This is the first New Zealand recording dedicated entirely to works by Christchurch-born composer Christopher Blake, whose music has been commissioned by all the major performing organisations of New Zealand.

These four orchestral works, one symphony and three tone poems, were all written during the 1990s. Three draw their inspiration from places, poetry and people within New Zealand, while We All Fall Down is a threnody remembering the children of the wars of our time.

Actor Geraldine Brophy nominated this as the CD she would choose to take if marooned on a desert island, noting how “it evokes New Zealand on an epic scale for me, the infinite beauty of the smallest water droplet from the fern leaf to the magnum rage of the volcanic chain.”

Music

Echelles de Glace	Christopher Blake	09' 09"
fanfare for orchestra
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Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philip Walsh and recorded at Symphony House, Wellington, New Zealand in December 1998
Symphony - The Islands	Christopher Blake	42' 44"
for orchestra
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Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lucas Vis and recorded live at The Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand in July 1996
The Furnace of Pihanga	Christopher Blake	10' 36"
for full orchestra
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Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei and recorded at Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand in April 2002
We all fall down	Christopher Blake	08' 34"
for full orchestra
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Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,conducted by Marc Taddei and recorded at Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

Featuring

• Marc Taddei
• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Publishers

• Atoll CDs