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Lissa Meridan  

devil on a wire

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello and live electroacoustic diffusion

Daniel Stabler  

Farewell

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2003
a rhapsody for cello and piano

  • Programme Note

    Farewell attempts to integrate a number of diverse musical influences ranging from traditional Maori through nineteenth century European to modern American jazz and South American tango. The body of the piece is melodic and harmonious, but is framed by abstract episodes. To achieve these abstract sounds, the Cello plays microtones and a few varieties of distortion effects, some sounding as birds. The piano is ‘prepared’ by inserting a small piece of foam rubber under the lowest octave of strings and also by having the player strum directly on the strings with either a piece of felt or a rubber piano tuner’s mute. As the title suggests, Farewell includes elements of nostalgia, mystery, and pathos. The feelings one may have on saying good-bye to the present and viewing the future with a bit of apprehension. A time for re-evaluation.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Meditation

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2008
for violin and piano

  • Programme Note

    Meditation was commissioned by Tessa Petersen and John Van Buskirk for performance in a concert celebrating the opening of the Chinese Gardens in Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008. The piece takes an ancient Chinese poem as its point of departure, a text that focuses on Nature and its relationship to humans. The music spontaneously expresses thoughts of Nature and beauty, using simple ideas based around modes, repeated ostinati, and a mixture of long melodic lines and shorter motifs. Various timbres on both instruments are explored, and the pianist plays on the strings of the instrument with mallets at the beginning and end of the piece. The piece is structured in 3 main sections: slow-faster-slow, and all sections are played without a break.

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William Harsono  

Music for Agus

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
one movement work for violin and Indonesian Zither

Philip Brownlee  

Sinew/Synapse

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello

Vivienne Sands  

String Quartet: In Memoriam - Matyas Seiber

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 2004
for string quartet

Nigel Keay  

Tango Suite for String Quartet

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2002
for string quartet

  • Instrumentation
    1. TANGO; 2. POEMAS DE AMOR; 3. CAPRICHO; 4. VIDA; 5. TÚ, QUE NUNCA SERÁS...
  • Programme Note

    Tango Suite was originally commissioned by Radio France in 2002 and written in the same year, It is a short song cycle which sets the poetry of Argentinian poets and was first recorded in Paris at Radio France by Madeleine Jalbert – contralto, Quatuor Diotima (Nicolas Miribel, Eiichi Chijiiwa, Franck Chevalier, Pierre Morlet), & Jean-Olivier Bacquet – double bass. The original version was broadcast in January and April 2003 on France Musiques, and in August 2003 on France Culture.

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John Rimmer  

The Dance of the Sibyl

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2002
for solo violin

Helen Bowater  

This Desperate Edge of Now

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2007, r. 2012
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    The string quartet is inspired by a poem by Mervyn Peake:

    ’Is there no Love can Link us?’

    Is there no thread to bind us- I and he

    Who is dying now, this instant as I write

    And may be cold before this line’s complete?

    And is there no power to link us- I and she

    Across whose body the loud roof is falling?

    Or the child, whose blackening skin

    Blossoms with hideous roses in the smoke?

    Is there no love can link us- I and they?

    Only this hectic moment? This fierce instant

    Striking now

    Its universal, its uneven blow?

    There is no other link. Only this sliding

    Second we share: this desperate edge of now.

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Michael Williams  

Vertigo

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2000
for cello and piano