Eric Nathan: Multitude, Solitude

Momenta Quartet

Catalog #: TROY1586
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Format: Digital
Chamber

Composer Eric Nathan, a 2013 Rome Prize Fellow and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, has garnered acclaim internationally through performances at the New York Philharmonic's 2014 Biennial, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festival, Aldeburgh Music Festival, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, to name but a few. He was composer-in-residence at the 2013 Chelsea Music Festival and Chamber Music Campania. A graduate of Yale and Indiana University, he received his doctorate at Cornell. He is assistant professor of music at Brown University. Nathan's music conveys a compelling and infectious energy--virtuosity in the service of defining musical drama and character. In the seven works in this collection--three solo and four small-ensemble pieces--there's often a thrilling hint of vicarious danger. Performed by some of the most noted performers of contemporary music, including the Momenta Quartet, this recording serves as a fitting introduction to this brilliant young composer's music.

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Four to One Eric Nathan Momenta Quartet
Quartet for Oboe & Strings Eric Nathan Peggy Pearson, oboe; Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello
As Above, So Below Eric Nathan Joseph Alessi, trombone
Three by Three Eric Nathan Mei Rui, piano
Toying Eric Nathan Hugo Moreno, trumpet
Ommagio a Gesualdo Eric Nathan Momenta Quartet; Samuel Rhodes, viola
Multitude, Solitude Eric Nathan Momenta Quartet

Reviews

  • Critic's Choice 2016 American Record Guide

  • "Eric Nathan is a gifted composers whose works are played here by first-rate perform-ers."

    – American Record Guide

  • "The expert performances reveal a young composer with his own style and certainty, forthright, never overbearing, but at the same time not burdened by excessive reserve."

    – Jay Harvey Upstage

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