Alfonso Padilla - Baez Cervantes, Flores, Humet, Martin Quintero, Sanchez Verdu: La nuit, le jour (Contemporary Music for Saxophone and Guitar) (2020)

The piece is born from the reading of 3 English poems from the 19th century that evoke the spirit and night atmosphere with different nuances and perspectives. Some verses that describe the essence of the poems are: in the 1st movement, A Night Piece, by William Wordsworth, “…and the mind which slowly settles into peaceful calm…” The 2nd movement, The Voice of the Devil, the William Blake, “…Man has no body distinct from his soul for that called body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age”. The 3rd movement, The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats, “… young virgins might have visions of delight. And soft adorings from their loves receive upon the honey’d middle of the night “. The saxophone -with its warm and sensual timbre- is the voice of the poem, and allegorically evokes the settings and scenes of the texts. The guitar part is organically conceived, with an internal movement that arises from the soloist’s own musical phrase, and is reflected as a shadow with a life of its own. The atmosphere and general color of the work is sweet and calm, like the night evoked in the poems. The three movements are abandoned in a fusion of sound with silence, which is the deepest music of the soul.