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This wonderful recital piece for 12 part (SSSAAATTTBBB) choir has been performed all over the world and is one of the composer’s best-known works.

It was written in 1974 as part of a set entitled O Magnum Mysterium and first perfromed by the Dorian Choir under Peter Godfrey at the 1975 Three Choirs Festival in England. Since then it has been recorded by choirs in New Zealand and the United States.

The piece is essentially simple in its form using delayed overlaying if the voice parts to startling effect. The overshadowing of Mary by the Holy Spirit, the gestation in the womb and the birth of Jesus can be clearly heard in the parameters of the work.

• Griffiths, D.: Beata Virgo; computer-set 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• The Moon is Silently Singing  Year: 1994 

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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”.

• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Cantico del Sole 

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• Williams, F.: Carol of the New Zealand Bush; facsimile 

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• Music by Felicity Williams 

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A “deconstruction/recomposition” of a fifteenth century carol for 3 soloists and choir on the martyrdom of St Stephen. This dramatic work has become a standard text for study in schools through New Zealand. It has been recorded by the New Zealand National Youth Choir.

• Body: Carol to Saint Stephen; facsimile 

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• Jack Body: Carol to St Stephen  

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• Ritchie J.: Lord when the sense of thy sweet grace; computer-set 

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• John Ritchie: Lord, When The Sense of Thy Sweet Grace; video 

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• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

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• Southern Youth Choir in Concert 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• A Sound Came from Heaven  Year: 2007 

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• The Jubilate Singers: Southern Landscapes  Year: 2011 

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Scored for unaccompanied SSAATB voices this work is probably the most widely performed piece by David Hamilton. It has been recorded twice and performed on tour by visiting choirs including the choir of Christ’s College Cambridge (England) and the St. Olaf Choir from Minnesota (USA).

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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• David Hamilton - Music for Mixed Voice Choirs Vol. 1 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 5  Year: 1985 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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• Hamilton: Lux Aeterna  Year: 1988 

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• Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs  Year: 1990 

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• When the morning stars sang together  Year: 1997 

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• Tower New Zealand Voices: Spirit of the Land  Year: 2006 

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• Tremain: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; facsimile 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 1  Year: 1986 

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• Sings Harry Vocal Ensemble: the lover's ghost  Year: 1998 

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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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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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First performed at Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester by Dorian Singers conducted by Peter Godfrey, this work for unaacompanied SATB choir was commissioned by Bledisloe family in memory of Lord Bledisloe, former Governor General.

• Tremain: Psalm 100; facsimile  

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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• Whitehead: Qui Natus Est; facsimile 

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• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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• Christmas Under Capricorn  Year: 1992 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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