Periferia

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...

Quadres is a promenade through several paintings as a background. As long as each painting has its own period and style, the music varies from one part to the other. The talent of the artist is except...

Composed specially for the First 'Darwin Vargas W' Composition Contest, where it won the first prize unanimously, this piece explores fixed positions by the left hand and resonances and dissonances pr...

'Tridacna' is a three movement piece dedicated to Jaime Torrent. In 2005, it was a compulsory piece for the concours at the conservatoire of Perpignan (France).

The work has a speech that walks in small pieces that are modified, as a Monologue, however it is written in Ternary form. Several techniques are explored, for example a modified Bartok Pizzicato, as...

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...

Karma is the stage that someone reaches when is invaded by an immense loneliness. The piece serves as a relief of the stressed life most working people carry on today, because the public who wish to l...

'Sombras' is a work for guitar composed by three related movements that when played, we can see continuity in the different 'climax'. Written in free language, it is inspired in the shadows that are a...

Dead Souls is based entirely on the Cuban Son rhythm. It takes a catchy minor melody and develops it with many variations. The title is taken form the great unfinished novel by Nikolai Gogol. The poet...

'La nova Ciutat' was written in 1985 in Barcelona in some moments of mystical revelation. My father had just passed away almost in my arms and my only source of inspiration and existential consolation...

When I wrote 'Romanza del Desierto' I had been living in Arizona and I would frequently camp in the desert with friends. The setting sun behind the mountains and the beautiful light it created was my...

The shock for another war and ethnic conflict took me by surprise and from my sadness and helplessness came those notes as invisible prayers for a more intelligent and vulgar man . . .