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Chris Gendall  

Agitato

 Year: 2007
for chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1111; 1110; perc; piano; single strings
  • Programme Note

    ‘Agitato’ is a conventional musical indication for a restless or agitated mode of performance. This is often interpreted as forward-momentum without any conscious acceleration, affecting an uneasy connection with the beat. In this piece the Agitato aspect is composed into the musical fabric as constant gestural and rhythmic variation.

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Leonie Holmes  

Aquae Sulis

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2012
for orchestra of winds, strings, harp and percussion

William Harsono  

Death, the Hell

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2003
three movement work for chamber orchestra

John Rimmer  

December Nights

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1970
for chamber orchestra

Michael Norris  

From the Lonely Margins of the Sea

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2001, r. 2005
for piano and small orchestra

Larry Pruden  

Harbour Nocturne

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1954
for small orchestra

Gillian Whitehead  

Hoata

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1979
for chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    121(+bs-cl)2;2000;timp;strs
  • Programme Note

    ‘Hoata’ was written in 1979, while I was composer-in-residence for Northern Arts and a Fellow of Newcastle University, for the Northern Sinfonia, who, conducted by David Haslam, gave the first performance during the Newcastle Festival later that year. I wrote the piece, named for the Maori phase of the moon when the new moon is barely apparent, while I was living on the Northumbrian moors north of Hexham. It was a cold winter, and the snow around the small remote cottage, which was not well insulated, lay around for four months as blizzard followed blizzard, and something of the isolation and the environment seems to have got into the piece. ‘Hoata’ consists of sections built up in a mosaic-like manner, separated by freer sections, which may be cadenzas, or have a degree of improvisation; there is at times perhaps a suggestion of birdsong.

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Jenny McLeod  

Little Symphony

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1963
for chamber orchestra

Lyell Cresswell  

Of Smoke and Bickering Flame

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2002
concerto for chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2 fl, 2 ob+ C.A, 2 cl, 2 bsn; 2 hn, 2 tpt; strings
  • Programme Note

    “And from about him fierce effusion roll’d Of smoke and bickering flame, and sparkles dire” John Milton Paradise Lost Book IV Smoke and bickering (or flashing) flame surround Messiah’s chariot “driving into the midst of his enemies” on the third day of the battle against Satan and his Angels. Unable to resist “they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepar’d for them in the Deep: Messiah returns with triumph to his Father”. With consignment to “The Deep”, I imagine Satan’s followers must be faced with many conflicting emotions – even nostalgia for their past condition. “Of Smoke and Bickering Flame” comprises eight short movements. The movements are related to each other in pairs after the following pattern: I and VI, II and V, III and VII, and IV and VIII.

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Dylan Lardelli  

Pan Awakes

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2009
for orchestral wind & brass