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Gillian Whitehead  

Three Windows in the Weather

 Year: 2008
for reciter, piano and bassoon

  • Programme Note

    Three Windows in the Weather was written after a six-day visit to Dusky and Doubtful Sounds in Fiordland in October 2007. Ten artists (poets, visual artists, a composer and a film-maker) travelled on the Breaksea Girl to create work as a fund-raiser for the Caselberg Trust, who are restoring the Broad Bay house of Anna and John Caselberg for use for artist residencies.

    Richard Henry was possibly New Zealand’s first conservationist, who rescued kakapo and other endangered birds, creating a sanctuary on Resolution Island, until, several years later, he saw a stoat swimming nearby, and realised the sanctuary was compromised. The second poem, Wet Jacket Arm, makes reference to the threatened biodiversity of the region, and the third refers to a gale experienced one night on the Breaksea Girl.

    The official first performance, with Greg O’Brien reading his own poems, was in St Paul’s Cathedral in the Otago Festival of the Arts on October 8th, 2008. A ‘preview’ performance was given on September 26th by Ben Hoadley and Emma Sayers with Bill Manhire reading.

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James Gardner  

Throat Clearing

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2000
for E flat clarinet, A clarinet and bass clarinet

Peter Willis  

Timepiece

Duration: 07' 50" Year: 2006
for clarinet quartet

  • Instrumentation
    for three b flat clarinets, and one b flat bass clarinet
  • Programme Note

    In the spirit of recycling, Timepiece uses music of the past in new ways. The three-note motif that pervades the work is a transcription of a bellbird song (previously used in my piece Bush Telegraph). I also quote from Mahler, The Beatles, and a famous clock tune.

    Timepiece is a clarinet quartet, composed for The Committee’s ‘Clock Works’ concert in Auckland University’s Clocktower. In a minimalistic style, it includes hocketing, spatial effects, birdsong, and musical quotation.

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Dylan Lardelli  

To My Winter

 Year: 2002
for solo oboe

John Elmsly  

Topintale

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1981
for 3 flutes, 2 oboes and 3 clarinets

Christopher Blake  

Towards Peace

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1978
for solo clarinet

John Rimmer  

Transcendental Fragments

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for wind trio

Michael Norris  

Tre Canzoni Imperfette

 Year: 2011
for solo flute

Philip Brownlee  

Trio for clarinets

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1992
for two clarinets in B flat and bass clarinet

Lyell Cresswell  

Triptych

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1993
for clarinet (B flat and E flat) and piano