Joaquim Homs

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...

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 work consists of three movements of 11 minutes approximately. The character of the first movement can be defined as contemplative and interrogative and it is developed through an initial explosio...

This Trio for flute, violin and bass clarinet was composed in 1953. Homs adopted the dodecaphonic system in order to get some self control and opposite to the anxiety provoked by his previous 'all is...

'A very beautiful and original work where you can appreciate clearly how the composer admires the writer Josep Carner, prince of Catalan poets. The score was written in 1935 for piano and voice. Two y...

This work consists of three movements of 11 minutes approximately. The character of the first movement can be defined as contemplative and interrogative and it is developed through an initial explosio...

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...