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Dorothy Ker  

and the rain...

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
for double SATB choir

Anthony Ritchie  

as long as time

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
for unaccompanied SSAATBB

  • Programme Note

    This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: Timepiece to a poem by Cilla McQueen; Before the Fall to a poem by Rachel McAlpine; I lie, I watch the ceiling (wordless); and We could just disappear to a poem by Sam Hunt.

    In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled Snapshots – A Cappella Choral Favourites. Conductor John Rosser writes of the work – “Anthony has a wonderful knack of writing for voice. Timepiece portrays a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time. Before the Fall alludes to lost childhood innocence, and We Could just Disappear depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind.”

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Kit Powell  

Dies Irae

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1995
For children's (or women's) voices and piano

Anthony Ritchie  

Dogwobble and other Songs

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1990
songs for mixed SAB choir and flexible instrumental ensemble

Ronald Dellow  

Fanfare and Finale

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
fanfare and finale for massed choirs and narrator

Craig Utting  

Five Campbell Songs

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1990
for choir, viola and piano

Juliet Palmer  

Helen

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1997
for counter-tenor, chorus, violin, cello, percussion and organ

David Griffiths  

Lie Deep, My Love

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1996
a cycle of three settings of poems by James K. Baxter for SATB choir and soloists

  • Programme Note

    Lie Deep My Love was finished in 1996 and written especially for the New Zealand National Youth Choir who have since performed them frequently. The first song, Lie Deep My Love, depicts the grief and longing for a departed love; the second, Earth does at length, the inevitability of our mortality; and in the third, Blow, wind of fruitfulness, the spirit of the wind is implored to stir life into all creation again.

    Use is made of low bass tessitura, solo voices and canons to create specific colours and textures in the vocal writing and to help characterise those images of New Zealand Baxter was so fond of depicting.

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Graham Parsons  

Missa Brevis

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
mass setting for unaccompanied SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    A 4 part (and alternative 3 part for SSA) unaccompanied setting of the Latin Mass for choir. There are times when voice parts divide in order to fill out a chord. Each section of the mass is short, and hence may be used in either an ecclesiastical setting by a trained choir, or as part of a choral concert.

    This Mass setting for unaccompanied SATB choir has been widely used by cathedral choirs in New Zealand and is available in both SATB and SSA combinations.

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Graham Parsons  

Missa Brevis

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
for unaccompanied SSA choir

  • Programme Note

    A 4 part (and alternative 3 part for SSA) unaccompanied setting of the Latin Mass for choir. There are times when voice parts divide in order to fill out a chord. Each section of the mass is short, and hence may be used in either an ecclesiastical setting by a trained choir, or as part of a choral concert.

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