Aeternum: Spanish Contemporary Piano Trios Tempus Trio

• Helena Cánovas (b. 1994): Tanta llunyania no ha estat un error:
• 1 Cánovas: Tanta llunyania no ha estat un error 09:13
• Marc Migó (b. 1993): GEM(S)TONE:
• 2 Migó: GEM(S)TONE: I. Onix 03:40
• 3 Migó: GEM(S)TONE: II. Rubí 04:35
• 4 Migó: GEM(S)TONE: III. Diamant 03:06
• Miquel Oliu (b. 1973): Un simple aleteig:
• 5 Oliu: Un simple aleteig: I. Un simple aleteig... 04:59
• 6 Oliu: Un simple aleteig: II. Resonància I 04:20
• 7 Oliu: Un simple aleteig: III. Rosonància II 05:03
• Albert Guinovart (b. 1962): Trio Celebreation:
• 8 Guinovart: Trio Celebreation: I. Nits a Moià 10:18
• 9 Guinovart: Trio Celebreation: II. Presto 06:07
• 10 Guinovart: Trio Celebreation: III. Adagio 10:28
• 11 Guinovart: Trio Celebreation: IV. A tribute to H. Purcell 07:15
• Total Runtime 01:09:04

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With Æternum, the Tempus Trio presents a debut recording that firmly positions the ensemble within the most compelling landscape of contemporary chamber music in Spain.

The album brings together four works written expressly for the trio by Helena Cánovas, Marc Migó, Miquel Oliu, and Albert Guinovart—composers whose contrasting aesthetic languages form a representative panorama of current creation.

The conceptual backbone of the project—music’s relationship with time—is not treated as a mere unifying idea, but as a structural and poetic principle that permeates the entire album.

The notion of an “eternal” moment arising from the ephemeral act of performance, suggested in the title Æternum, becomes a multidimensional exploration: fragmented time, expanded time, suspended time.

The programme thus forms a dialogue between introspection, symbolism, and post-romantic narrative.

The Repertoire: Four Perspectives on Musical Time Helena Cánovas — tanta llunyania no ha estat un error (2025) Cánovas’s work unfolds as a single movement built from sharply differentiated fragments, each functioning as a self-contained state.

Its poetics of waiting and distance materialise in winter-like sonorities, reduced harmonic vocabulary, and sudden shifts in texture.

The piece rejects linear narrative in favour of discontinuous temporality, creating a quasi-cinematographic succession of moments.

For critics, its structural use of gesture and its refusal of repetition provide an especially rich terrain for analysis.

The trio demonstrates refined control of colour, rhythmic cohesion, and a structural awareness that allows each score to unfold with full expressive coherence.

A Debut with Artistic Projection The convergence of these four premieres—four languages, four conceptions of musical time—makes Æternum an essential release for critics and listeners following the evolution of contemporary chamber music in Spain.

The recording, made at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada), enhances the transparency and timbral delicacy demanded by these technically and poetically intricate works

The Tempus Trio

The Tempus Trio
was founded with the desire to explore the great repertoire for piano trio and, at the same time, to seek a contemporary dialogue to continue developing their ensemble’s literature. Critics have described them as one of the most promising of its generation, achieving important successes in various international competitions; they have been awarded the first prize of the International Music Competition 'Grand Prize Virtuoso' in Brussels, the Platinum Medal (First Prize) of the 'WPTA Singapore International Music Competition', the Silver Medal of the '2nd Vienna International Competition', the special prize of the 'BBVA Chamber Music Competition’, the third prize of the 'Rising Stars International Competition Berlin’, the first prize ex-aequo at the international competition "Città di Padova" and the first prize at the "2023 Petrichor International Competition" in New York, USA. In the past season, they performed at Carnegie Hall (New York) as First Prize winners of the Golden Classical Music Awards 2024, where they made their debut.

The ensemble is the first piano trio to have completed a master’s degree at the prestigious Mozarteum University of Salzburg under the guidance of Professor Cibrán Sierra Vázquez, violinist of the Quiroga Quartet. They are regularly invited by the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA, Vienna) and they are selected to join the artistic network "Le Dimore del Quartetto" (Milan).

Their professional career encompasses a multifaceted perspective, materializing in prestigious masterclasses and festivals around the world, such as the Musical Chairs Festival in Canada (McGill University) and the Chamber Music Festival in Munich, where they were recorded by "Bayerischer Rundfunk" (Bavarian National Radio).

They have had the privilege of being resident artists at Joventuts Musicals de Moià for three years (2022-2024) and are currently teachers of individual instrument and chamber music at the Moianès Music Campus, held every summer.

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