Josep Termes

Born in Girona in 1962, started a self-taught on guitar and studied classical guitar and modern. Later he studied with Manuel Gonzalez in Barcelona and won the professional title at the Music Conservatory Isaac Albeniz Girona with the highest qualifications and higher education at the Conservatory of Music of the Liceo in Barcelona. Meanwhile attended several courses in musical performance, particularly that of David Russell.

Very often interpreted in their original version for piano, the recording of the opera version of the Goyescas are rare and it fills a gap in the discography. Created in 1916 at MET New York, many scenes of this opera are directly inspired by Goya's paintings. A specialist in this repertoire, Spanish conductor Josep Pons has assembled a brilliant cast around the BBC orchestra.

Josep Pons and Javier Perianes collaborate once again on a new album dedicated to Maurice Ravel entitled Jeux de Miroirs. The recording, released by harmonia mundi internationally on 29 November, features Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Alborada del gracioso for solo piano, their respective orchestrations and Piano Concerto in G major with Orchestre de Paris. These musical ​‘mirror effects’ allow us to compare the original piano versions of two key works by Ravel with the orchestrations he made of them. Alongside these, the Concerto in G major offers an example of how the composer combines piano and orchestra, both when the piano is integrated into the overall sound and when it plays its traditional solo role.