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• Biddington: Autumn Music; facsimile 

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• Eric Biddington: Tunes and Airs  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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• John Rimmer: Centrifugues - hardcopy score  Year: 2009 

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• Seaswell  Year: 1992 

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This set of songs was written in 1987 during my time as lecturer in voice at Otago University.

The title is drawn from the second song of the set.

Herbert’s poetry has always been a delight to me and in these settings I have endeavoured to capture in music his unique and lively reflections on his relationship with God. His words are beautifully wrought and fathom deep waters making a challenge for musical setting. However I think the songs touch something of the intentions of this great metaphysical poet.

David Griffiths

• Charms & Knots - songs by David Griffiths  Year: 2011 

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• Parker: Concertino No. 2; computer set 

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• Parker: Concertino No. 2; computer-set 

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• Brent Parker: Concertino no. 1 and no. 2 

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• Brent Parker: Credo, Guitar Concertinos, En France 

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• Brent Parker: Guitar Music from Ireland and Spain 

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Flute Concerto No. 1 was written during 1987 for The Nova String of Wellington and their flute soloist, Karen Batten. This group gave the first public performance of this concerto at The Laings Road Methodist Church, Lower Hutt, during July 1988.

• Biddington: Concerto for flute and string orchestra; facsimile 

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• Biddington: Concerto for flute & string orchestra; facsimile 

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• Eric Biddington - Flute Concerto No.1 

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• Biddington: Flutes Concertos and Chamber Music  Year: 2001 

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The main theme of the first movement is built on a deliberately ‘square’ 4 note scale figure; this is interlaced with perfect 4th ‘wobbles’ and triplets and together they weave tonal games in a capricious journey.
Four rich chords (all essentially triads with added semitones) which open out, bloom and close again are the flowers displayed in the tranquil second movement, and for the final a jaunty but restrained dance through various tonalities grows out of the subtle thematic combination of notes from both C and F sharp, normally the most distant keys.

Notes taken from Ritual Auras, Atoll CD (ACD 842)

• Farquhar: Concerto for Six; facsimile 

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• Ritual Auras - Karlheinz Company  Year: 2011 

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This musical analogy to the physical phenomenon of light breaking up is written in a pointillistic style, with sinuous melodic fragments leaping across the piano keyboard in jagged cross-rhythmic dancing. Angular counter- melodies are provided by a chamber orchestra of single winds and brass with 14 strings in this single movement.

The idea of diffractions is represented in sound by the piano, central and prominent, exploiting an aspect of its technique to which it is ideally suited: rapid changes of direction and wide intervallic leaps with extreme dynamics. The orchestra provides bands of coloured spectra forming an integrated texture. The melody, oscillating and colourful is sometimes pointillistic and at other times it flows into longer continuous phrases.

Diffractions is essentially an abstract work in one continuous movement.

• Keay: Diffractions; facsimile 

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• Keay: Diffractions; facsimile 

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• Music by Nigel Keay 

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• Nigel Keay - Various Works 

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Commissioned for the opening of the new National Library building in 1987, this work was the centre piece in a concert of New Zealand music which inaugurated the Library’s auditorium. Harris chose Alistair Campbell’s poetry as he has always enjoyed its vernacular quality. Included in the ensemble are some of Harris’ favourite instruments: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flugelhorn. Harris views this work almost as a kind of unstaged melodrama. As with his To the Memory of I.S. Totzka (2000), Dreams Yellow Lions was written in a period between work on his operas and acts as a substitute for the larger compositional form. Short instrumental interludes link the songs through various emotional states. “It’s all about memories and I always imagine an old man thinking about his younger days, dreaming away, getting old and becoming sick”.

• Harris: Dreams, Yellow Lions; facsimile 

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• Harris: Dreams, Yellow Lions; facsimile 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 4 - Composer Portrait: Ross Harris  Year: 1987 

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Five Vignettes of Women was commissioned in December 1987 by Christchurch flautist, Rebecca Steel, and was first performed by her in April 1988 with a women’s choir conducted by the composer. Each work has a subtitle and the texts are taken from the writings of the subject of each song: Virginia Woolf, Olivia Spencer-Brown, Robin Hyde, Fanny Buss and Katherine Mansfield.

• Buchanan: Five Vignettes of Women; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Five Vignettes of Women; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Five Vignettes of Women; facsimile 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: Olivia from Five Vignettes of Women; Con Brio; video 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: Olivia from Five Vignettes of Women; Craighead Chorale; video 

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• Buchanan: Five Vignettes of Women 

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• Music for Vienna: Bel Canto Choir 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2005  Year: 2005 

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