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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

Pieta Hextall  

Bridge of Remembrance

Duration: 05' 35" Year: 2006
for full orchestra

David Hamilton  

Elysian Fields

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra

Alex Taylor  

Noughts and Crosses

Duration: 07' 45" Year: 2009
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4331; 2perc; timp; strings
  • Programme Note

    Noughts and Crosses is a series of five satirical vignettes, re-scored from an original set of piano miniatures. The pomp and swagger of the opening is almost immediately undercut by a mischievous woodwind tune, supported by snare drum and rhythmic string pizzicati. This brief and playful first movement ends abruptly, the mood turning seriously Wagnerian and self-important with the full power of the orchestral brass blaring in octaves. Relentless sforzandi and crescendi give way to a single clear horn line, before collapsing back into solemnity. Now the spiky arpeggios of the first movement return, bassoon and clarinet leading a jaunty escapade through fast, limping rhythms. The fourth movement is a passacaglia reminiscent of Shostakovich, arching perpetually downwards into dark string gloom before bursting into a raucous Bartokian crash-and-bash finale.

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Pieta Hextall  

Portrait

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2009
for full orchestra

Jeremy Mayall  

Symphony No. 1

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2004
for turntables and orchestra

Don Blume  

The Coming of Spring

Duration: 18' 00"
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3(piccolo)221; alto saxophone;2211; timp; perc; strs
  • Programme Note

    The opening running chord is this work suggests the first day of spring with first the dawn opening to the promises of a beautiful spring day.

    The work is in three movements – “morning”, “afternoon” and “evening”. The “morning” movement is in the form of a light-hearted dance suggestive of lambs in the field fill of the joy of living as they jump and play about in the green grass.

    “Afternoon” gives the impression of a leisurely walk in the countryside. However this is interrupted with a short storm with thunder and rain following. This storm soon passes and the afternoon walk is resumed.

    In the third movement, “Evening”, you will be aware of a gathering of the villagers to celebrate the coming of spring with an evening of dancing, laughter, merry-making and conversation.

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Matthew Davidson  

Trois Oeuvres de Rameau

 Year: 1999
for orchestra

Yvette Audain  

Wake Road in the Rain

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2006
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    (1)1121; 2200; mba, vib.; strings
  • Programme Note

    This piece is inspired by the day of a private function I played at in Wake Road, Coatesville, north-west of Auckland. Needless to say it was a rainy day – but at times the rain abated; at times it grew more intense than before; at times it only served to illuminate the natural beauty of the scenery up in that area of Auckland. In this piece, I have tried to capture all of this. The more ‘flowing’ aspects of the piece were intended to capture the sometimes cathartic nature of rain, and the occasionally abrupt changes in feel, texture and tonality were inspired by the abrupt changes in weather that we in Auckland often experience!

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