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Author: Benejam, Lluís
The treatment that Benejam makes of each member of this family is completely idiomatic, harnesses their respective resources without forcing them and achieves a balance indicative of a deep understanding. These characteristics are present in the Four movements for string quartet, a piece full of both grace and intensity.
Author: Benejam, Lluís
Benejam was an excellent violinist and also an excellent composer. It is therefore hardly surprising that the works he dedicated to this instrument are of the most exquisite quality and discernment.
Author: Benejam, Lluís
This small piece of less than five minutes is much appropriate for starting of a concert.
Author: Benejam, Lluís
The catalogue of works by Lluís Benejam contains around sixty pieces which include 11 songs for voice and piano with poems from some of the best Catalan poets. Just three of the manuscripts are dated so we can place them at between 1944 and 1949, thus they were very probably among his earliest compositions. However, they already contained many of the very...
Author: Borgunyó, Agustí
The name Aplec stems from the open and Catalan nature of the tunes, with a very populist bent, which are in exquisite taste and treated with a refined counterpoint and rich orchestration.
Author: Benejam, Lluís
Composed in 1962, the Flamenco Overture is one of the orchestral works that Benejam wrote once he had settled in Birmingham (Alabama), and reflects the Hispanic character of other works that he also composed during those years such as Baile (Spanish Dance), the Iberian Preludes and Lorqueña.
Author: Capdevila, Mercè
The work Corn d'or comprises quick, compressed sounds whose density means they can be listened to en masse. In the slow moments the mass deflates and softens, the sound expands and separates, breaking off in the form of phrases, or isolated sounds, with different properties, directions and levels.
Author: Soler, Josep
Two themes inspired by Verdi serve to create different variations and juxtapositions, which never appear in the same way.
Author: Soler, Josep
The work is based on a summary of four songs from the Llibre Vermell (Red Book) by Montserrat.
Author: Soler, Josep
The possibilities of the piano within the grave range had been explored by several composers throughout the 20th century, but on this occasion, Soler’s music seeks out expressiveness rather than virtuosity.
Author: Soler, Josep
The work Au pays de la soif et de la peur is wonderfully expressive and unfolds in slow movements, making use of the full breadth of the two instruments’ ranges. Although he does not seek virtuosity, the performance of the work demands the utmost of performers, and above all, requires an extreme rapport.
Author: Soler, Josep
Harmonices Mundi deals with the fugue in all its possibilities, often on its own, but also with preludes, associated to dances or within a partita. In this volume, the first five fugues are presented directly (in three or four voices) and it is only in the last piece that the fugue is presented with a prelude.