Encargo del Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) Available for Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble Instruments Flute (changes to Piccolo) Oboe Clarinet in Bb Bassoon French Horn Trumpet in C Tenor Trombone Percussion (Timpani (4), Whip, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Suspended Cymbal, and Snare Drum) Piano Violin I Violin II Viola Violoncello Double Bass Notas al programa […]
Chamber Symphony “Asturian” (Symphony No. 1)
Chamber Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra Versions available The fabric of this work has been completely immersed in the colors of the homeland of the composer, Asturias, in Northern Spain. The composer is presenting a very personal and intimate view of this land, its customs and landscapes. The imagery is not presented literally, but as memories […]
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater is a work inspired in the centennial tradition, a dramatic work of large proportions, a forty-minute oratorio for contralto, mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra. This work at times could be considered operatic for what is required of the performers, including the soloist. Its message of hope (from a faith perspective), as well as its […]
Cantos a Asturias
This work is a travel notebook, featuring a journey through the essence of Asturian folklore. To the natural melodism of Asturian music, surviving through the Cancionero Musical de la Lírica Asturiana by musicologist Eduardo Martínez Torner, contemporary techniques are combined to produce a work that, through five paint strokes (¡Alsa, bayona!, Dime, paxarín parleru, Canción de Corro – Intermezzo, Añada, […]
Oda a Jovellanos
The cantata Oda a Jovellanos is based on the poem with the same title by Antonio Gamoneda. With a duration of about 30 minutes, it is composed for solo tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra. The work is divided in three movements, and it explores the life of the remarkable politician, writer and enlightened man of the end […]
Agnus Dei
Adapted by the composer in 2012 from the fifth movement of Requiem for the Innocent. This work for mixed chorus and string orchestra combines the traditional Latin text of “Agnus Dei” with “Libera me,” both included in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass setting. The composition is at the same time an individual prayer for out […]
Areiotolmos
Areiotolmos is a work for grand symphony orchestra developed in one single movement. Its title comes from Greek, meaning “full of warring audacity.” The main theme of this tone poem is the spirit of the Greek hero. The life of the hero is full of dramatic contrasts, suddenly changing from love to war, from life to […]
Olimpieion
This work is a portrait in four movements of four Greek mythological deities: Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite, and Zeus. The last movement, representing the father of all gods, brings all the earlier ideas together.
APXH
A composition for orchestra that explores the essence of life (arché, APXH). The ancient Greeks were searching this ultimate primordial substance. This composition is based on one single 12-tone theme, which is developed throughout the piece in a very organic way, as a representation of the generative forces of creation in the universe that Thales […]
In Memoriam
In Memoriam is a work of remembrance and homage, but also a work of sorrow and grief. The war in Yugoslavia has touched all of us very deeply. This huge tension, resulting from pain, rejection and death is expressed with the dramatically contrasting elements of the piece. The omnipresence of a four-note motif in the piece […]
Asturianas desde la distancia
Composed by commission of the City of Oviedo for the inauguration of the Auditorium “Principe Felipe” of this city in Northern Spain, this work has two purposes: to fulfill its commission as a celebratory piece for such important occasion, but also to celebrate Asturian culture. It is not a work of folkloric quality, but it […]
Prelude to Germinal, Act III for Orchestra
Prelude to third act of Germinal, a Grand Opera in Three Acts. The work depicts a transition from the end of the second act, where Levaque, father of Catherine (the heroine of the opera) accidentally dies, to the beginning of the third act, where the whole town is suffering the terrible truth that the general strike has […]
Wedding March
With a duration of around seven minutes, this work was composed with a very specific purpose. While this is a concert work, as it was commissioned, a toast from all the citizens of Oviedo, Asturias to their Prince and future Princess, heirs to the throne of Spain in their upcoming ceremony of marriage, this Wedding March was […]
Celebration!
Celebration! for Concert Band is a festive work of commemoration. Since the beginning of time, we have celebrated our beloved ones and our most special occasions with music and dance. This work brings together elements of different music and dance traditions from jazz to techno. Three marimba solos articulate the three sections of the composition. From […]
Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
This work is a direct interaction between two well differentiated characters: the ensemble and the soloist. From the beginning, the soloist tries to escape from the unstoppable character of the ensemble. The first of the two movements that form this work is started after this main idea of antagonism is presented. In a very slow […]
Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra
With a length of approximately 32 minutes, this work represents a period of optimism and light during the last years of the composition of Muniz’s opera Germinal, a grand opera in three acts portraying the social drama of a mining town in Northern Spain and the personal drama of an abused woman. In contrast, this Triple […]
Concierto para Instrumentos de Viento
This Concerto for Wind Instruments was conceived as a pedagogical work. It was commissioned by The Magistralia Foundation to be part of the repertoire for students at the Fourth Edition of Magistralia Summer Music Festival 2004. Even though it has been composed in a very personal language, the composer decided to use many compositional techniques […]
Requiem for the Innocent
Terrorism is one of the most concerning problems of our society today. As a Spaniard, I lived through many years of fear and experienced the horror and cruelty of the attacks of ETA, the Basque terrorist group. The second movement of my Concerto for English Horn is dedicated to the memory of Miguel Ángel Blanco, a Spanish politician assassinated […]
Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia commemorates the 250th anniversary of the death of the great German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. For the composer, Bach has been always the best reference of the complete musician: a sublime technique, always in service of the most sincere expression that comes from the bottom of the artist’s soul. In this sense, Bacchanalia is a […]
Piano Concerto No. 2, “American Nights”
Inspired by an earlier work, Three American Nocturnes, for two pianos, my Second Piano Concerto brings three American landmarks at night. The role of the piano soloist is different in each one of the three movements, but at the same time, it serves as a connecting element through the different night scenes in the United […]