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• Jagger: A New Day Dawns; facsimile 

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The ultimate string quartet – four cellos. A large range in pitch and emotional intensity.

• Utting: Adrift; computer-set 

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In the isolated settlement of Ahipara in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand a tiny white church sits on a hillock looking out to a range of low brooding hills. In the cemetery below, an angel stands on a pedestal at the head of a grave. One day in 1992 renowned New Zealand photographer Robin Morrison came to the church and captured the essence of the angel’s vigil in a memorable and famous image.

In late 1997 the composer Chris Blake travelled to Ahipara and stook in the same place and experiences the same image. The outcome was a short work for string orchestra which captures the hope and desolation of the angel and the memory of the soul over which she stands guard. The work was created for conductor Andrew Sewell and is based, at his suggestion, on a passage from an earlier work We All Fall Down for obliggato cello and orchestra.

This work is one of a series of four, making up The Northland Panels. They were written and premiered as separate works.

• Christopher Blake: Angel at Ahipara - hire set 

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• Christopher Blake: Angel at Ahipara; audio 

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• Christopher Blake: Angel at Ahipara  Year: 2012 

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This work borrows ideas from the Cook Islands where I spent 6 months in 1988. I studied the traditional music and instruments and have been greatly influenced ever since. arc of the sun is in three sections (dawn/day/dusk) featuring some Cook Island musical ideas and characteristics – a fusion of their exciting instrumental drum dance and vibrant polyphonic vocal music.

As a work for wind orchestra, arc of the sun was first performed in 1997.

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It is impossible to live in Wellington without paying attention to its environment, or the environment paying attention to you. Equally, it is impossible to leave without carrying an interior imprint of its sharp green hills, scudding clouds, dragon sea, and particularly for me, those days when it suddenly all stops leaving the city suspended between a hush of blue sky and a seemingly frozen harbour. Blue Kisses Green is somehow ‘about’ this elemental ferociousness, delicacy, and beauty.

• Dugal McKinnon: Blue Kisses Green (Mono) 

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• McKinnon: Blue Kisses Green; computer-set 

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• Williams, M.: Diadrom; computer set 

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• Williams, M.: Diadrom; computer set 

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The Double Concerto was designed to explore the unusal combination of solo instruments, extend the soloists and, at the same time, be performable by regional orchestras.

The opening movement has a lilting quality and is based on the Brahms’ lullaby, which only appears (abridged) at the end, played on glockenspiel. The three themes that appear in this movement are related, in some way, to this lullaby. The movement is dedicated to my daughter Annabelle, who was born some months before the composition of this work. A short melody based on letters from her name (A-A-B-E-E) is played by the soloists in the coda.

By contrast, the second movement is fast and jagged, with a somewhat playful second theme shared between the soloists and woodwinds. The main theme has a toccata-like quality, and builds up to a strong conclusion.

Whereas birth was the theme behind the first movement, it is death that concerns the third, and in particular the sudden death of a close friend and musician, Angela Campbell, at the time of writing this concerto. It is an intimate piece for the two soloists only, and based on letters from Angela’s name (A-G-E-A) which are heard at the beginning as a recurrent bass line. The cello melody at the start is a variation on a melody from the first movement, suggesting birth and death are inextricably linked.

The mood lightens in the finale which is a slightly bizarre waltz based on two contrasting themes. Near the end, the soloists have a cadenza which flows into the coda uninterrupted.

• Anthony Ritchie: Double Concerto for bass clarinet and cello - hire set 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Double Concerto for bass clarinet and cello - hardcopy score 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Double concerto for Bass clarinet and Cello 

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• Remember Parihaka - orchestral music by Anthony Ritchie  Year: 2009 

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• Utting: Eight Short Pieces; computer-set 

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• Marshall: Hikurangi Sunrise; computer set 

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• Wild Music   Year: 2004 

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For advanced violin and piano performers, this is a descriptive piece with duet interplay between the parts.

• Caskie: Light and Shade; computer-set 

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