Double Concertos
Orchid Classics
Featuring:
Stefan Jackiw (solo violin)
Yoonah Kim (solo clarinet)
John Ferrillo (solo oboe)
Amanda Hardy (solo oboe)
Hsin-Yun Huang (solo viola)
Misha Amory (solo viola)
Dongmin Kim (conductor)
Eric Nathan (conductor)
Ariel Quartet
Jupiter String Quartet
Parker Quartet
New York Classical Players
Musicians from Yellow Barn
Performing:
Double Concerto for solo violin, solo clarinet and strings
Just a Moment for two antiphonal oboes
Double Concerto No. 2 for two solo violas and string
ABOUT
Over the past five years, I’ve found myself on a journey exploring how two voices interact in sound. I’ve sought meaning in how two people can come together, separate, console, exhort, celebrate, and remember one another through music. This search has been deeply rewarding musically and personally, as it has opened new paths in my work and new friendships through collaboration.
Themes of relationship, mentorship, remembrance, love, and loss infuse the music on this album. I have imagined the sonic connections between two voices engaging with forces larger than themselves – whether the orchestra and the resonance of the hall, or, outside the musical realm, the pairings of husband and wife, teacher and student, individual and collective, living and deceased, distance and closeness, past and future.
While composing Double Concerto No. 2, I thought of Ovid’s myth of Baucis and Philemon – a couple who, following their long lives together, grew into a single tree. Denise Burt’s cover art for this recording, taken in a cemetery where her husband’s parents are buried, shows a tree growing around a metal fence whose top resembles an ossified flame. Its fragile beauty captures a small part of what I hope these pieces express.