Sub Navigation

Search Music:

Search for music by typing a word or phrase in the box below or by selecting one or more categories from the list on the side.

Or search for products by selecting an option below, and typing a word or phrase in the box above

  • Scores
  • CDs and DVDs
  • Downloads
  • Education Resources

Jenny McLeod  

18 Easy Pieces

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1996
easy pieces for 1-4 players (or more)

Denise Hulford  

A prayer for the twenty-first century woman

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1999
for bass clarinet, bassoon and 2 violoncellos

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

A Resonance of Emerald

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1990
for mixed chamber ensemble

Neville Hall  

a splinter of silence in the belly of time

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1994
for string quartet and clarinet

Gareth Farr  

Ahi

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2003
for piano trio

  • Instrumentation
    for violin, cello and piano
  • Programme Note

    In January 1998 Gareth Farr was commissioned by the James Wallace Chariable Trust to write this Piano Trio for the Ogen Trio, a leading NZ ensemble. Taking its subtitle Ahi from the Maori word for “fire”, it received its debut performance in Auckland, NZ in March 1998 in the presence of the composer. The style of the work varies in each of the four movements: the flavour of a French lullaby predominates in the first; an intense and unrelenting second movement harbours overtones of a Russian military factory; whilst a Balinese pop-inspired fourth movement contains numerous gamelan-like effects. The brief third movement is merely a quiet interlude, with a melodic reference to the first movement. The composition stands in stark contrast to Farr’s previous works. He has experimented with stripping away the density characteristic of past compositions in favour of clearer textures, exploring classical form, and allowing a simplicity of line to come through and speak for itself.

  • Availability

Christopher Marshall  

An Emily Dickinson Suite

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2009
for wind ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    piccolo, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 4 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bassoon, 2 horn in F, 3 trumpet, 2 trombones, euphonium, tuba, string bass, timpani and percussion
  • Programme Note

    An Emily Dickson Suite takes the form of nine vignettes inspired by the eight poems. I chose these particular poems not to fulfill any kind of programme or theme, but because they were the ones that spoke most strongly to me in musical terms at first reading.

    In order to get to know the poems I initially set them as if the choir and then used the wind ensemble palette to better capture the contrasting moods and spirit of each poem. in most cases it is still possible to hear clearly the patterns of the words within the melodies. So in a real way these vignettes are ‘songs without words’. Dickson did not give her poems titles. However I have titled each of the vignettes from the first line of each poem.

    Christopher Marshall

  • Availability

Philip Brownlee  

As if to catch the fleeting tail of time

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2009
for guitar and ensemble

Thomas Goss  

Broken Glass

Duration: 17' 05" Year: 2000
a suite for violin and guitar

  • Programme Note

    Broken Glass portrays a dialogue between two opposing natures about the passing of beauty as represented by the two instruments of guitar and violin. It is a meditation on how two people create the ending within themselves for their mutual story, and collaborate through both tension and surrender to bring that ending to life.

  • Availability

Jenny McLeod  

Cat Dreams

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2008
for nine players

  • Instrumentation
    for piccolo, koauau (or second piccolo), flute, clarinet in B flat, percussion, marimba, vibraphone, harp and piano
  • Programme Note

    My brother and his partner had two black cats, Doris, the elder (and undisputed boss), was half the size of Stanley. The cats arrived one day quite unheralded, realised they were onto a good thing, and promptly settled down as rulers of the house. In old age Doris went slightly spastic and wonky. We all thought she would go first, but she lived my brother.

    Jenny McLeod

  • Availability

Christopher Blake  

Clairmont Triptych

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
for wind quintet and piano

  • Instrumentation
    flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano
  • Programme Note

    Clairmont Triptych was written in fulfilment of a commission by Chamber Music New Zealand for the Auckland Wind Quintet with pianist David Guerin to perform on a New Zealand tour in 1988.

    The music derives its inspiration and impetus from the work of the New Zealand painter Phillip Clairmont (1949 – 1984). He was something of an enfant terrible of the New Zealand art world, living his life and his painting with a reckless passion and energy. His work is vibrant and strong, conveying an intense and energetic power. Aspects of these elements are captured in the music, although it is not programmatic, but connects with paintings through analogy and allusion. Amongst the profusion of themes and ideas there are two prominent recurrent subjects in Clairmont’s work – the domestic interior and the self portrait. These form the thematic base of the first two of the three inter-linked movements of the work. The first movement, Interiors, mirrors the fractured vibrancy of the Clairmont interiors by use of a very fast toccata-like movement in sequences of fluctuating tempo. This creates a continuously “flexing” aural effect which reflects the unsettling quality of the images. The second movement, Self Portraits, uses a recurring three note motif C-B-Bb. These are the composer’s initials (C-H-B in German), thus the self portrait becomes ambiguous. The music seeks to realise to an extent the technique and viewpoint of the self portraits. The third movement, Jimi Rocks, refers to the influence of rock music on Clairmont’s painting, particularly during his studies and the early part of his career in Christchurch. The three movement formal structure is a musical equivalent of the triptych format Clairmont often used in his painting.

  • Availability