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John Rimmer  

At the Base of the Whirlpool

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
for bass oboe and bass clarinet

John Rimmer  

At the Base of The Whirlpool

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
for 2 bass clarinets

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight IV

 Year: 2008
for piccolo/flute and bassoon

  • Programme Note

    Chaos of Delight IV continues my series of works inspired by NZ birdsong (Chaos of Delight I for bass clarinet, Chaos of Delight II for soprano, Chaos of Delight III for women’s voices) and in this case is a short, theatrical duo written especially for the talents of my colleagues Luca Manghi and Ben Hoadley. Some more recognizable birdcalls are: the thrush calls played by piccolo; the Paradise Duck in the bassoon; the Kokako played by both in unison and the Little Blue Penguin in the fluttertongued basson.

    The work was premiered by the duo on October 22nd, 2008 in Auckland.

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Stephan Schulz  

Clarinet Duos Talk

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1990
five pieces for two clarinets

Bryan James  

Composition XVI

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1984
two pieces for 2 flutes

Hugh Dixon  

Duo

Duration: 02' 00"
for clarinet and bassoon

David Farquhar  

Five Canons for Two Clarinets

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1951

Gillian Whitehead  

Hineraukatauri

 Year: 1999
duo for piccolo/flute/alto flute, and Maori flutes

  • Instrumentation
    piccolo, C flute, alto flute. Taonga puoro: tumu tumu, karanga manu, putorino toroa, putorino maine, putorino nui, purerehua, pakunu. Taonga puoro parts mostly improvised.
  • Programme Note

    In the tradition of the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, Hine Raukatauri is the goddess of music and dance. She is embodied in the form of the female case-moth, who hangs in the bushes and sings in a pure, high voice to attract the male moths to her. Her hair is found as a fern, the hanging spleenwort, and her voice is heard in the sound of the putorino, an instrument known only in Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand). The putorino is an instrument that can be played in various ways – as a flute, as a trumpet and as a means of enhancing or altering the human voice.

    Hineraukatauri is written for two performers, one playing conventional flutes (piccolo, C and alto flutes), and the other for taonga puoro (instruments). The score features three different putorino, which, like all taonga puoro, (and also the songs and chants) have a small pitch range, rarely exceeding a fourth, which varies from instrument to instrument. Three putorino are used in this piece – one made of albatross bone and two of wood, and both the flute and trumpet voices are used. Other instruments used are a karanga manu (bird-caller), a purerehua (swung bull-roarer) and tumutumu (tapped instruments.)

    The flute player’s part is notated, but the music for the taonga puoro is improvised; there are areas when the flute player is encouraged to improvise with the taonga.

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Neville Hall  

in the folds of silence 1

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1996
for two flutes

Ben Hoadley (Composer)  

Manaia

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2008
two flutes

  • Instrumentation
    for two flutes with the first flute doubling piccolo
  • Programme Note

    Manaia (I), written in January 2008 for Tjasa Dykes and Luca Manghi, is the first of a series of works for wind instruments inspired by paintings of Auckland artist Natalie Couch. Manaia are supernatural beings, spiritual guides which in this piece have taken on the form of moths. The music suggests the fluttering, resting and swarming movements of moths and other flying insects. The title also alludes to a giant and spiritually significant puriri tree near Manaia on the Coromandel Peninsula.

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