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Peter Willis  

Anxome

Duration: 04' 10" Year: 2004
for B flat bass clarinet

  • Programme Note

    The title Anxome is a contraction of the word “manxome”, from the phrase in Lewis Carroll’s The Jabberwocky: “long time his manxome foe he sought”. The piece is descriptive of a state of mind: at times anxious and shy, but also playful and cheeky. It was premiered in The Committee’s ‘Lightshift’ concert. Andrew Uren performed it from a high balcony, behind the audience, who were in the dark.

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Chris Adams  

Arianna's Dance

Duration: 00' 50" Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

Clive Aucott  

At the Fair

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1984
for flute and piano

Robbie Ellis  

Banda Chiflada

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2012
for saxophone quartet

  • Instrumentation
    SATB saxophone quartet
  • Programme Note

    Banda is a genre that sprang to life in the late nineteenth century when Mexican music collided with the polka of German immigrants. Traditional bandas are centred around the sousaphone and the tambora (a bass drum with a hi-hat on top). Beyond these, you’ll find further wind, brass and percussion instruments depending on the regional style: clarinets, saxophones, alto horns, trumpets, trombones, tarolas (snare drums) and more.

    A few months before writing this piece I’d seen a YouTube video of Chicago group Banda Sincera performing before a Mexican national team football match*. The atmosphere was party, the tempo was quick, the time was compound, the licks were virtuosic, and the pulse was always getting disrupted at the ends of sections. The band would pause, the tarolero and sousaphone dude would go off on a soloistic tangent, and then the band was back in for more of the same. They even stuck a conga-based cumbia in the middle! These guys were mental and I loved it.

    When I started on a piece for Saxcess I established the reasonably serious beginnings of Huff, but I kept getting pulled down this raucous Mexican garden path. I put the serious to one side, started a new score, took a few days to get this “banda chiflada” (crazy band) out of my system, and resumed composing Huff when I was done. They’re two very different pieces, but ultimately cut from the same cloth.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1997, r. 2001
for solo bassoon

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was originally written as a twenty-1st birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997, r. 1999
for any member of the oboe family

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997
for any member of the clarinet family

Ross Carey  

Circles in Circle (Auckland Greeting)

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2003
for solo clarinet

Briar Prastiti  

Crunch Time

Duration: 03' 50" Year: 2011
for solo saxophone and fixed media

Graham Parsons  

Dance Solo 1

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2002
one movement work for recorder sextet