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Ray Twomey  

Ascension (Opus 18-V2)

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1998
arrangement for high voice duo and piano

  • Programme Note

    Inspired by these words…

    “And if I go, while you’re still here Know that I live on, vibrating to a different measure, behind a thin veil you cannot see through. You will not see me, so you must have faith. I wait for the time when we can soar together again, both aware of each other. Until then, live your life to its fullest. And when you need me, Just whisper my name in your heart, I will be there.”

    Colleen Corah Hitchcock, 1989

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Bryony Jagger  

Ave Verum Corpus

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1977
for counter-tenor, two tenors, baritone and bass

Rosemary Russell  

Coastal Sunset

Duration: 02' 43" Year: 2003
for SATB vocal ensemble or chamber choir

  • Programme Note

    One evening driving south along the Kapiti coast I was captivated by the sun setting into the sea which turned an oily steel blue while an early moon appeared above me. The gradual fading of light created sharp shadows in the hills while at the same time the western sky turned salmon and was ornamented with a few wispy clouds. The gum trees at Mackay’s crossing were lit up like flames. I wrote the words as I drove… The piece is an art song for SATB quartet or chamber choir.

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Dorothy Freed  

Fair and Fair and Twice as Fair

Duration: 04' 00"
For soprano and tenor with string trio

Rosemary Russell  

Hawk

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 2003, r. 2011
for SATB ensemble and piano

  • Programme Note

    The solitary hawk rides the air with apparent ease.The elegant flight belies the need and intent to kill..so beware. The Al Capone of the air, cruises with shushing wingbeats and with no mercy.

    A dramatic work suitable for an SATB ensemble of able soloistic voices and full piano.

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Pepe Becker  

Hoquetus Sanctus

Duration: 04' 20" Year: 2008
for vocal octet

  • Instrumentation
    SSAATTBB with clapping and/or hand percussion (stones or wooden clap-sticks)
  • Programme Note

    This work was written as a commission for Baroque Voices, with funding from Creative NZ, to be premiered at the Baroque Voices “Alleluia: a newe work!” concert in May 2008. The concept of the performance is to juxtapose Contemporary New Zealand works with Medieval European ones – and in this case, Hoquetus Sanctus pairs well with Hoquetus David (written by Guillaume de Machaut in the 14th Century), as it explores the idea of hocket, where vocal lines are ‘shared’ between different voices, sometimes jumping from one to another and overlapping each other – however, it can equally well be performed in any choral concert.

    Hoquetus Sanctus is a setting of the Latin Sanctus text for a capella chamber choir or small vocal ensemble.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

I Also Have My Song to Sing

Duration: 03' 00"
arrangement for vocal duo and ensemble

Pepe Becker  

O Ecclesia

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 2010
for high-voice ensemble, treble recorder and hurdy-gurdy or organ

Samuel Gray  

Remembering

Duration: 03' 01" Year: 2010, r. 2011
for female voices and instrumental ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    3 female voices, 2 flute, clarinet, alt saxophone, bariton saxophone, horn in F, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, large bass drum
  • Programme Note

    During the Srebrenica massacre – Europe’s largest genocide since the Second World War – over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered in a single day. Against the background of increasing anti-Islamic sentiment and rhetoric in numerous countries, composer Samuel Gray wants us to remember the atrocities that have been committed against Muslims in recent European history so as to encourage a more balanced view of Muslim people than the contemporary diatribe that casts all Muslims as terrorists and extremists.

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Maurice Faulknor  

Ruakaka Bay

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1997
Duet for Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano with Piano