Speaking Extravagantly

What do you get when you get when you put four fabulous string players, one superb sound engineer, and a celebrated composer together in Mexico City in the dead of night? Introducing Speaking Extravagantly, a premiere recording of 3 string Quartets by David Stock, in definitive performances by Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Stock has blended influences from Ives to minimalism, from Bartok to jazz, and from synagogue music to Schoenberg into a personal style of dramatic sweep and lyrical flight. And his close collaboration with Cuarteto has produced a recording of great emotional power and driving rhythm, with blazing colors and a wide dynamic and expressive range.

Composer/conductor David Stock is Professor of Music at Duquesne University where he conducts the Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble. He has been composer-in-residence of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Seattle Symphony, and is Conductor Laureatee of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, which he founded in 1976. Celebrating its twentieth season, Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s outstanding chamber ensembles. Composed of three brothers, violinists Saul and Aaron and cellist Alvaro Bitran, with violist Javier Montiel, it has been hailed as “a gem of a string quartet”