Benet Casablancas

Benet Casablancas was inspired by a passage of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and its further interpretation by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa in order to name one of his key works Darkness Visi...

Canti ed Estasi di Lea for soprano and orchestra (suite from the opera L’enigma di Lea) collects and symphonically elaborates some of the most characteristic expressive materials and environments of t...

Epigramas Cervantinos was commissioned by pianist Marta Espinós and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musica (CNDM) in Madrid. With an approximate duration of 12:30 minutes, the work responds to the aut...

Work commissioned by the pianists Iván Martín and Alba Ventura, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Centenary of Enric Granados (2016), and lasts approximately 10 minutes. It comprises two pie...

Benet Casablancas ' Ricercare Para Chillida for solo Cello. Composed in 2014.

Seis Glosas is a work by Benet Casablancas for Flute, Clarinet, Percussion, Piano, Violin and Cello, based on texts by prominent Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. This is the full score.

Albumblatt für Arriaga, commissioned by the Trio Arriaga and lasting some 7:30 minutes, is the composer's fourth contribution to the classical violin, cello and piano ensemble, for which he has a spec...

The Seven Haikus, lasting some 8 minutes, were written for the Composers Portrait that closed the author's two-season residency at L'Auditori de Barcelona (2015). The work is inspired by the concisene...

Retablo sobre textos de Paul Klee is a Chamber Cantata for Soprano, Mezzo, and Piano. It brings together various texts by the Swiss painter, poet and musician, taken from his diaries, poetic notebooks...

The present work was commissioned by the Foundation for Iberian Music (Graduate Center of the University of New York) as a tribute to Enric Granados on the occasion of the composer's centenary celebra...

Shade and Darkness, lasting some 12:30 minutes, was co-commissioned by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical and the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada. The work is inspired by Turn...

Three Interludes For Orchestra by Benet Casablancas was commissioned by Fundación Autor and the Spanish Association of Symphonic Orchestras (AEOS) for its World Premiere in the 2012-2013 season...

Concierto para Violín is a work inspired by the literary work by H.Wells "The door in the wall", commissioned by the Orquesta Nacional de España and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical del Inaem,...

The String Quartet no. 4, subtitled 'Dedication', was commissioned by the CNDM of Madrid to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven and was written for, and dedicated to, the Cuarteto Casals (201...

The work comprises four movements in which the composer returns to the epigrammatic form, contrasting tempo, textures, articulations and highly contrasted expressive atmospheres, where passages of a c...

Frisch Auf, Mein' Seel', Verzage Nicht is a work by composer Benet Casablancas for Organ. Commissioned by William Whitehead for 'The Bach's Orgelbüchlein Project', the piece was composed in 2012.

Dove Of Peace - Homage To Picasso is a work by Benet Casablancas for Clarinet and Ensemble. This is the full score.

This piece empowers dialogue between the different kinds of music and languages that existed throughout the centuries. The title, Jubilus, is a reference to the joy of the Alleluya, in contrast to its...

Commissioned by the prestigious Spanish pianist Daniel Ligorio, Si a Montsalvatge is a homage to Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge, written by Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, for Piano. This wo...

Benet Casablancas ' Haikus for solo Piano. Widely regarded as one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation, Casablancas studied in Vienna at the Academy of Music and in Barcelona at the Univ...