Performed by soprano Mere Boynton with Eric Renick playing tubular bells, at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020.
Mere Boynton, Eric Renick Photo: RNZ/Tim Dodd
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells...
In ‘Peal’ the processional voice and hand bells of Mere Boynton and the tubular bells of Eric Renick herald the beginning of the Auckland Arts Festival’s ‘Clarion': featuring music by Eve de Castro-Robinson’.
The words are taken from ‘In Memoriam (Ring out, wild bells)’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Recorded by RNZ Concert in the Auckland Arts Festival's Spiegeltent, 16 March 2020
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay
