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David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Kit Powell  

Devotion to the Small

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1988
a song cycle for soprano and five percussionists

John Elmsly  

Dialogue 1

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1988
for flute/alto flute and piano

  • Programme Note

    This specially commissioned work was first performed at the 1988 International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. The musical material is derived fromt he piano’s opening bar, and the resulting style combines the appealing simplicity of triadic harmonies with mathematical processes. There are three clear sections marked by the changes from flute to alto flute and back: outer sections exploiting the clarity and brilliance of the usual C flute, and a rich cantabile middle section for the larger (so deeper) alto flute where the piano provides a gentle accompaniment built on a a slowly contracting ostinato-like figure.

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Noel Sanders  

Goethe Nightsongs

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1988
A song cycle for voice and piano

John Elmsly  

Sonata

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

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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Edwin Carr  

Two Mansfield Poems

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1988
for oboe d'amore or cor anglais (english horn) and piano