A pupil of Roberto Gerhard, the Catalan composer Joaqu�m Homs developed a style that, after experiment with atonality, led to a full use of surrealism....

A pupil of Roberto Gerhard, the Catalan composer Joaqu�m Homs developed a style that, after experiment with atonality, led to a full use of surrealism. His music, however, remains expressive and approachable. Apart from the early Suite, written at fifteen, the other works included here follow the development of Homs�s musical language from the Piano Concertino of 1946 through surrealism to the expressiveness of his String Soliloquy and Piano Diptych of the 1970's.