Eric Nathan: Double Concertos
Orchid Classics (UK)
Release date: April 17, 2026
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Double Concerto (2019) for solo violin, solo clarinet and strings
Stefan Jackiw, solo violin
Yoonah Kim, solo clarinet
New York Classical Players
Dongmin Kim, conductor
Just a Moment (2021) for two antiphonal oboes
John Ferrillo, oboe
Amanda Hardy, oboe
Double Concerto No. 2 (2023) for two solo violas and strings
Hsin-Yun Huang, solo viola
Misha Amory, solo viola
Musicians from Yellow Barn, Ariel Quartet, Jupiter String Quartet
& Parker Quartet
Eric Nathan, conductor
ABOUT
Double Concertos brings together three works by composer and conductor Eric Nathan, each exploring the expressive possibilities of paired solo voices in dialogue with space, memory, and one another. Written between 2019 and 2023, the pieces on this album grew from Nathan's long-standing fascination with how two individuals interact through sound-coming together, diverging, supporting, and remembering. The Double Concertos for violin and clarinet, and for two violas, are shaped by close personal relationships between the soloists, while Just a Moment for two antiphonal oboes reflects on distance and connection, both physical and emotional. Across the album, Nathan sets present-day musical language in conversation with older forms and gestures, drawing on spatial placement, texture, and timbre to create music that is intimate in scale yet expansive in feeling. Themes of mentorship, partnership, love, and loss run quietly through these works, performed here by long-time collaborators and musicians closely connected to the music's origins.
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