Periferia

The piece is constructed over a simple 'funk groove' pattern that is combined with a chromatic descending line that appears in the piccolo. The register of the ensemble is totally developed, ascending...

'The Five Rings' is based on The Book of Five Rings, an ancient Japanese text by Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1645) that examines the art and philosophy of martial arts and combat. There are five sections of...

Ribe sets the music again to a text by his friend, the poet M. Merce Marcal. The poem, which belongs to a posthumous book, shows in the eeriest way the intuition of her premature death. The music tack...

The 'Rigaudon' is a French baroque dance. In this piece the two players make different dance music. Folk dances, Jazz dances and waltzes. At the end of the piece they are dancing faster and faster and...

This quintet is like a sonorous excursion. In fact, it is inspired in the memories of a school visit to Añavingo's gully in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The orography and the singing of the birds...

This piece has its source in a previous melody of the author. This score shows the hidden possibilities of a theme originally presented in a tonal form. The new harmonic and rhythmic possibilities bui...

'The title of the piece is taken from a picture by Piet Mondrian. Like the artwork, the instrumentation is very expressive: two woodwind, two brass, and two string instruments, all mixed by a deep, ex...