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Ross Carey  

Pastorale

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2004
for solo clarinet and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    solo clarinet in A; 1111; 1110, harpsichord (or pf), strs
  • Programme Note

    While the piece follows in a large part a pastoral ideal, darker elements at times emerge within the musical flow. I was thinking about the less savoury aspects of our ‘clean green’ country, the hidden (and not so hidden) consequences of land clearances and modern farming practices which are not in harmony with the environment. This lends the piece an almost elegiac quality, aided by the solo clarinet’s distinctive timbre and a repeated chorale heard near the end of each movement.

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Gareth Farr  

Te Parenga

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
suite for clarinet, percussion and strings

  • Instrumentation
    for solo clarinet, percussion, harp, and strings. Percussion 1 (glockenspiel, maraca), Percussion 2 (suspended cymbal, 3 toms)
  • Programme Note

    Bruce Mason’s one-man play The End of the Golden Weather is the story of a 1930s summer spent by the sea, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. It is one of the most popular and enduring works of New Zealand theatre, conveying as it does something of the nostalgia shared by most New Zealand for childhood holidays spent at the beach. Bruce Mason performed the work nearly a thousand times over tow decades from 1959, in towns and cities throughout the country, but it was not until 2000 that the play was professionally revived in a performance by Peter Vere-Jones. Gareth Farr wrote incidental music for the production, and later expanded this materials into a four-movement suite for clarinet and string with harp and percussion. The title, Te Parenga, is Mason’s name for the fictionalised Auckland beachfront suburb of Takapuna where the play is set.

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John Psathas  

Three Psalms

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 2003
for piano and chamber orchestra

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Anthony Young  

Three Songs on Poems by Jean Toomer

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2006
for soprano and chamber orchestra

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  • Instrumentation
    1111; 1000; perc. (floor tom, b.d., sus. cym., tamb., tri., vib.); soprano voice; vln 1, vln 2, vla, vc., d.b. (Clarinet in B flat and A)
  • Programme Note

    The three poems by Jean Toomer were selected for their beauty of language, wide palette of colours and imagery, and strength of feeling. I stumbled upon them while browsing a website of American poets. I had not intended to set work by an author who was so politically motivated, but the instant reaction in my heart on reading them made these a must. I must confess to not understanding the poems completely, but that air of mystery appeals all the same. I’ve attempted to set the poems in an honest and respectful way, but I have had to rely on my own interpretation and instinct in doing so. This set of songs is a quest for, or dream of, beauty, and the difficulties one meets on the way. Emotional poles are used to structure the music and highlight my interpretation of the texts.

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