Crouch End Festival Chorus, led by David Temple, presents the world premiere of Robin Haigh’s TEARFLOODS: HOMAGE TO MIYAZAKI and Orff’s Carmina Burana at Cadogan Hall in a thrilling choral concert.

Inspired by the “singular imagination” of the Japanese animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Haigh has used the filmmaker’s work as a funnel for his own creativity to write TEARFLOODS, his first symphony and largest work to date. 

In this ‘sea symphony’ written for Crouch End Festival Chorus, Robin Haigh has imagined “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, with the famous ‘O Fortuna’, is one of the world’s best-known choral works. In this version, two pianos and a rich spread of percussion take the role of the orchestra. The work is a delicious mix of innocence and bawdiness, and this performance promises an exhilarating ride, including the screeches of a roasting swan and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gambling and lust.
Duration: approx. 2 hours 15 mins (incl. interval)

PROGRAMME
Robin Haigh TEARFLOODS: HOMAGE TO MIYAZAKI (world premiere)
Orff Carmina Burana

PERFORMERS:
Ana Beard Fernández* soprano
Ruairi Bowen* tenor
Dominic Sedgwick* baritone
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Coldfall School Choir*
Harrison White, 8-string guitar
Peter Jaekel and Rufus Frowde, pianos
London Orchestra da Camera, percussion
David Temple conductor
*appearing in Carmina Burana

TICKET INFORMATION
£33, £25, £18, £12
Concessions:
Under 40s: 40% off (subject to availability)
Students and Under 18s: all tickets £10 (not available online)