Xavier Pagès i Corella - Works

Xavier Pagès i Corella | Conductor and composer

| Spiritual song (2008)

Other titles | Cant espiritual (Catalan) — Canto espiritual (Spanish).

Instrumentation

| Solo baritone, eight-part mixed choir.

| Eleven-musician cobla (1 flabiol and tamborí, 2 tibles, 2 tenores, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, 2 flugelhorns, 1 contrabass), organ, dos percussionists (bells, tam—tam, suspended cymbals, crash cymbals, side drum, timbales).

Duration | 11 minutes.

Premiere

| Choir, Cobla and Dance Cycle — Palau de la Música — Barcelona (Spain) | 10th of May of 2008.
| Jordi Ricart (baritone), Coral Sant Jordi — Lluís Vila (conductor).

| Sant Jordi Cobla — City of Barcelona, David Malet (organ), Santi Molas i Joan Torras (percussion).

| Xavier Pagès (conductor).

Text | On a poem of the same title by Josep Palau i Fabre, originally written in Catalan.

Comments | Commissioned by the Orfeó Català Foundation - Palau de la Música 2008.

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On line

| Live recording of the premiere (download mp3).

[ download mp3 ]

| Score edited by the author (download pdf).