Clarion - Music by Eve de Castro-Robinson
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Peal
8:01 PM.Performed by soprano Mere Boynton with Eric Renick playing tubular bells, at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020. Read more Video, Audio
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BEETHOVEN arr Weingartner: Grosse Fuge in B flat Op 133
7:30 PM.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich Recorded 24 October 2020, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert Read more Audio
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HAYDN: Symphony No 64 in A, Tempora mutantur
7:30 PM.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich Recorded 24 October 2020, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert Read more Audio
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MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550
7:30 PM.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich Recorded 24 October 2020, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert Read more Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight IV
8:02 PM.Performed by flutist Luca Manghi and bassoonist Ben Hoadley at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020. Read more Video, Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Stumbling Trains
8:03 PM.Performed by cellist Ashley Brown at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020. Read more Video, Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Hau
8:04 PM.Performed by soprano Mere Boynton at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020. Read more Video, Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Clarion
8:05 PM.Performed by Bede Williams (trumpet) and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020. Read more Video, Audio
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Clarion - complete concert
8:00 PM.A concert devoted to the music of Eve de Castro-Robinson, recorded at the Auckland Arts Festival, 16 March 2020. Includes introductions from the composer in conversation with Tim Dodd. Read more Audio
8.00pm Clarion - Music by Eve de Castro-Robinson
Composer Eve de Castro-Robinson Photo: Supplied
In a concert from the 2020 Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland composer Eve de Castro-Robinson sounds an alert on climate change – a programme including the New Zealand premiere of her work for trumpet and chamber orchestra, Clarion, written for Scotland-based Kiwi player Bede Williams.
From the AAF website: "Research shows that an understanding of our warming climate can be seen in the carbon being layered in the growth of the conch shell. Like the shell, de Castro-Robinson builds up instrumental layers in Clarion building gradually to its cataclysmic climax with the trumpeter utilising a range of calls and cries, keening, moaning, alerting, and sounding a warning to us of our need to act in the current climate emergency.
"Fittingly, in creating this work, de Castro-Robinson and Scotland-based, New Zealand-born Williams collaborated across the seas."
The programme is rounded out with other works by de Castro-Robinson, each of which in its own way calls on us to take heed.
Programme:
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Peal - Mere Boynton (soprano), Eric Renick (tubular bells)
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight IV - Luca Manghi (fl), Ben Hoadley (bsn)
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Stumbling Trains - Ashley Brown (cello)
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Hau - Mere Boynton (soprano)
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Clarion - Bede Williams (tpt), Auckland Chamber Orchestra/Peter Scholes
Recorded by RNZ Concert in the Auckland Arts Festival's Spiegeltent, 16 March 2020
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay