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Subtitled as «Romantic Poem, No. 2» (the No. 1 was written previously but never released), this piece shows some of José Travieso's earliest and elaborated ideas for piano chasing a romantic aesthetic. Part of this piece was written in May of 1995 (until the minute 2:18), being its origin mainly improvisational, but it never was finished then and it was abandoned because looking for other new projects… during years! In May of 2000, José Travieso -in one of his most produtive moments- decided not to wait more and to finish the track. So, after this 2:18 minute he decided to write a musical development, using elements of «sporadic music» (influenced of course by the pieces recorded a few months ago: the «Essays on Sporadic Music»; and all their innovative ideas). After this interesting musical development, the next calm and relaxing part was just an spontaneous improvisation for it, finishing with a simple coda written previous and specifily to finish this track…
The name of the piece, «Rain of May», isn't a caprice. In 2001 José Travieso wrote: "My «Romantic Poem No. 2» begins as the andalusian rain in May, growing since the nothing and getting fastly strong, through a joyful, unprejuicided and neo-romantic piece. In the same way that it begins, later the rain and the music will go disappearing suddenly, but with slowness, until not to exist… Just as usually it's raining here in May".
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