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Christopher Blake  

Auckland!!!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1999
fanfare for orchestra

Alex Taylor  

deepwalker

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2011
work for vocalising clarinetist

  • Instrumentation
    solo clarinet
  • Programme Note

    In many ways this is a companion piece to an earlier work, Vivid for solo trumpet, which also sets a powerful, sexually charged poem by Will Christie. But where Vivid is very often overtly violent and forceful in its gestures, deepwalker is mostly much subtler, almost passive-aggressive in outlook. The opening lines of the poem – “the day is a drum that connects these vocal loops with grey traffic circles bridge after bridge” – are mirrored in the cyclical, sometimes elliptical form of the work, loops and circles that play between registers of the clarinet. Sexual tension and aggression bubble away in the background, periodically rupturing the musical surface with piercing, angular outbursts, sometimes in parallel with the rather tender, fluid lines of the low register, and with the spoken text itself. This violent interplay creates a kind of disordered internal conversation, a bizarre hermetic character opening and shutting her windows; a clarinet of many voices.

    Warning: contains coarse language

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Ashley Heenan  

Jack Winter's Dream

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1958, r. 1984
nine portraits for orchestra

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Len Songs

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2003
for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin and piano

John Rimmer  

Narcissus

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1979
for soprano, flute, trumpet, cello piano and percussion

Gillian Whitehead  

Out of this Nettle, Danger

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1983
a monodrama on Katherine Mansfield for mezzo-soprano and chamber sextet

Gillian Whitehead  

Pao

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo-soprano, piano and clarinet

  • Programme Note

    ‘Pao’ is the name given by Maori to two-lined epigrammatic songs which comment on a wide range of subjects such as love, war, politics or religion; often topical, often improvised. Most of the songs set here were collected in 1864 from Maori prisoners captured during the the land wars in the Waikato area south of Auckland. The couplets are not connected in any way except for the central group, for unaccompanied voice, concerning Pikeri, a character famous at the time for his escapades evading the police; in this instance, enforced separation during a love affair is charted.

    The English translations of these pao are used with the kind permission of the late Margaret Orbell, and come from her Maori Poetry, an introductory anthology (Heinemann, 1978).

    Pao was commissioned by the Northumberland-based Syrinx Trio, with financial assistance from Northern Arts; the first performance was given by Syrinx in Newcastle in 1981.

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Ross Harris  

Piano Prelude – A landscape with too few lovers

Duration: 03' 30"
a "landscape prelude" for piano

Edwin Carr  

Poems for Piano and Orchestra

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1988
for piano and orchestra

Dorothy Freed  

Sounds and Winds of Wellington

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
pastiche or farce for narrator and chamber ensemble