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• David Hamilton: A Song of Ruth; audio 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2000  Year: 2000 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 4  Year: 2013 

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• Ritchie, J.: Concerto for Saxophone; computer set 

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• Ritchie J.: Concerto for Alto Saxophone; computer-set 

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• John Ritchie: Concerto - 3rd movement; audio 

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• John Ritchie: Concerto - 1st movement; audio 

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Fanfare for Orchestra was commissioned as part of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence programme to open a special concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. This short work for large orchestra follows an A-B-A structure with the archetypal brass fanfare is framed by the “bustling crowd” analogy of the other orchestral sections with much jazz-like syncopation.

• Keay: Fanfare for Orchestra; computer-set 

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• Keay: Fanfare for orchestra; computer-set 

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• Nigel Keay: Fanfare for Orchestra; audio 

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• Nigel Keay: Fanfare for Orchestra; audio 

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• Nigel Keay - Various Works 

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• Nigel Keay: Works 

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• Works for Orchestra: Farr, Blake, Keay, Bowater 

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• APO Commissions of NZ Music 1995 - 1997 

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In 1993 a Hungarian group called Muzsikas produced a CD of folk music entitled The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvannia. The recording was prompted by the discovery that Hungarian Jews before the war had their own distinct style of music, consisting of an amalgam of Jewish melodies with Hungarian performance style. Up until this time there was little known evidence of this style of music, due in large part to the holocaust. In one county, Maramaros, for instance, where 5,000 families lived before World War II, there was a large Jewish orchestra and soloists. None of these musicians survived the deportation by the Nazis. The only older players who could be found during Muzsikas’ research were two gypsies: a violinist and cimbalom player, both of whom had played for Jews before and after the war. In addition to this, a pupil of the composer Kodaly, Zoltan Simon, had made a collection of Jewish melodies. Drawing on these two sources, Muzsikas reconstructed the Hungarian-Jewish style that had been silenced for so long. The CD is a moving tribute to the power of music to survive the ravages of history, and to the people who created it.

Inspired by this recording, I decided to adopt one of the Jewish melodies in my Rhapsody. The melody is a ‘Khosid Dance’ (a popular dance at Jewish weddings) and appears in the second half of the piece, played on the violin while the piano accompanies with a cimbalom-like figure. The melody becomes the subject of variations and is also mixed with fragments of earlier themes. The use of folk melody in a piece such as this has precedent in Bartok Rhapsodies for violin and piano which date from the 1920s.

The Rhapsody begins quietly and mysteriously with a melody in the top of the piano register, which is taken over by the violin. The violin descends into the lower register and the piano plays a theme which refers to J.S. Bach’s famous chorale O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (O Head, bleeding and wounded) from St. Matthew’s Passion. The music accelerates into the allegro section and a new theme is presented, which is restless and agitated in mood. In contrast with this the piano plays a spiky and macabre theme, accompanied by pizzicato on the violin. Both themes contain short motifs which are developed during the rest of the piece, and placed in counterpoint with the ‘Khosid Dance’ when it appears. The vitality of the allegro becomes exhausted and the music gradually fades rather than ending.

Rhapsody was commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand, and written for violinist, Wilma Smith and pianist, Michael Houstoun.

• Ritchie A.: Rhapsody; computer-set 

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• Ritchie A: Rhapsody; computer-set 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Rhapsody; audio 

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This Robert Burns song was arranged for the 1995 overseas tour of my choir Opus from Epsom Girls Grammar School, Auckland. Following, involvement with the international youth choral SYMPAATTI in Finland, the choir visited Scotland and England. This arrangement was given its world premiere at our concert in Liberton Kirk, Edinburgh in early September 1995.

One printed version of the song explains the background to the song thus:
“The song embodies pretty fairly the anti-union feeling of Scotland during the 18th century. The charge of corruption which is made against the majority of the Scottish Parliament for “selling out for English gold” is repeated again and again in the Jacobite songs."

The wide ranging melody is divided between soprano I and 2 during the first two verses, while in the third verse it is initially treated as a two-part then three-part canon.

• David Hamilton: Such a Parcel of Rogues - hardcopy score 

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• David Hamilton: Such a Parcel of Rogues; audio 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 4  Year: 2013 

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At age 15, during school holidays, I hitch-hiked the length of New Zealand from Dunedin to Auckland with various side trips in between. The sheer beauty and panorama of rolling hills, lofty mountains and shimmering sea entered my soul and stayed there. Sleeping rough in the great openness somehow connected me to the natural wonders that were all around me and this connection became ingrained and part of my being.
The composing of my first symphony allowed me to relive that life changing experience and the work recalls impressions and emotions that I felt at the time, but not specific places.
-Denis Betro

• Betro: Symphony No.1; computer set 

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• Denis Betro: Symphony No.1; audio 

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• Betro: Symphony No.1 

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• David Hamilton: Road's End - hardcopy score 

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• Hamilton: Three Robin Hyde Impressions; computer set 

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• David Hamilton: Road's End; audio 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 4  Year: 2013 

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To the memory of I. S. Totzkda who died in Ravensbrüch concentration camp during World War II

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• Harris: To the memory of I.S.Totzka; computer-set 

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• Ross Harris: To the memory of I.S. Totzka; audio 

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• Ross Harris: To the memory of I. S. Totzka 

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• David Hamilton: Walk you in the Light; audio 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 4  Year: 2013 

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