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John Rimmer  

Adieu KS

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2008
for solo violin

  • Programme Note

    Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez have long been in my group of compositional heroes. Not that I have always understood or accepted what they were doing but rather because they opened new vistas of compositional processes.

    Stockhausen in particular offered composers new ideas about the way music is structured. His ‘moment’ forms made a deep impression and his early electronic music pieces Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte blazed new pathways. They are classics in the music of the twentieth century.

    Adieu KS for solo vioklin is my musical way of offering a deep sense of gratitude to Karlheinz Stockhausen. This short hommage nods in the directly of Stockhausen’s early Sonatina for violin and piano and utilises a sequence of pitches from this work. Fragments contrast with continuity, melody with violinistic sounds and movement with stasis.

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Jack Body  

Aeolian Harp

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1979
for solo violin

Jack Body  

Aeolian Harp

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1999
for solo cello

  • Programme Note

    This piece was inspired by the beguiling sounds of the aeolian harp to which I was first introduced by Chris Cree Brown. Said to have been first ‘discovered’ by the ancient Greeks, aeolian harps are intended to be played not by human hands, but by the wind. The strings vibrates through a range of harmonics creating an eerie effect difficult to describe.


    Jack Body

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Christopher Prosser  

Brightest Day

Duration: 01' 05" Year: 2001
for violin

Douglas Lilburn  

Canzonetta No.1

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1942
for violin and viola

Douglas Lilburn  

Canzonetta No.2

Duration: 01' 15" Year: 1943
for violin and viola

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Commemoration

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1988
for solo cello

Neville Hall  

darilo

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1999
miniature for two cellos

  • Programme Note

    A short tribute to John Rimmer for his 60th birthday, scored for two cellos. A very compressed and active piece focusing on microscopic modifications of pitch and timbre. Based on a spectral analysis of John Rimmer’s name. Premiered in Auckland by Coral Bognuda and Tom Pierard.

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Keith Statham  

Elena's Waltz

Duration: 03' 04" Year: 2006
for string quartet

Martin Lodge  

Epitaph for Douglas Lilburn

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 2001
for solo cello