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Anthony Ritchie  

Piano Sonata 1988

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1988
for solo piano

  • Programme Note

    This work is dedicated to the composer’s piano teacher, Rosemary Miller Stott. It is in three contrasting movements. The first, an allegro, is in sonata form, and features nervous, darting ideas which become more animated in the middle section. The second movement opens with a chorale-like theme, expressing feelings of nostalgia. The fidgety middle section builds up more tension, before being combined with the chorale theme. The finale releases the tensions of the earlier movements, and has a happy, sunny character. Initially inspired by a Beethoven sonata, the rondo theme builds up to a big climax before ending quietly.

    Piano Sonata 1988 (opus 29) was written when the composer was Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago.

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Edwin Carr  

Sonata

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1969
for solo violin

Douglas Lilburn  

Sonata 1949

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1949
for piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Sonata 1950

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1950
for violin and piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Sonata 1956

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1956
for piano

Anthony Watson  

Sonata for Solo Viola

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1969

Douglas Lilburn  

Sonata in A minor

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1939
for piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Sonata in E Flat

 Year: 1943
for violin and piano

Edwin Carr  

Sonata No.1

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1955
for piano

  • Programme Note

    “During two years of study in Rome, with Petrassi at the Conservatorio di Santa, I had scholarships to attend the famous summer school at the Academia Chigiana in Siena. During the second one in 1955, this sonata was composed in the space of ten days and performed by the New York pianist Leonard Mastrogiacomo (first two movements) and his fiancee Eleanor (last movement). The same two pianists performed the work in Rome shortly afterwards.”

    The Sonata has been performed by Gordon Watson, Malcolm Binns ad Margaret Kitchin on the BBC.

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Anthony Ritchie  

The Blue Sonata

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 1999
for cello and piano