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This orchestral work with mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists was commissioned anonymously for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by “Macbeth” Act IV Sc III. The text is by Patrick McGuire and the work is in seven movements.

• Cresswell: A Modern Ecstasy; facsimile 

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• Cresswell: A Modern Ecstasy; facsimile 

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• Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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• Wells: A New Zealand Suite; computer set 

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• John Wells: From the Land of the Long White Cloud  Year: 1991 

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On request from Matthew and Anna Leese, Ritchie arranged his A Poem Just for Me as duet for soprano and baritone. The words by English poet Roger McGough describe an identity crisis brought on by the process of growing up, and the setting is simple and touching.

• New Zealand Poets in Song - Anna and Matthew Leese sing songs by Anthony Ritchie  Year: 2008 

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Ahotu is the sixth in a series of instrumental pieces based on the phases of the moon, and refers to the seventh day of the cycle. The entire thirty-day cycle has been used as one of the rhythmic generators of the piece, with vowels and consonants translated into durations to provide the apparently irrational rhythms, which are contrasted in a series of short ensemble or solo sections with either proportional or regular rhythms. The two longest sections are centrally placed. The first, featuring trombone and percussion, presents the language-based material in the percussion; the second, starting with the long piano solo, begins a mensural canon based on the proportional material. However, half-way through this canon, recapitulatory material begins, and subsequent appearances of the canon occur in continually shorter blocks, each transformed very differently. O Matenga, in the title of the piece, refers to the Maori custom, found also in many other civilisations, of providing sustenance for the spirit to the next world after death.

• Whitehead: Ahotu (O Matenga); facsimile 

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• Lontano: New Zealand Women Composers 

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Originally called A Song of Tamatea, this work was revised in 2000 to become An Offering for Parihaka.

• Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea; facsimile 

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• Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set 

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• Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set 

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• David Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea 

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• Parihaka 

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A three-movement concert suite for string orchestra, originally commissioned for the Schola Musica of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

• John Ritchie: Aquarius (Suite No. 2) - hire set 

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• Ritchie J.: Aquarius; computer-set 

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• Aquarius: Music by John Ritchie  Year: 1998 

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‘Beginnings’ was commissioned by Auckland Philharmonia. It was inspired by the birth of Ritchie’s son Tristan. It depicts the slowly mounting tension of the labour, through to the birth itself. There is a gradual growth in the music from small, delicate gestures into wild and pulsating ones towards the end. The child is represented by a ‘little Tristan waltz’ which eventually gets caught up in the musical frenzy. The waltz sequence imposes order on the music, which tends to be fragmentary and changeable. There are some echoes of Bartok and Debussy in this early work, and it presents a good challenge for a professional orchestra.

• Ritchie A.: Beginnings ; Facsimile 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Beginnings; audio 

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• Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra: New Zealand Music 1  Year: 1990 

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Young’s Brass Quintet No. 1 was composed in 1980 to a commission from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Brass Quintet. It was first performed (with Young himself playing tuba) in Wanganui and Wellington as part of the first half of an NZSO programme which included Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. The following year the work was recorded by the Quintet for the Kiwi Pacific label, along with John Ritchie’s Partita and Douglas Lilburn’s Quartet for Brass.

In writing this Quintet, Young wanted to composed a more substantial work than was common in the brass quintet repertoire of the time; consequently, it has an almost symphonic breadth.

• New Zealand Chamber Brass - New Zealand Works for Brass Quintet 

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• New Zealand Brass Quintet  Year: 1983 

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• Daverne: Caprice; computer-set  Year: 1989 

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• Gary Daverne: Accordion Concert Music 

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An essay in tension between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement long cello solos are contrasted with outbursts from the orchestra; in the second movement cello and orchestra merge – the cello sound coloured by various doublings; and the last movement is a moto perpetuo again contrasting soloist with orchestra. Premiered by cellist Alexander Baillie, conducted by Matthias Bamert and the Scottish National Orchestra.

• Cresswell: Cello Concerto; facsimile 

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• Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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