Carpe Diem, Catalan Rhapsody no. 6

My main purpose has been to write a brilliant piece for orchestra and optional children’s choir based on beautiful popular Catalan folk melodies. Tunes that shows the great richness of our traditional folk music.

Melodies of extraordinary beauty that we should never forget and always keep them present.

Carpe Diem (Enjoy the day) wants to be a small reflection on the brevity of our life where we normally all swing between moments of optimism and others more depressing. Once we have reached a certain age and looking back a bit, we realize that everything has happened too fast and it is time to live intensely the present. We take advantage of the days so that the future is uncertain. Death will come to us inevitably. We enjoy the world that surrounds us, nature, the people we love and seek happiness to the fullest while we have good health.

(Salvador Brotons)