Norberto López Photo: screenshot ex APO video
David Hamilton’s ‘The Ripe Breath of Autumn’ for solo horn and chamber orchestra was sketched in 1982 and completed in 1985. David writes, “The title, which has no programmatic significance, comes from a line in a poem by American Walt Whitman. 'The Ripe Breath of Autumn' sits rather uneasily in my total output having few stylistic similarities to other works I have written. It is a dark brooding work, and might best be described as a rhapsody.”
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Vincent Hardaker with solo horn player Norberto López García in this recording captured not long after the end of New Zealand’s first pandemic lockdown.
Recorded by RNZ Concert at the APO's concert without audience, 'The Soldier's Tale'
Auckland Town Hall, 12 June 2020
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay
