberant dynamism of Singapore, a city where I lived and composed for five years. Its original version has been written for orchestra...

Tomás Marco has found in the masterpiece by El Greco the inspiration for a music of ritual and mechanistic character. As in the painting mentioned in the title, the music is organized in layers. It is...

'Nigun' is a fantasia concertante for violin, strings and harpsichord. The work has been written following the tradition of the secular and Hebrew synagogue music. The first part is a sentence, a sad...

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) was a Spanish-born Mexican composer of the Renaissance period. Although born in Málaga, Spain, he moved to Puebla, Mexico in 1620, and was later appointed maes...

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) was a Spanish-born Mexican composer of the Renaissance period. Although born in Málaga, Spain, he moved to Puebla, Mexico in 1620, and was later appointed maes...