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Douglas Lilburn

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1942
for string orchestra

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1939
for orchestra

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1949, r. 1950
a cycle of four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1942
for string orchestra

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1940
for orchestra

Instrumentation
2222;4320; timp, perc; strs.
Programme Note

Lilburn was a student when he wrote Overture: Aotearoa. It was premiered in 1940, as part of the New Zealand Centennial Matinee at His Majesty’s Theatre in London. Although it did not receive its New Zealand premiere until 1959 it has since received numerous performances and several recordings. Described as a work of “unabashed optimism”, Lilburn noted that it had a, “freshness and exhilaration”.
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- Douglas Lilburn: Overture: Aotearoa - hardcopy score
  
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- National Youth Orchestra 1975
  
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- Aotearoa - Orchestral and String Music by Douglas Lilburn
  
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- Music by Lilburn and Farquhar Year: 1968
  
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- Music by Lilburn and Farquhar Year: 1969
  
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- Lilburn: A Song of Islands and other works Year: 1986
  
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- Lilburn: A Song of Islands Year: 1986
  
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- New Zealand Composers Year: 1995
  
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- Symphony of Sails Year: 2002
  
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- Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works Year: 2004
  
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- Sound Barrier Year: 2006
  
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- Lilburn: Overture: Aotearoa Year: 2008
  
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Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1946, r. 1981
for piano

Programme Note

The title comes from the first piece of the set, which was completed in 1946. The second piece, Prelude, dates from 1950 and the third from 1972, revised in 1981. These superbly evocative pieces belong together yet span different periods within Lilburn’s writing: the early, individual lyricism and the later time when he was writing almost entirely electronic music. Lilburn brings to each of the Sea Changes his breadth and sensitivity, and awareness, from a Pacific perspective, of a universal environment.
Availability
- Lilburn: Three Sea Changes; facsimile Year: 1988
  
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- Lilburn: Three Sea Changes; computer-set Year: 1996
  
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- New Zealand Sounds - October Sound
  
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- Douglas Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Volume 2
  
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- Sea Changes Year: 1986
  
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- Douglas Lilburn: Piano Music Year: 1995
  
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- SOUNZfine Volume 1 Year: 1996
  
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- Michael Houstoun: Lilburn - music for solo piano CD Year: 2012
  
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