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Douglas Lilburn  

A Birthday Offering

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1956
for orchestra

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

a pink-lit phase

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1997
for flute, viola and harp

Judith Exley  

A Song of Marigolds

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1990
for soprano and gamelan orchestra

  • Programme Note

    The poem is a reflection of the transient nature of love and life. The gamelan, being an intergral part of a traditional which sees life as cyclic, maybe offers a balance. I have endeavoured to express this polarity by using traditional materials in non-traditional ways.

    Judith Exley

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Ashley Heenan  

A William Byrd Suite

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1971
for string orchestra

Douglas Lilburn  

Allegro Concertante

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1944, r. 1945
for violin and piano

David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

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

Anthony Ritchie  

as long as time

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
for unaccompanied SSAATBB

  • Programme Note

    This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: Timepiece to a poem by Cilla McQueen; Before the Fall to a poem by Rachel McAlpine; I lie, I watch the ceiling (wordless); and We could just disappear to a poem by Sam Hunt.

    In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled Snapshots – A Cappella Choral Favourites. Conductor John Rosser writes of the work – “Anthony has a wonderful knack of writing for voice. Timepiece portrays a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time. Before the Fall alludes to lost childhood innocence, and We Could just Disappear depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind.”

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John Rimmer  

At the Appointed Time

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1973
for orchestra

Jeroen Speak  

Auxetos

Duration: 10' 00"
for string quartet

Maria Grenfell  

Blue Green Red Black

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
for percussion ensemble of four players