Periferia

A Hymn of St. Ephrem: Anthem for the Baptism of Christ sets the poetry of St. Ephrem the Syrian and uses text from his Fifteen Hymns for the Feast of the Epiphany. Ephrem's poetry sets a dialogue with...

'Cidade do Sul', or just 'O Sul,' is a piece for soprano and piano composed in 2000 by request of the Maestro Jose Luis de Delas, with whom I studied during that time in Alcala de Henares (Madrid). Th...

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...

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...

The first thing that appears in a Sonatas' volume is the thematic index, which reproduces the first bars of all of them. In my Sonata I have tried to reproduce an accumulative scheme of some imaginary...

Collection of studies for piano, each one of them makes the most of a composing idea. Each study can be interpreted in an 'open' way, once it has been played traditionally. The performer can introduce...

Marcel Olm was born in Mataró (Barcelona) on February 12, 1932. He studied piano with María Canela at the Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona, as well as harmony and composition with Cristobal Taltavull (...

From the composer: 'This work was inspired by a set of photographs by my dear friend Breno Menini. One of the photographs captured my attention by the intensity of the feeling of loneliness and inexor...

The music in this work tries to suggest a state of mind after reading each text. I was very interested to reveal on one hand, expressive lines and subtlety, and on the other, the heavy sound the brass...

Fantasy for viola and harp is dedicated to my beloved and close friends Julia Malkova and Mickaele Granados. This work is based on the creation and combination of pedal textures and harmonics where th...

'Andino II' has been inspired directly by the Ecuadorian composer Arturo Rodas, who has been the creator of the genre 'Andino'.