Sub Navigation

Search Music:

Search for music by typing a word or phrase in the box below or by selecting one or more categories from the list on the side.

Or search for products by selecting an option below, and typing a word or phrase in the box above

  • Scores
  • CDs and DVDs
  • Downloads
  • Education Resources

Helen Caskie  

A Cycle of Recollections

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1997
for soprano, clarinet and piano

Bryony Jagger  

A New Day Dawns

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
for orchestra

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

a pink-lit phase

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1997
for flute, viola and harp

Philip Norman  

A Short Suite

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
for saxophone quartet

Christopher Blake  

Angel at Ahipara

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1999
for string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    In the isolated settlement of Ahipara in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand a tiny white church sits on a hillock looking out to a range of low brooding hills. In the cemetery below, an angel stands on a pedestal at the head of a grave. One day in 1992 renowned New Zealand photographer Robin Morrison came to the church and captured the essence of the angel’s vigil in a memorable and famous image.

    In late 1997 the composer Chris Blake travelled to Ahipara and stook in the same place and experiences the same image. The outcome was a short work for string orchestra which captures the hope and desolation of the angel and the memory of the soul over which she stands guard. The work was created for conductor Andrew Sewell and is based, at his suggestion, on a passage from an earlier work We All Fall Down for obliggato cello and orchestra.

    This work is one of a series of four, making up The Northland Panels. They were written and premiered as separate works.

  • Availability

David Farquhar  

Auras

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1994
for solo piano with orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1111;4230; timp, perc, strings
  • Programme Note

    Imagine the harmonics associated with each musical sound as its “aura”. This piece brings these auras into fuller consciousness: at the start the orchestra’s staccato chord is immediately decorated by the solo piano’s flourish on its harmonic series. These auras permeate the work. The piece is in a single movement – its various sections related rhythmically. It was first performed by Barbara King and the Victoria University Orchestra under Peter Walls in August 1995.

  • Availability

Maria Grenfell  

Blue Green Red Black

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
for percussion ensemble of four players

Philip Norman  

Bridgewater Quartet

Duration: 14' 30" Year: 1994
for flute, clarinet, violin and piano

Lyell Cresswell  

Canzone

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1992
for trombone and organ

Michael Norris  

Chrysalis

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
for flute and tape