Clarion: Music of Eve de Castro-Robinson

8.00 Clarion: Music of Eve de Castro-Robinson

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 première 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:

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Peal;

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight IV;

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Stumbling Trains;

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Hau;

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Clarion

Mere Boynton (soprano), Luca Manghi (flute), Ben Hoadley (bassoon), Ashley Brown (cello), Bede Williams (trumpet), Auckland Chamber Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes

Recorded in the Spiegeltent at Auckland Arts Festival by RNZ Concert