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Ross Harris  

And death shall have no dominion

 Year: 2007
for string quartet

Jonathan Crehan  

Bittersweet Memories

Duration: 02' 30" Year: 2001
for violin and piano

Pieta Hextall  

Cyclic Currents

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2006
for string quartet

Keith Statham  

Elena's Waltz

Duration: 03' 04" Year: 2006
for string quartet

Maarire Goodall  

Haere ra Tuahangata

 Year: 2001
prelude and fugue for violin duo

  • Programme Note

    The title indicates a final farewell to a Hero, famous as one of New Zealand’s most important composers. The prelude is a lament, a wordless song that is mesto, thoughtfully sad, rather than gloomy. A motif quoted from Aotearoa Overture identifies the Hero, and us. The lyrical pensive prelude melody is composed with modal phrases evocative of Lilburn’s background. The fugal part energetically celebrates his academic status and international fame with a theme derived from transformations of the heroic E flat motif from Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony; this emerges only when my theme unravels its transformations towards the end. Just before the end each violin refers to the New Zealand National Anthem, and there is an impassioned cadence in the relative key of c-minor, but the last fading sound is an ambiguous interval. After Lilburn, what next?

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Keith Statham  

Happy Days

Duration: 04' 36" Year: 2006
for string quartet

Keith Statham  

"Ina" an original Scottish Air

Duration: 03' 34" Year: 2005
for string quartet

Anthony Ritchie  

Meditation

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2008
for violin and piano

  • Programme Note

    Meditation was commissioned by Tessa Petersen and John Van Buskirk for performance in a concert celebrating the opening of the Chinese Gardens in Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008. The piece takes an ancient Chinese poem as its point of departure, a text that focuses on Nature and its relationship to humans. The music spontaneously expresses thoughts of Nature and beauty, using simple ideas based around modes, repeated ostinati, and a mixture of long melodic lines and shorter motifs. Various timbres on both instruments are explored, and the pianist plays on the strings of the instrument with mallets at the beginning and end of the piece. The piece is structured in 3 main sections: slow-faster-slow, and all sections are played without a break.

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Rachael Morgan  

Pania

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2004
for solo viola

  • Programme Note

    In writing this piece I was influenced by the concept of differing perspectives of time and also by Berio’s Sequenzas. I have tried to incorporate his idea of creating a polyphonic type of listening through the use of contrasting motifs, textures and tempi. The title for the work came during the writing process and led the piece to be slightly programmatic. According to Maori legend, Pania is a sea-goddess who ventured onto land only at night. There she met a man who later became her husband and together the couple bore a son. Wishing his family wouldn’t return to the sea with every sunrise, the husband cast a spell on the pair. The spell however, had the opposite effect. Pania and the boy returned to the sea forever where she became a reef, lying with her arms outstretched towards her husband.

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Keith Statham  

Pastorale

Duration: 06' 50" Year: 2005
for string quartet