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David Griffiths  

Beata Virgo

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1974
for 12 part (SSSAAATTTBBB) choir

Jack Speirs  

Cantico del Sole

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for soprano soloist, mixed choir and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3000;0330; perc, hp, pf; strings
  • Programme Note

    Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

    The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

    In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

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Felicity Williams  

Carol of the New Zealand Bush

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for SATB choir

Jack Body  

Carol to St. Stephen

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1975
for soprano, alto and tenor soloists and SATB choir

John Ritchie  

Lord, when the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1957
for SSATB choir

David Hamilton  

Lux Aeterna

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1979
for unaccompanied SSAATB choir

Ronald Tremain  

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1961
for soprano solo and SATB choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Missa Brevis

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1963
for unaccompanied SATB

  • Instrumentation
    Sanctus is in 7 parts
  • Programme Note

    Whitehead has always had an affinity with the music of the sixteenth century, for three years she sang in Peter Godfrey’s choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Auckland, where the repertoire included Byrd’s four part mass. This experience meant that the writing of this work came naturally. Written while studying in Wellington, the Mass is one of the first of her works that Gillian heard performed; the Victoria University choir conducted by Robert Oliver sang selected movements, while its first complete performance, in an otherwise ‘all Bach’ concert by the Leonine Consort in Sydney, was broadcast on television. The reviewer of this concert, Roger Covell, wrote ‘Gillian Whitehead’s Missa Brevis easily rose to the challenge of justifying its presence, (showing) rare understanding of how to write for concerted voices; everything she calculated on paper worked in practice in this tenderly beautiful performance’. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

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Ronald Tremain  

Psalm 100

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1977
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Qui Natus Est

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1966
carol for SATB