Instrumentation
World premiere
Harmoniezaal from St. Michael van Thorn. Thorn (Netherlands)
Comment
"In the first listening I made to Ximo Tarín Micó's 'Symphony No. 1', I could already appreciate that it was a special work. Certain organic elements (textures, sounds, rhythms...) took me by surprise and I saw in them a message thanks to their backbone function of the symphony.
The work is composed for the ensemble of wind instruments that Igor Stravinsky chose for his masterpiece 'The Rite of Spring'. As the Russian teacher did, who extracted musical elements from pagan Russia, Ximo Tarín-Micó bases his work on certain rhythmic and structural elements that may come to remind us (or not) of Stravinskian rhythmic and harmonic turns. And I say 'or not', due to the fact that these elements are in the day to day. In popular music, folklore, in tribal music... and even in words.
Amalgamated measures and regular rhythms that are surprised again and again by cuts in their inertia, which are complemented by sections of high technical difficulty for both musicians and the conductor, who see the dawn of the 'new complexity'. A music that arrives and above all, makes you think "