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• Rimmer: A Song of Humility; facsimile 

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• Cecilian Singers: Alleluia  Year: 2003 

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This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: Timepiece to a poem by Cilla McQueen; Before the Fall to a poem by Rachel McAlpine; I lie, I watch the ceiling (wordless); and We could just disappear to a poem by Sam Hunt.

In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled Snapshots – A Cappella Choral Favourites. Conductor John Rosser writes of the work – “Anthony has a wonderful knack of writing for voice. Timepiece portrays a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time. Before the Fall alludes to lost childhood innocence, and We Could just Disappear depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind.”

• Ritchie A.: as long as time; facsimile 

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• Ritchie, A: as long as time; facsimile 

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• Ritchie A.: as long as time; facsimile 

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• Change Change Change... IAMIC Concert 2008 

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• Music by Anthony Ritchie 

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• Snapshots: A cappella choral favourites  Year: 2001 

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• Edwin Carr: Orchestral Works  Year: 1986 

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Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

Anthony Young

• Young, A.: Be Still; computer-set 

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• Young, A.: Be Still; computer-set 

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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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• Griffiths, D.: Beata Virgo; facsimile 

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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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• 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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• 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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• de Castro-Robinson: Chaos of Delight III; computer-set 

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• de Castro-Robinson: Chaos of Delight III; computer-set  Year: 2006 

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• Eve de Castro-Robinson 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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

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• McLeod: Childhood; computer-set 

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• McLeod: Childhood; facsimile  Year: 1988 

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• Jenny McLeod: Childhood 

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• Jenny McLeod: Childhood 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 4  Year: 1985 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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• NZ National Youth Choir on Tour North America  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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