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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight II

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1996
for soprano (with two metal thumb clickers)

Dorothy Freed  

Deserted Beach

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1993
for soprano and string quintet

Tecwyn Evans  

Elegy for my Grandfather

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1994
for baritone and piano

Dorothea Franchi  

Four Pioneer Portraits

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1949, r. 1950
a cycle of four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano

Judith Exley  

Four Small Songs

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1993
for soprano and piano

Anthony Ritchie  

He moemoea

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1992
for mezzo soprano and piano

Aroha Yates-Smith   Hirini Melbourne  

Hinemokemoke

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for female voice and taonga puoro

Hirini Melbourne  

Nga Tamariki o te Kohu

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2002
for voice, taonga puoro, guitar, and kapa haka

Lyell Cresswell  

Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1979
for solo mezzo soprano

John Rimmer  

Pukeko

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1972
for soprano, flute/piccolo, oboe, horn, cello, piano

  • Programme Note

    Pukeko is a setting of a poem by the prominent New Zealand writer Ian Wedde and was composed in 1972 while John Rimmer was the Mozart Fellow and Ian Wedde was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The piece follows the mood of the poem with demonstrative gestures in the opening – ‘the mind can fly like a cool blue Braque bird straight to the heart of a storm’ through to the delicate textures of ‘but consider the pukeko going doubtfully on spindly legs among swamp grasses’.

    At the end an improvisation features some of the players whispering the last line ‘poor ludicrous fowl’ while the soprano hums previous motives ad libitum and the horn and cello provide high wailing sounds.

    Pukeko was first performed at Milton High School on 7 August 1972 during a tour of Otago schools by the Marama Players of the Department of Music, University of Otago.

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