1.Balada a Dulcinea (1986)
2.Diálogo con Mompou (1988)
3.Ritornello (1986)

Violin, cello and piano

Num.1 and 3: 22-04-1986 Trío Mompou. Jornadas Cervantinas. Capilla Cisneros. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

Num.2: 09-08-1988 Trío Mompou. XXXVII Festival Internacional de Música, Santander.

Complet work: 06-06-1989 Trío Mompou Aula de Cultura de Caja Madrid, Aranjuez.

Num.2 was comissioned by the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea (CDMC). Work formed by the union of the movements premiered as independent works.

Comments

"At first, this piece only had two movements, Balada de Dulcinea and Ritornello. Later, I received a commissioned and I wrote it for piano, violin and cello, a Diálogo con Mompou, and I based it on the a theme from Dialogues (1923), a piano work by that illustrious Catalan composer. I decided to include this piece as a middle movement; I thought the score seemed more complete, more balanced that way. I have commented on several occasions that this piece required a great deal of effort to write for me, since I’d never considered writing a trio, that chamber form par excellence, in which three different lines are juxtaposed and blended together ever so well when they are written correctly."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 1994

"This, written -along with six different Spanish composers- to commemorate the recent death of Frederic Mompou, and submitted as a thematic “in memoriam” for that great musician from Barcelona, (...) In the first piano intervention of Balada de Dulcinea, we could take it as a knight’s offering to the ideal Lady of Toboso, prior to this Dialogue, composed in a similar fashion as Mompou wrote his two in 1923. They have some similar flavor of that French group “Les Six”; in the Ritornelo, with its meridional clarity, he gives us that little touch of West Indian influence which is consubstantial with Montsalvatge’s music."

Antonio Iglesias, 1987.