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Gary Daverne  

Duo Caprice

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1988
for two pianos

  • Programme Note

    Caprice was originally composed, as a commissioned work, for two duo pianos. It was premiered under the title ‘Duo Caprice’, in Auckland, July 1989. A few years later it was arranged for accordion orchestra with the title ‘Caprice’ and premiered in England by Jenny’s Accordionaires from Colchester.

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Gillian Whitehead  

Four Short Pieces

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
For solo piano

  • Programme Note

    ‘Four Short Pieces’ were commissioned for Allen’s Australian Bicentennial Anthology of piano music, published in 1988 and now long out of print. The details of the first performance are unknown; the first performance I heard was by Anna Klymashivka in Sydney in 1996. The pieces perhaps suggest nature images, but the only one that was a reaction to something specific is the last, which was suggested by watching and hearing a beck in spate (or flooded stream) on the west coast of Scotland

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Nigel Keay  

Interlude

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for piano

  • Programme Note

    Interlude for Piano is written in a pointillistic melodic style first used in the previous work for piano, Diffractions for Piano & Chamber Orchestra. Interludes is a brief, freely evolving abstract piece with a somewhat improvisational feel to it, and is concerned with splashes of harmonic colour across the keyboard in the context of sinuous angular melodic fragments, hence the suggestion of the pointillistic aspect to the work.

    It was written for the IRMT conference in Nelson in January 1988 and the piece was given its first performance by Mark Secker at the Nelson School of Music.

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Ross Carey  

Melody

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1988
for organ

John Elmsly  

Sonata

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
For solo piano

Gary Daverne  

Sonatina in G

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1988
for accordion

Ross Carey  

Three Pieces for Piano Four Hands

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1988
for piano - 4 hands

  • Programme Note

    These three pieces are quite distinct in character, but all share a free ranging tonality and an interest in descending chromatic motion. The third requires a page turner who can also show divisions of time to indicate to the performers when to change the musical textures. Composed while I was a student at Victoria University of Wellington in 1988, this piece won the University Composers’ Competition of that year. The performers on that occasion were Ross Carey and Dan Poynton.

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John Psathas  

Waiting for the Aeroplane

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
for piano