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Choral works with or without instruments

Transfiguración (1973) 12´

(Transfiguration)

16 mixed-voice chorus.

Premiere: Church of San Jerónimo el Real, Madrid (Spain), 8.IV.1974. RTVE Chorus. Conductor: Alberto Blancafort.

Commissioned by Spanish National Radio.

Dedicated to my father’s memory.

Recordings: RNE-RDP-SDR-SR-SRF. CD: Cadenza. CD: RTVE


Ecos de Antonio Machado (Ópera Imaginaria No. 1) (1975) 28´

(Echoes of Antonio Machado - Imaginary Opera No. 1)

Text: Antonio Machado.

16 mixed-voice chorus (using small percussion) and organ.

Premiere: Juan March Foundation, Madrid (Spain), 17.XI.1975. Francisco Guerrero, organ, Choral Ensemble. Conductor: José María Franco Gil.

Commissioned by the Juan March Foundation.

Antonio Machado in memoriam.

Recordings: RNE. LP: RCA

Score: Alpuerto


Apocalypsis (1976) 34´

1. La visión 2. Los siete sellos 3. El Ángel exterminador 4. La Bestia 5. Las siete plagas de los siete ángeles 6. El reino milenario 7. El juicio

(1. The Vision 2. The Seven Seals 3. The exterminating Angel 4. The Beast 5. The Seven plagues of the Seven Angels 6. The Millennary Kingdom 7. The Judgment)

Text from the Apocalypsis of Saint John.

Speaker, 4 mixed-voice chorus and instruments (3 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 3 percussionists, piano, organ).

Premiere: XV Cuenca Sacred Music Week, Old Church of San Miguel, Cuenca (Spain). Tomás Marco, speaker, Chamber Group from the National Chorus and Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Isidoro García Polo.

Commissioned by the Cuenca Sacred Music Week.

Dedicated to Antonio Iglesias.

Recordings: RNE

Score: Alpuerto