TEARFLOODS
Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by David Temple, pairs Robin Haigh’s visionary Tearfloods: Homage to Miyazaki with Carl Orff’s vibrant and dramatic Carmina Burana
Programme
Robin Haigh TEARFLOODS: Homage to Miyazaki
Orff Carmina Burana
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Crouch End Festival Chorus
David Temple Conductor
About the programme
Robin Haigh, bold and original, writes pieces of ’scintillating unpredictability’ (Tom Service, BBC Radio 3). For this ’sea symphony’ TEARFLOODS: HOMAGE TO MIYAZAKI, for Crouch End Festival Chorus, he has been inspired by the great film director Hayao Miyazaki, whose animated films he considers to be amongst the greatest artworks of our time. Haigh has imagined in TEARFLOODS ‘an alternate reality in which every tear that has ever been cried eventually flowed down beneath the earth, forming an immense and secret underground sea.’ The choir’s words echo through the cavernous expanse of the work’s imaginary ocean as they depict the voyage of a solitary figure across these ever-changing waters.
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, topped and tailed with the famous ‘O Fortuna’, has been one of the world’s best-known choral works since it was performed and recorded by André Previn in the 1970s. In this version, two pianos and a rich spread of percussion take the role of the orchestra, their crisp texture sharpening every detail of a score that sparkles with uninhibited energy. The work is a delicious mix of innocence and bawdiness, and CEFC under David Temple promise an exhilarating ride through its various topics, including the screeches of a roasting swan and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gambling and lust.
