Abstract:
This CD represents the culmination of work that was begun with Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (VNZ) and Horomona Horo in our first Chamber Music New Zealand Tour in 2011. From this relationship with our taonga puoro artist, we have recorded a first collaborative CD “Voice of the Soul” and since then have performed, alongside each other and with the New Zealand String Quartet (NZSQ), concerts in Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin. Our collaboration with composer Ross Harris and poet Vincent O’Sullivan has resulted in this CD Requiem for the Fallen, recorded several years after the first performance. As a result of this commission and collaboration VNZ has been asked to record Harris’s new work Face with the Auckland Philharmonia in April 2018. In November 2018, Horomona will tour with VNZ to Europe and America.This CD was recorded in 2016 after three critically acclaimed performances of the same work at the NZ Festival of the Arts, Auckland Festival and Dunedin Festival. The concerts were semi staged and accompanied by stark pictures and video from World War One.
Description:
O'Sullivan, V. (text), Harris, R.(composer), Horo, H.(composer & Taonga pūoro ), Voices NZ Chamber Choir (choir), NZ String Quartet (musicians), Greagher, R. (Tenor), Karen Grylls (Conductor)