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Ross Carey  

A Won for Buddha

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2001
for piano - four hands

  • Programme Note

    Counting through the tones of ‘In a Landscape’ by John Cage, in the manner of counting a rosary. The title means an offering to Buddha; this is not so much a material offering but more that of a good heart.

    Composed in Toronto in June, 2001 and first performed by the Natsuki Emura Piano Duo in a concert of New Zealand piano music at MusiCasa, Tokyo in October 2001.

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Brent Parker  

Achill Suite

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2002
for piano

David Farquhar  

Anniversary Suite No. 1

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1961
for orchestra

David Farquhar  

Anniversary Suite No. 2

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1965
for orchestra

Rachael Morgan  

Armannai

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2003
for string orchestra

Christopher Norton  

Carol Jazz

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1982
improvisations on five Christmas carols for piano

Denise Hulford  

Christmas Bells

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1995
for choir, tenor saxophone and piano

  • Programme Note

    The 100 Voice Chorale based on the North Shore of Auckland commissioned Denise Hulford to write a Christmas Carol for the Choir. After spending some time searching for a poem with a happy tone to it, and not being able to find anything suitable, Denise commissioned Jenny Pattrick to write a poem. The poem that Jenny provided was exciting, accessible and quite humorous. The final work was a fun and Christmas focused composition which was most successful, and approximately the length of a short Cantata. The work has been performed a number of times, and has always been well received.

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David Hamilton  

Christmas Here and There

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2011
for SATB choir and brass band

  • Programme Note

    This short cycle examines the differences between northern and southern hemisphere experiences of Christmas. These differences are encapsulated in Margaret Mahy’s early poem Christmas in New Zealand which contrasts the colours of a summertime Christmas with the images of snow and robins on Christmas cards. The second piece sets a Christina Rossetti poem which suggests that Christ’s birth was early in the day watched only by the angels and the animals. The third piece sets a traditional text which describes the typical landscapes of a northern hemisphere Christmas – the bare tress and the animals foraging for food. The fourth movement is a piece for band alone, which picks up on elements of the opening movement as well as varied treatment of fragments from the well-known carol “Good King Wenceslas”. The final piece sets a widely anthologized poem of unknown authorship. It humorously returns us to a summertime Christmas where there‘s no snow, and where Santa might end up with a suntan in the “Pacific summertime” Christmas.

    Christmas Here and There was commissioned by South Auckland Choral Society for the choir’s end of year concert 2011.

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Brent Parker  

Concertino No. 2

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for solo guitar and piano

John Ritchie  

Concerto for Alto Saxophone

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1998
for E flat saxophone and small orchestra