ORCHESTRA

BOW SHOCK (2016)

for Orchestra

Bow Shock (2016) para orquesta

Instrumentation: 3 (1st picc+fl/2nd fl.+picc/3rd afl+fl). 3 (3rd corA). 3 (3rd bcl). 3 (3rd dbn) - 4.3.3 (3rd btbn).1 - 4 (1st tmp/2nd to 4th perc).1 (pno+cel).1 - 16.14.12.10.8

Duration 17’

Some of the themes in this work are inspired by the music composed for the movie "Bow Shock".
Bow Shock, for Orchestra, was comissioned by the International Festival of Contemporary Music Ensems/Culturarts Generalitat Valenciana (2016).

Premiere on July 1, 2016, Valencia, Palau de la Música. Concert belonging to the programming of the International Festival of Contemporary Music/Ensems, Orquesta de Valencia, José Trigueros, conductor.

TEMPTATION OF THE EMPTINESS | CHAMBER SYMPHONY Nº 1 (2006)

for Chamber Orchestra & Live-Electronics

Tentación del Vacío | Sinfonia de Cámara nº 1 (2006) para orquesta de cámara y electrónica en vivo

Instrumentation: 1 (+picc/afl). 1 (+corA). 1 (+bcl).1 - 2.1.1.0 - 3.1 (cel).1 - 6.5.4.3.2 (or 1.1.1.1.1) & live-electronics

Parts: I Calmo, II Adagio, III Espressivo and IV Finale

Duration 20’

Premiere on September 22, 2006, Alicante, Teatro Principal. International Festival of Contemporary Music of Alicante, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Joan Cerveró, conductor.

The symphony is inspired by the verses of the spanish poet Carlos Marzal (Valencia, 1961), from whom the symphony takes its title. The final verses of this poem read like this:
You only save us music if you sound
You only heal us, verse, if you speak to us.

[ Carlos Marzal, Heavy Metals: ‘Temptation of the Emptiness’ | 2001 ]

Listen: III Mouvement, 'Espressivo' - Tentación del Vacío/Chamber Symphony Nº 1 (2006). Live Recording.

Stanzas VII (2003)

for String Orchestra, Trombones, Tuba, Timpani and Percussion

Estances VII (2003) para orquesta de cuerda, trombones, tuba, timbales y percusión

Instrumentation: 0.0.0.0 - 0.0.3 (3rd btbn).1 - 4 (1st tmp/2nd to 4th perc).0.0 - 12.10.8.6.4

Duration 17’

Estances VII, for Orchestra, was comissioned by the Institut Valencià de la Música in 2003.

Premiere in May, 2003, Valencia, Palau de la Música de Valencia. Subscription Concert Series, Orquesta de Valencia, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, conductor.

In 2011 the piece was adapted and performed, in a different order of its original seven parts, for the ballet Suite 4: Stanzas, with Ramón Oller as choreograper.

This composition is inspired by poem Nº 7 of the First Book of Estancias, by the Catalan poet Carles Riba (Barcelona, 1893-1959), but also also presents various influences that are pointed out in seven clearly differentiated parts whose components are different ways of music conceptions like melody, counterpoint, energy, calm, etc… seven places or seven ports, seven rooms where the composer has lived and acquired his experiences, but and also seven ‘stanzas’, - the translation of ‘estancia’ could be room, space, but also ‘stanza, or strophe, or verse,.... A place to be. A place to rest. A place to know.

These are the last four verses of the poem:

It does nothing: I have loved you carnal and eternal;
The shadow will flee, but already my only destiny
it will be mine that does not die, it will die with me,
that you alone, oh Love, you may have known.

[ Carles Riba, First Book of Stanzas, Poem #7 | 1919 ]

Listen: Stanzas VII (2003) for String Orchestra, Trombones, Tuba, Timpani and Percussion. Orquesta de Valencia, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, conductor. Live Recording.