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Lyell Cresswell  

A Modern Ecstasy

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
for baritone, mezzo soloists and orchestra

John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

Anthony Ritchie  

A Poem Just for Me

 Year: 1988
arranged by Anthony Ritchie for soprano, baritone and piano

Eric Biddington  

A Short Overture

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1986
for chamber orchestra

Clare Maclean  

A West Irish Ballad

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1988
for unaccompanied choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Ahotu (O Matenga)

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1984
for chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    flute, trumpet, cello, percussion, 2 keyboard (2 pianos, celesta, harpsichord)
  • Programme Note

    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.

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David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

John Ritchie  

Aquarius: Suite No. 2 for String Orchestra

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1982

Eric Biddington  

Autumn Music

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1987
for viola and piano

Jenny McLeod  

Azure

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1983
for SATB choir and piano