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Douglas Lilburn  

'Six Short Pieces'

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1962
for piano

David Farquhar  

A Unicorn For Christmas

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1962
an opera in three acts

Ray Twomey  

Cinc! (Opus 5)

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1962
for marimba (or mandolin) and harp (or piano)

Jenny McLeod  

Epithalamia

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1962
a song cycle for baritone and piano

  • Programme Note

    Written in McLeod’s second year of study at Victoria University, this piece shows influences of Benjamin Britten and David Farquhar. The text is a poem by W. S. Broughton, the older brother of one of her childhood friends. She was drawn to the poem because it expressed the disillusionment with religion she herself was experiencing at the time.

    Being a student work, Epithalamia has been somewhat neglected by performers, and has only recently been ‘rediscovered’. The youthful composer’s impressive self-confidence, both in the expressive use of the voice and in the effective piano writing is obvious. (Programme note: Mark Jones).

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Jenny McLeod  

Little Symphony

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1963
for chamber orchestra

Ronald Tremain  

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1961
for soprano solo and SATB choir

Ray Twomey  

Marlborough Overture (Opus 7)

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1962
for orchestra

Gillian Whitehead  

Missa Brevis

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1963
for unaccompanied SATB

  • Instrumentation
    Sanctus is in 7 parts
  • Programme Note

    Whitehead has always had an affinity with the music of the sixteenth century, for three years she sang in Peter Godfrey’s choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Auckland, where the repertoire included Byrd’s four part mass. This experience meant that the writing of this work came naturally. Written while studying in Wellington, the Mass is one of the first of her works that Gillian heard performed; the Victoria University choir conducted by Robert Oliver sang selected movements, while its first complete performance, in an otherwise ‘all Bach’ concert by the Leonine Consort in Sydney, was broadcast on television. The reviewer of this concert, Roger Covell, wrote ‘Gillian Whitehead’s Missa Brevis easily rose to the challenge of justifying its presence, (showing) rare understanding of how to write for concerted voices; everything she calculated on paper worked in practice in this tenderly beautiful performance’. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

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