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Douglas Lilburn  

A Birthday Offering

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1956
for orchestra

David Hamilton  

A Child Comes Forth

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 2006
for SSA choir with percussion and harp

  • Programme Note

    This work was written at the request of conductor Elise Bradley for her highly regarded choir Key Cygnetures at Westlake Girls High School (Auckland).

    It was intended for a ‘mid-winter Christmas’ concert which was to also feature Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. I therefore felt happy to turn to Christmas texts with some of the more traditional Christmas references (snow etc).

    The first text is from the fifteenth century and is a general text mentioning Mary, the manger, the wise men, and the gifts they brought, and ends with call to delight in the Christ child. The second text, by G.K. Chesterton contains images of snow and night, and ends with the line that gives the work its overall title. The third text is a variant of the carol ‘I saw three ships come sailing in’ and may refer either to the medieval myth that Joseph and Mary travelled to England, or obliquely to purported journeys of the relics of the wise men. The fourth text is a lullaby by nineteenth century poet John Addington Symonds. Again the wise men and their gifts are mentioned along with the shepherds. The final text is another anonymous one, and is simply a brief and energetic welcome to ’heaven’s King’.

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David Farquhar  

Anniversary Duos

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1961, r. 1993
for two guitars

David Farquhar  

Bachiana

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1994
for wind quintet

David Farquhar  

Bachiana No. 2

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
six chorale preludes from JS Bach's Little Organ book arranged for wind quintet

Jack Body  

Carol to St. Stephen

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1975
for soprano, alto and tenor soloists and SATB choir

Clare Maclean  

Et Misericordia

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1986
for unaccompanied choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Five Songs of Hildegard Von Bingen

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1976
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Gary Daverne  

Gallipoli

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 2003
rhapsody for trumpet and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    full symphony, harp 4 perc
  • Programme Note

    Gallipoli was composed in memory of the World War I battle that took place between Turkey and Anzacs, symbolizing as a whole, the mutual good relations of the countries of Turkey, Australia and New Zealand, which are in friendly relations in our day. The message given by Turkey’s leader Ataturk after the war was one of humanism and friendship. This is still commemorated by both the ANZACs and the Turks with great importance every year.

    The idea of writing this solo work for trumpet was born when Erden Bilgen met the composer in Auckland. It became formalized with the composer’s visit to Gallipoli in 2001 and a subsequent meeting between the two in Istanbul. Written in rhapsodic form in one movement, the music is not intended to interpret the horrors and negative aspects of war, but more the emotions and reflective times of the young ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp.) and Turkish troops summoned to war on Turkish ground.

    The opening trumpet fanfare is the call to war. In the middle section the composer uses a traditional folk theme from the Turkish region of Canakkale. There is a short cadenza and the orchestration requires a large symphony orchestra.

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Robin Fazakerley  

Jubilate

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1999
for trumpet, chamber orchestra and pipe organ