Clarion: Music of 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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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
8.00 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.
Eve de Castro-Robinson, Bede Williams Photo: RNZ/Tim Dodd
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
