| Bells pealing (2003)

Other titles | Bells pealing (Catalan) — Repique de campanas (Spanish).

Instrumentation

| Solo mezzo-soprano, two-part choir.

| Flute, string quartet (2 violins, viola, violoncello). It can be performed with string orchestra instead of a quartet (additional bass part included).

Duration | 4 minutes.

Premiere (quartet version) | Cervera's University Paranymph — Cervera (Spain) | 23rd of April of 2004.

Text | On a poem of the same title by Marisa Alejandre, originally written in Catalan.

Comments | Commissioned by the IES Antoni Torroja of Cervera for the 25th Anniversary of the Literary Competition of Sant Jordi.

On-line

| Recording of the quartet version premiere (download mp3).

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| Score (download pdf).

© Xavier Pagès i Corella, Barcelona 2008