30 Caprices felipe libón
2025
Solo violin
An act of musical justice arriving 250 years late. Felipe Libón was born in Cádiz in 1775, shone in London, Lisbon, Madrid, and Paris, and was gradually forgotten, mistakenly catalogued as French and stripped of his Spanish identity. His 30 Caprices for solo violin, published in Milan in 1818, are far more than virtuoso studies: they are a bridge between the precision of the French school and the southern sensibility Libón carried within him. Mario Pérez rescues them, note by note, bringing them back to the present.
Mosaicos
2023
Eduardo Raimundo · bass clarinet
Mario Pérez · violin
Francisco Escoda · piano
Fifteen years after its founding, Trio Musicalis reaffirms the commitment that defines its identity: commissioning, premiering, and promoting Spanish music of today. Mosaicos brings together five 21st-century works written expressly for the group by Héctor Parra, Jesús Torres, José Luis Greco, Ramón Paús, and José María Sánchez-Verdú. Five languages, five aesthetic worlds, one single ensemble. A sound map of Spain’s creative diversity in our time.
Contrasts
2019
Eduardo Raimundo · bass clarinet
Mario Pérez · violin
Francisco Escoda · piano
Ten years of joint work crystallize in this album: the five fundamental works of the repertoire for clarinet, violin, and piano, all composed within barely twenty interwar years (1919–1938) and in five radically different styles.
From the rhythmic irony of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat to Berg’s twelve-tone palindrome, from the Armenian folklore of Khachaturian to Milhaud’s incidental music, all the way to Bartók’s Contrasts — a pinnacle of chamber music, conceived for Szigeti, Bartók, and Benny Goodman — Trio Musicalis brings its own mature and deeply reflective vision to each score.
An album that doesn’t just play: it understands.
— Other Notable Recordings
Material Defectuoso
2011
Extremoduro
When I got the call for «Material Defectuoso,» I didn’t know what to expect. We recorded at «Iñaki’s house» (Muxik-On) in 2010–2011, with Uoho producing. I formed the string quartet with Ara Malikian (first violin), Humberto Armas, and Juan Pérez de Albéniz. I remember «Si te vas…»: the strings held that raw melancholy. The atmosphere was unique, with María «Cebolleta,» Gino Pavone, Javier Mora, Mikel Piris, Robe, Iñaki, Cantera, and Miguel. It moves me to see my name in the credits for «Desarraigo» and «Calle Esperanza s/n.» It was an honor to put my violin at the service of this earthquake of an album.
2016- 2020
Ciclo satélites — OCNE
Mario Pérez · 1st violin
Over several seasons of the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain’s Ciclo Satélites, Mario Pérez performed as first violin in a series of chamber music concerts held at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, alongside the Ensemble Clásico de Madrid and other musicians from the orchestra.
Octet by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Berwald
Septet by Kreutzer
Sextets and Quartets by Brahms
2015
Violin Concerto
by Rodolfo Halffter
Mario Pérez · Solo violin
with the National Orchestra of Spain
2001
Suite Carmen Sarasate
Mario Pérez · Violin