Æternum: Spanish Contemporary Piano Trios

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 Aeternum, becomes a multidimensional exploration: fragmented time, expanded time, suspended time. The program thus forms a dialogue between introspection, symbolism, and post-romantic narrative.

Tempus Trio
Maria Tio, Violin
Ferran Bardolet, Violoncello
Ricard Rovirosa, Piano