Double Concerto for Violin and Flute was the first orchestral commission Dr. Subramaniam received from the Los Angeles-based new American Orchestra in 1983. For the premiere, there were two soloists for the composition with the orchestra -- Dr. Subramaniam on the violin and Mr. Hubert Laws on the flute. In this album, the flute soloist is Michael Martin Koefler.

Double Concerto is based on a "neo-fusion" idiom, created by the composer in the early 70s taking the best of both Eastern and Western classical systems of music. Though the piece is based on three movements -- fast, slow and fast -- the elements of the first movement also appear in the other movements thus creating a new form using both the Western Concerto and the Indian 'Kriti' forms.

There are solo improvisational sections in each movement in which the Indian violin soloist improvises using the microtonal, modal system while the Western soloist uses the tempered system of Western classical music. There is a very strong blend of the tempered and