some other plots for Babel

 

Pieter Breughel the elder: The (Great) Tower of Babel, c.1563.

 
 

Instrumentation

Solo violin and chamber ensemble: Flute (picc./afl.), Clarinet (Eb, A, Bass), Bass Clarinet, Horn, Bass Trombone, Percussion, Violin, Cello, Contra Bass

Duration: c. 16’30”

1999 - 2000

 

First Performance

Mark Menzies (vln.), 175 East/Hamish McKeich

Hopetoun Alpha, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

6 August 2000

AUDIO

175 East 

Ingrid Culliford: flutes 

Gretchen Dunsmore: clarinets 

Andrew Uren: bass clarinet

Helen Burr: horn


Tim Sutton: bass trombone 

Lenny Sakofsky percussion 

Mark Menzies: violin 1 

Johnny Chang: violin 2 

Katherine Hebley: cello 

Daniel Stabler: double bass 

Conductor: Hamish McKeich 

Recorded by RNZ Concert at the Adam Concert Room, Wellington, 20 August 2000 

 
 
 
 
 

Commissioned with funding from Creative New Zealand