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Robert Burch  

Capriccio for Four Saxophones

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1966
for saxophone quartet

John Rimmer  

Composition 2

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1968, r. 1969
for wind quintet and electronic sounds

David Farquhar  

Concerto for Wind Quintet

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1966
for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn

David Farquhar  

Five Canons for Two Clarinets

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1951

Edwin Carr  

Four Pieces

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1965
for oboe d'amore and piano

Robert Burch  

Little Suite

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 1964
for four clarinets

Peter Crowe  

Passacaglia

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1956
for flute and piano

Ken Wilson  

Quintet

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1963
for wind quintet

David Farquhar  

Serenade

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1951
for wind quartet

  • Instrumentation
    oboe, clarinet (2), bassoon
  • Programme Note

    The structure is modelled on Bartok’s String Quartet No. 6, with 3 quick movements, each proceeded by a slow introduction – the 3 treatments of the introduction become fuller each time. There are also Bartokian rhythmic influence: 5/8, 11/8, 7/4 movements and sections.

    I think (?) it had a student performance at Cambridge; I also entered it for the Soviets for the Performance of New Music (SPNM) who accepted it, but by then I was a student with Ben Frankel’s class at the Guildhall in London, and he advised me to withdraw it – on the grounds (as I remember) that I could do better! Perhaps I could, but looking back at it, I feel it has a youthful freshness, so I’ve put it into the SOUNZ library as being available for performance. No takers yet!

    I’ve also made arrangements of the Trio section of the 2nd movement as a separate piece, called Musette. The solo guitar version is published in Sue Court’s Guitar Aotearoa, and there is a piano version in a set of 8 pieces called Off-beat (1992 – unpublished), which shows that I still like this bit of the Serenade, at least!

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Douglas Lilburn  

Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1948