Garcia/ Amernet String Quartet - String Quartets 1-3The music of the Cuban American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia inhabits a sonic universe of it's very own, one where the musical landscape is constructed in order to evoke a thorough suspension of time. The three works on the present release correspond almost precisely to the past three decades of Garcia's career and thus present for the interpreter and listener alike a kind of survey of his development. Garcia's mentor and teacher was Morton Feldman

Historically

This Blu-ray features the compositions of the late Juan "Long John" Oliva's performed by his own ensemble

they're usually considered to be 'old fashioned'

The 22 lieder by Friedrich Gernsheim

is a cross-continental exploration of jazz

he studied with Andres Segovia in Italy

well-argued work

The settings are very varied: not only calling for two celli

the USA and South America

spanning more than 50 years of entertaining audiences worldwide

In 1967 he shared first prize at the Leventritt Competition

Skalkottas and Mitropoulos) and less familiar (Emilios Riadis