Orlando Jacinto García: Orchestral Music, Volume Two
Born in Havana in 1954, the Miami-based Orlando Jacinto García studied with Morton Feldman and has inherited some of Feldman’s concerns: his music likewise evolves gradually over slow-moving spans of time – here and there with an echo of West Coast minimalism. Like the still surface of the sea, the works on this album (three of them concertante pieces for virtuoso soloists) mirror the unhurried movement of natural phenomena, often in textures of considerable delicacy – and occasionally hinting at larger forces behind the apparent stasis.
Jennifer Choi, violin (track 1)
Cristina Valdés, piano (track 2)
Fernando Domínguez, clarinet (track 3)
Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Orlando Jacinto García, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- a rising tide (2014)
- from darkness to luminosity (2015)
- the distant wind II (2013)
- of wind, sea and light (2016)
FIRST RECORDINGS
Fanfare :
‘García’s music speaks deeply, and its strength is that it can say so much in such relatively short spaces of time, given its Feldman-like demeanor. […] Violinist Jennifer Choi seems to specialize in contemporary music […] and she performs a rising tide with perfect intonation and a hushed sense of loss. […]
Written for the excellent and clearly sensitive pianist Cristina Valdés, the present performer, from darkness to luminosity (2015) holds a piano part that is far from overtly soloistic. […]
This is fascinating, stimulating fare, excellently recorded in Málaga’s Sala Beethoven and provided with a booklet essay by Sarah Cahill that is a model of its kind. Bravo!’
—Colin Clarke, Fanfare