Clod Ensemble’s first production featured a seven-piece group live on stage. All played acoustic instruments – including several sections involving saucepan-percussion.
This extract, captured on two microphones just before rehearsal, is from the only existing recording of this piece. We used these recordings (on a cassette!) in rehearsals whenever the musicians were not in the rehearsals. This is a short passage from the first act of the show – a wordless movement sequence.
Music - Paul Clark
Violins - Calina de La Mare
Viola - Sophie Sirotta
Cello - Nick Allen
Sax/Flute - Nick Stephenson
Clarinets - Niall Webb
Piano - John Paul Gandy
Percussion/MD - James Keane
“the piece is made by the string and wind orchestra. The rhythms swing from hysteria to ecstasy, abject fear to abandonment, ending on an intractable note of grief. Paul Clark's brilliant score juggles the melodies of Bartok, Schnittke and Warner Brothers cartoons to a surreal, out of time effect.”
The Independent (1996)
In the midst of a terrible plague a group of friends attempt to celebrate life, together.
To mark our 25th year we are revisiting our first production and inviting you to contribute to the creative process. Twenty-five years ago today, we began to rehearse CLOD ENSEMBLE’s first-ever production. It...
