David Hamilton - The Ripe Breath of Autumn

David Hamilton’s ‘The Ripe Breath of Autumn’ for solo horn and chamber orchestra was sketched in 1982 and completed in 1985. David writes, “The title, which has no programmatic significance, comes from a line in a poem by American Walt Whitman. The Ripe Breath of Autumn sits rather uneasily in my total output having few stylistic similarities to other works I have written. It is a dark brooding work, and might best be described as a rhapsody.”

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Vincent Hardaker with solo horn player Norberto López García in this Resound recording captured not long after the end of New Zealand’s first pandemic lockdown.

Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.