Daniel Garcia, Pablo Martin Caminero - Recital 2.0 (2023)

Daniel García and Pablo Martín Caminero are primarily known for their musical endeavours and explorations in their albums, compositions and improvisations within a genre we can call Flamenco Jazz. However, the origins of their musical training can be traced back to classical music, and they have never ceased to draw from that boundless source of inspiration, which, along with others, has ultimately made them two of the most creative and restless musicians on the peninsula.
Building upon this shared, highly specific, and uncommon musical background, this duo project seeks to strike a balance between performing works by great composers and improvising new melodies that emerge over the harmonic landscapes laid out by these brilliant masters. To achieve this, they carefully distill a repertoire from among their favorite compositions, some of which may not necessarily be 'classical,' in order to immerse themselves in and improvise upon them in a very special way. Not as a classical musician would, not as a jazz musician would, but by uniting the best of these two worlds, combined with the wealth of experience accumulated over the years, making this duo one of the most original and inspired musical treasures in the Spanish music scene.
Thus, Pablo Martín Caminero and Daniel García offer an original, innovative, and simultaneously respectful perspective on a repertoire of pieces that have gone down in history as masterpieces of universal music. They expand the label of 'classical' to works by more recent great composers such as Pat Metheny and John Williams, bringing the best of improvised music (interaction, spontaneity, the element of surprise, the ability to create in the moment...) closer to classical demands (attention to sound quality, focus on small details, phrasing, dynamics...). In a duo that takes the concept of a recital one step further.
Works by Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, John Williams, Maurice Ravel, Federico Mompou, Pat Metheny, Giacomo Puccini, Gabriel Fauré, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach... take on a new significance under the vision of two musicians in their element, blurring the boundaries between classical and jazz music.