Xavier Pagès i Corella - Works

Xavier Pagès i Corella | Conductor and composer

| A trip to Jupiter (2008)

Other titles | Viatge a Júpiter (Catalan) —Viaje a Júpiter (Spanish) — Le voyage sur Jupiter (French).

Instrumentation | Eleven-musician cobla (1 flabiol and tamborí, 2 tibles, 2 tenores, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, 2 flugelhorns, 1 contrabass).

Duration | 8 minutes.

Premiere

| Festival Castell de Peralada 2008 (Girona, Spain) | 26th of July of 2008.
| Sant Jordi Cobla — City of Barcelona, Xavier Pagès (conductor).

Comments | Commissioned by the Castell de Peralada Festival 2008 and premiered with the collaboration of Amunt Produccions. It is conceived to be performed together with the film A trip to Jupiter with direction, photography, and special effects by Segundo de Chomón, as it is conserved in the Film Library of Catalonia (original copy of the Nederlands Filmmuseum of Amsterdam).

Synopsis | A medieval king receives an astronomy lesson which will make him have a fantastic dream. He will climb a ladder passing through all the planets from where some strange people greets him. At the end of the ladder he arrives to Jupiter where he is not very well received and he is expulsed of the planet. The falling is fast and finally he wakes up when he arrives to his bed and collisions with one of his servants.

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On-line

| Festival Castell de Peralada 2008 (Girona, Spain) | 26th of July of 2008.
| Sant Jordi Cobla — City of Barcelona, Xavier Pagès (conductor).

| Score edited by the author (download pdf).