April 17th, 2026 — Congratulations to Eric Nathan (CRF 2022) on the release of his new portrait CD, Double Concertos (Orchid Classics), out today!
The 2nd double concerto was composed at Civitella. You can find an essay Eric wrote about the experience in the liner notes booklet.
Eric writes in his newsletter annoicing the release:
“This album is extremely dear to my heart and features some of the favorite music I have composed: my two Double Concertos and oboe duo Just A Moment. It features my CD debut as a conductor and is recorded by an all-star cast of musicians and ensembles.”
“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.”
Download the album booklet and get your copy of the CD today.