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John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

Michael Vidulich  

Aotea Suite

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987
for string orchestra

Gillian Whitehead  

Bright Forms Return

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1980
for mezzo-soprano and string quartet

  • Programme Note

    Bright Forms Return written in 1980 while I was composer-in-residence for Northern Arts (UK), is one of the first pieces I wrote that is concerned with landscape (and sea-scape). I was living in Northumberland, on the moors north of Newcastle, very near the house where Kathleen Raine had spent her childhood. When I was asked to write a piece for the Cumbria Quartet and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Lamb, Raine’s poetry was an obvious choice, as its northern imagery was very familiar to me.

    Although the piece is designed as a single entity, the quartet falls into four clearly-defined sections in its setting of the four short poems. The vocal writing is relatively simple (rhythmically at least), and the writing for the quartet sometimes reflects the poetic imagery or mood, and is sometimes derived from the formal structure of the poems. The text, which comes from The Oval Mirror published by Hamish Hamilton, is used with the kind permission of the author and her publishers.

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Martin Lodge  

Cantus Intus

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1980
intuitive music for piano or other solo instrument

John Elmsly  

Cello Symphony

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1986
for solo cello and orchestra

Andrew Perkins  

Chants Montage

Duration: 26' 00" Year: 1984
for organ

Robert Burch  

Concertino

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
for solo horn, piano and string orchestra

Kit Powell  

Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Percussion

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989, r. 2004

Ross Harris  

Dreams, Yellow Lions

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987
for baritone and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    violin, violoncello, soprano saxophone, flugelhorn and bass clarinet
  • Programme Note

    Commissioned for the opening of the new National Library building in 1987, this work was the centre piece in a concert of New Zealand music which inaugurated the Library’s auditorium. Harris chose Alistair Campbell’s poetry as he has always enjoyed its vernacular quality. Included in the ensemble are some of Harris’ favourite instruments: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flugelhorn. Harris views this work almost as a kind of unstaged melodrama. As with his To the Memory of I.S. Totzka (2000), Dreams Yellow Lions was written in a period between work on his operas and acts as a substitute for the larger compositional form. Short instrumental interludes link the songs through various emotional states. “It’s all about memories and I always imagine an old man thinking about his younger days, dreaming away, getting old and becoming sick”.

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Murray Biggs  

Four Oriental Pieces

Duration: 28' 00" Year: 1983
for flute and percussion