The album's pieces are infused with themes of relationship, mentorship, remembrance, love, and loss, exploring connections between pairings like husband and wife, teacher and student, and living and deceased.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Eric Nathan's album explores how two voices interact in sound, seeking meaning in how two people can come together, separate, console, and celebrate through music.
Recording & Production
The recording of 'Just a Moment' for two oboes was made in Jordan Hall with a spatial arrangement where one oboe was onstage and the other in a balcony, to embrace the audience with sound.
Composition History
Double Concerto No. 2 was commissioned in memory of Roger Tapping, a beloved teacher and violist, and was premiered and recorded by an orchestra composed of his former students.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The cover art for the album, taken in a cemetery, shows a tree growing around a metal fence, reflecting the composer's inspiration from Ovid's myth of Baucis and Philemon, who grew into a single tree.
Composition History
The soloists for the album's double concertos and duos were chosen based on their deep personal relationships: married couples Stefan Jackiw (violin) and Yoonah Kim (clarinet), and Misha Amory (viola) and Hsin-Yun Huang (viola); and teacher-student colleagues John Ferrillo (oboe) and Amanda Hardy (oboe).
Performer Biography
Yoonah Kim, the solo clarinetist, was the first solo clarinetist to win the Concert Artist Guild International Competition in nearly 30 years, and the first woman to win first prize at the Vandoren Emerging Artists Competition.
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