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This cycle of five songs for baritone and piano was awarded the Philip Neill Prize by the University of Otago in 1991. It expresses five perspectives on the concept of time, some humorous and some more contemplative.

• Grenfell: A Pinch of Time...; facsimile 

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• Grenfell: A Pinch of Time...; facsimile 

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• Grenfell: 2 pieces from "A Pinch of Time..."; computer-set 

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• Kowhai - an album of songs by NZ women composers  Year: 1994 

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• Grenfell: selected works 

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• Burning Bright - four NZ women composers  Year: 1999 

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This music was originally commissioned by Richard Campion for the New Zealand Players’ production of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Ahhouil, translated by Christopher Fry. In the second act there is a ball taking place offstage and demanding a large number of dances which are specified in the text.

The music was first recorded on acetate discs by a ad hoc orchestra led by Alex Lindsay; these small recordings were then played through speakers for the production, sounding very loud to the cast but filtering out more gently to the audience. At the end of the long national tour, the cast knew the music very well and suggested to me that I should do something with it.

The result, some years later, 1957, was a suite of nine dances first performed by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra. This rapidly became my most performed piece and was commercially recorded by the Alex Lindsay Orchestra in the 1960s, a recording still available today from Kiwi Pacific Reords.

Ashley Heenen, through the NZ APRA Committee, commissioned an arrangement for full orchestra for the NZ Youth Orchestra to take on a tour of Europe and China in 1975. This version was shortened to six dances by leaving out the first three numbers. The music has also been used for a ballet, The Wintergarden, choreographed by Arthur Turnbull for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company – this version included a tenth dance not in the 1957 Suite. Since 1975 two further version have been commissioned: Waltz Suite (1989), for string orchestra (five dances) for the Nova Strings, and an arrangement of the original Dance Suite (1992) for violin and piano (nine dances) for Isador Saslav.

• Farquhar: Short Suite from Ring Round the Moon; computer-set 

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• Farquhar: A Short Suite from Ring Round the Moon; computer-set 

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• Farquhar: Short Suite from Ring Round the Moon; computer set 

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• SOUNZ Orchestral 1993 

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• New Zealand Composers  Year: 1995 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands; facsimile  Year: 1996 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 2 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands and other works  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1986 

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• Douglas Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1987 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Music  Year: 1995 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works   Year: 2004 

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• Wild Music   Year: 2004 

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• Hall: a splinter of silence in the belly of time; facsimile 

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• Hall: a splinter of silence in the belly of time 

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• Neville Hall: Selected Works 

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This piano suite contains five pieces describing the local scenery and legends of Achill Island in Ireland.

• Parker: Achill Suite; computer-set 

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• Parker: Achill Suite and Other Works  Year: 2003 

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• Nigel Keay: Adagietto Antique; audio 

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• Nigel Keay: Music for Small Groups  Year: 2011 

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In January 1998 Gareth Farr was commissioned by the James Wallace Chariable Trust to write this Piano Trio for the Ogen Trio, a leading NZ ensemble. Taking its subtitle Ahi from the Maori word for “fire”, it received its debut performance in Auckland, NZ in March 1998 in the presence of the composer. The style of the work varies in each of the four movements: the flavour of a French lullaby predominates in the first; an intense and unrelenting second movement harbours overtones of a Russian military factory; whilst a Balinese pop-inspired fourth movement contains numerous gamelan-like effects. The brief third movement is merely a quiet interlude, with a melodic reference to the first movement. The composition stands in stark contrast to Farr’s previous works. He has experimented with stripping away the density characteristic of past compositions in favour of clearer textures, exploring classical form, and allowing a simplicity of line to come through and speak for itself.

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• Gareth Farr: Ahi; video 

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• Ogen Trio - Piano Trios by Beethoven, Dvorak and Farr  Year: 1999 

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• New Zealand Trio - Spark  Year: 2004 

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• Ahi - The Ogen Trio  Year: 2008 

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• New Zealand Sonic Art Vol II  Year: 2000 

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These three pieces for solo piano were commissioned by pianist Michael Houstoun. Each is concerned with aspects of deja vu or ‘second sight’ including sensations of past lives, strangely familiar places and the cyclical nature of experience. The second of these pieces is published by SOUNZ in First XV.

• Blake: Ancient Journeys; facsimile 

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Michael Houstoun - Elusive Dreams  Year: 1996 

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• Christopher Blake: Ribbonwood is Home  Year: 1998 

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These pieces were originally piano duets, written with one easy part for my wife to play, and presented to her on various anniversary occasions in the 1960s. This orchestral suite was arranged for the 1965 Cambridge Summer Music School, and first performed there by the school’s orchestra. The translation from piano to orchestral sounds makes many opportunities for variety of colours and for real sostenuto. But while orchestral sound is bound to be very different, I have attempted in the Trio of the Mexicana to capture something of the effect of the piano’s harmonic resonance to provide sustaining echoes of the oboe’s tune.

• Farquhar: Anniversary Suite No. 2; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Anniversary Suite No. 2; facsimile 

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• David Farquhar: Auras  Year: 1997 

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