Periferia

In four movements: Energico y furioso, Largo, Sostenuto and Presto nervoso. The concept of confrontation leads to a posing of contrasts by mean of characteristic elements taken out from the exploitati...

The work creates a sonorous climate with a stressed emphasis in the material aspect of the sound without appealing to big contrasts and trying to make the sonorous material talk by itself. The music g...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, a 19th Century French caricaturist, is not well-known in Japan. The composer was inspired to compose Fiddle after seeing Grandville's work, 'Apocalypse du ballet,' which ex...

The great American philosopher William James talks about a credit system of truth in which we take for granted the knowledge of the world around us. For instance, as a child you learn what a car is, w...

With this score, Periferia inaugurates the collection dedicated to Francesc Taverna-Bech, one of the most renewed Catalan composers of the 20th century. It is a work that evokes music created in the 7...

A complex work, this quartet was commissioned by the Festival Internacional de Santander (Spain). Durán-Loriga works with metric and poly-metric modulations following his interest for deepening the mu...

Composed in 2012, Musikphantome for string quartet was awarded first prize in the 2015 Malta International Composition Competition (Valletta, Malta). From the composer: 'Musikphantome is a term used b...

This piece is an attempt to experiment with a combination of two contrasting musical ideas. Very gestural and dynamically active type of musical material typical for cadenzas of classic concertos has...

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...