Climes II Viola & Piano

During the 1980’s, Francesc Taverna composed three works entitled Climes. All three are made up of three smaller groups: Climes I and Climes II are for duets while Climes III is for a trio with piano. Climes II was written in 1982, in an moment when the author, as he himself states “based the language in expressionist and atonal elements, back then I was interested in polyrhythms and looked into harmonic balance through intervallic concepts. Using these elements I pursued a language of sound that I needed to express and communicate my ideas and my reflections”. Climes II is based on its predecessor Climes I —composed a year earlier for clarinet and piano— and similarly, has a single movement with a free structure. The intervallic element is evident throughout the work and only in the central part (Calmo) do we find that the melodic line is more static.
Other works from that same period include Grafitti per a trio -Grafitti for trio- (Clivis Publicacions, AC180), Gèminis per a duet de pianos -Gèminis for two pianos- (Clivis Publicacions, AC031), Imatges per a veu i piano sobre Tannkas de Carles Riba -Images for voice and piano on Tannkas of Carles Riba- (Clivis Publicacions, AC118) and Climes I (Clivis Publicacions, AC069).

David Puertas