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Maria Grenfell  

Ceol na Fidhle

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1999
for violin and percussion

John Rimmer  

Millennia

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
arranged for large brass ensemble and percussion

John Rimmer  

Murmures

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1995
for piano, percussion, flute, clarinet, violin and cello

Chris Watson  

Piano Quintet

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1999

Hugh Dixon  

Raga Rewa

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1996
for flute, violin, cello (or horn) and tabla

Ross Carey  

Sakura

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1992
for alto flute and three violas

  • Programme Note

    Written while I was studying in Osaka on a Japanese Government scholarship before undertaking my main period of study in Hiroshima; an ode to the sakura (cherry-blossom) so beloved by the people of Japan. The triadic harmonies played by the three violas are interspersed with solo passages on alto flute; their forces later unite in a chorale (choreographed by a Noh dancer?) before a brief coda closes the work.

    First performed at Victoria University of Wellington and again in the Auckland Philharmonia Ensemble Philharmonia concerts in June and July 1994.

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Kit Powell  

Salmagundi

 Year: 1998
for brass ensemble and percussion

Ross Carey  

Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1994
for alto flute/flute, guitar and cello

  • Programme Note

    The title Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ‘The Great Harbour of Tara’ is the original Maori name for Port Nicholson, commonly know as Wellington Harbour. I conceived the piece while living in the hillside suburb of Roseneath, where from certain vantage points the harbour lies enticingly at one’s feet in several directions. The piece is in three movements.

    I. Entwining melodic figures on alto flute, joined by guitar and cello relate a time before any human presence around this body of water; the hills and valley are alive with the sounds of birds and insects.

    II. Energetic motions convey the great Earthquake of the 1400s, which raised the land where Wellington airport now stands; the ensuing calm of the changed landscape is indicated by an ascending motif over an open fifth.

    III. A contemporary portrait; the busy lives of the inhabitants scattered all around the quiet presence of the great harbour of Tara.

    Written for guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, the work received its premiere in ‘Green Concerts Volume Two’ held at ALTI Hall, Kyoto, in April 1995.

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Neville Hall  

the way time accumulates

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1993
for chamber septet

Juliet Palmer  

Trellis

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1998
for alto saxophone, bass clarinet and cello