A pupil of Roberto Gerhard, the Catalan composer Joaquím Homs developed a style that, after experiment with atonality, led to a full use of serialism. His music, however, remains expressive and approachable. Apart from the early Suite, written at fifteen, the other works included here follow the development of Homs’s musical language from the Piano Concertino of 1946 through serialism to the expressiveness of his String Soliloquy and Piano Diptych of the 1970s.
Joaquim Homs: Entre dues linies (Between Two Lines)
I. Allegretto
II. Andantino
III. Tempo di vals
IV. Larghetto
V. Andante
VI. Tempo di vals poco rubato
VII. Vivace
VIII. Tempo di marcia
Joaquim Homs: Concertino
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro scherzando
IV. Allegro vivace
Joaquim Homs: Suite, Op. 1
I. Prologue
II. Ballad
III. Impression
IV. Curious Story
V. Between branches
Joaquim Homs: Adagio for strings
Adagio for strings
Joaquim Homs: El caminant i el mur (The Walker and the Wall)
I. Escenari ja buit (Stage already empty)
II. Des del mateix teatre (From the same theatre)
III. Aquest Nadal (This Christmas)
IV. Tornat al pes (Return to heaviness)
V. Encara no (Not yet)
VI. Prec de Nadal (Christmas Prayer)
Joaquim Homs: Diptych I
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
Joaquim Homs: Soliloquios II (Soliloquy II)
Soliloquios II (Soliloquy II)
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I. Allegretto