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Ronald Dellow  

Air

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1990
for organ

John Rimmer  

Coils

 Year: 1989
improvised work for bass clarinet and marimba

David Hamilton  

Concertino for Oboe and Strings

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2012
for solo oboe and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    This short work grew out of the middle movement. Originally composed for violin and strings, “Memorial” was first performed in a version for oboe and strings by the chamber orchestra of St Mary’s College, Auckland. It was suggested I might like to expand this into a larger work for oboe and strings, given there was a fine young oboe player in the school.

    The completed concertino consists of a traditional three movement form: fast-slow-fast. The first movement has elements of Baroque period writing in it, including a short fugal section based on the opening melody. The second movement, “Memorial”, is a slow and poignant movement written at a time when New Zealand was experiencing a number of tragedies – the Pike River mining tragedy and the Christchurch earthquakes. The final movement, “Hoe-Down”, is a complete contrast, being a purely fun and rhythmic piece of writing suggesting the music of the old time western USA.

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Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Clarinet and Strings

 Year: 2006

Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for flute and string orchestra

Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989

David Hamilton  

Concerto Grosso No.2

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2004
for two violins, cello and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    The title of this work may seem unexpected as there is no ‘Concert Grosso No. 1’ in my list of works! However I’ve always considered my 1985 work for strings and percussion ‘Well Done, Mister Bach’ to be a concerto grosso. That work features the leaders of all five string parts as a ‘concertante’ group. In a more traditional Baroque manner, this work features just the leaders of the first and second violin and cello sections as the soloists. My intention with the work was to write something in the manner of a Baroque concerto grosso, drawing inspiration from typical styles of the period. Mixed in are my own musical and compositional preferences, so that in the end the piece might be described as ‘Baroque meets minimalism’. I finally gave into the temptation to give the three movements titles. The title, ‘Prelude’, of the first movement is a little ironic as it is longer than the remaining two movements combined. The second movement, ‘Air on a Shoestring’ suggests a rather brief, perhaps truncated air, in this case, a piece which fails to return to its home key. The final movement is in the manner of a Baroque fugue, I knew that university paper would finally come in useful one day!. ‘Concert Grosso No. 2’ was commissioned by the Music Department of St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, and follows a commission from them the previous year for ‘Whisper to me’ (for choir, strings and percussion).

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Eric Biddington  

Flute Concerto No. 2

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1990
for flute and chamber orchestra

Chris Watson  

Jangeran

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2005
for orchestra and gamelan

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4331; gamelan; perc; strings gamelan: suling, kendang, ceng ceng, gongs, 2 gangsa, 2 calung
  • Programme Note

    Jangeran seeks to bridge the musical gap between East and West: a Balinese melody is appropriated by the Western orchestra and is recast in a range of Western contexts. At various points a gamelan ensemble, embedded in the Western orchestra, emerges and reasserts ownership of the musical source materials while at other times the two bodies combine to explore new and strange syntheses of culture, movement and soundworlds.

    Jangeran was commissioned and premiered by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra in Jakarta in May 2005, conductor Edward Van Ness, with further performances in Osaka and Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Jakarta.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Kihikihi

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra of flexible instrumentation and tape

  • Instrumentation
    fls(recs),obs(rec),cls (saxs), bsns (b.cls); tpts (saxes/hns) tbns (hns/tubas), piano, 2 perc, strings, tape (most players need extra percussion)
  • Programme Note

    Kihikihi was written for an amateur orchestra with players of widely different abilities, therefore it is suitable for anything from a secondary school to a professional symphony orchestra. The conductor must have a suitably theatrical approach.

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