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Dorothy Buchanan  

3 Sketches for Wind Octet

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1981
for wind octet

Lyell Cresswell  

A Modern Ecstasy

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
for baritone, mezzo soloists and orchestra

John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

A Resonance of Emerald

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1990
for mixed chamber ensemble

Eric Biddington  

A Short Overture

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1986
for chamber orchestra

Clare Maclean  

A West Irish Ballad

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1988
for unaccompanied choir

David Farquhar  

ABC

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for SATB choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Ahotu (O Matenga)

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1984
for chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    flute, trumpet, cello, percussion, 2 keyboard (2 pianos, celesta, harpsichord)
  • Programme Note

    Ahotu is the sixth in a series of instrumental pieces based on the phases of the moon, and refers to the seventh day of the cycle. The entire thirty-day cycle has been used as one of the rhythmic generators of the piece, with vowels and consonants translated into durations to provide the apparently irrational rhythms, which are contrasted in a series of short ensemble or solo sections with either proportional or regular rhythms. The two longest sections are centrally placed. The first, featuring trombone and percussion, presents the language-based material in the percussion; the second, starting with the long piano solo, begins a mensural canon based on the proportional material. However, half-way through this canon, recapitulatory material begins, and subsequent appearances of the canon occur in continually shorter blocks, each transformed very differently. O Matenga, in the title of the piece, refers to the Maori custom, found also in many other civilisations, of providing sustenance for the spirit to the next world after death.

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Ronald Dellow  

All who Love and Serve your City

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1989
for unison choir and organ (or piano)

John Rimmer  

Alleluia

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1987
for SA choir