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Rosemary Russell  

A Wellington Christmas or Christmas Eve Reflections

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2000
for three part treble choir with SATB choir and finger cymbals

  • Programme Note

    In the deepness of the night before Christmas, children dream of exciting and wondrous things: so do adults, but they are also fraught with arrangements and planning for the big day. a call for simplicity and remembering the loving and gifting nature of Christmas. This piece is performed “in the round” i.e. the adult choir encircles the audience and the children stand up the central aisle. The adult choir gradually moves around the audience and sings at times in smaller groupings. The audience does not know where the sound will come from next. The children need to be able to hold 3 simple parts. Finger cymbals are used to indicate stars and nocturnal animals create an interesting opening. It is depicts a New Zealand Christmas experience.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Caroline Bay Suite

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1999
four pieces for piano

  • Programme Note

    This suite of four short pieces is aimed at the younger pianist, of Grade 3 – 4 level. Sunrise, children playing, a runner and a carnival have become the subjects for imaginative musical interpretation.

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Dorothy Ker  

Close-up of a Daisy

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1992, r. 1994
six pieces for SSAA a cappella choir

Jenny McLeod  

Henna

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2008
for SAA (T) choir and piano with optional bass part

Jenny McLeod  

Henna

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2008
for SATB choir and piano

Helen Bowater  

Hihi

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2007
for harp

Dorothy Buchanan  

More Witchy Poo Songs

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1980
for voice(s) and piano

Anthony Ritchie  

Rain

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2008
for baritone and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    (picc)21(cor)22; 4; perc; cl; string and baritone
  • Programme Note

    Rain is an iconic poem by Hone Tuwhare, describing beautifully a feature of the weather but also subtly ruminating on death. The setting is quiet and lyrical, with an optional part for a rainmaker (to be played by the singer). This setting for baritone and piano was written for Matt Landreth, and recorded by him. The recording and score were auctioned to raise funds for the Otago Hospice appeal in May 2008. The song was subsequently scored for orchestra and recorded by Matt Landreth and the Auckland Philharmonia.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Rain

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2008
for baritone and piano

  • Programme Note

    Rain is an iconic poem by Hone Tuwhare, describing beautifully a feature of the weather but also subtly ruminating on death. The setting is quiet and lyrical, with an optional part for a rainmaker (to be played by the singer). This setting for baritone and piano was written for Matt Landreth, and recorded by him. The recording and score were auctioned to raise funds for the Otago Hospice appeal in May 2008. The song was subsequently scored for orchestra and recorded by Matt Landreth and the Auckland Philharmonia.

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Alex Taylor  

silk / gravel

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2011
for string orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    for string Orchestra, ideally at least 6.6.4.4.2 but can work with fewer: minimum would be 4.4.3.3.1
  • Programme Note

    This work is an exploration of the possibilities of the string orchestra as a body of sound, the orchestra at times acting like one giant super-instrument composed of intricately superimposed layers. Old textures are continually swallowed up, recycled and transformed, playing out a finely balanced tension between static and active, supple and brittle, strong and fragile. From a fluid, tangled haze, individual voices periodically emerge to assert some kind of nostalgic lyricism, but each time they are ultimately subsumed, swallowed up in an eerie, ambivalent mass of sound. Stylistically the music is varied and eclectic, weaving together the intricate, spidery lines of Ligeti, the delicate chordal sonorities of Messiaen, the caustic anger of Shostakovich and even the brooding menace of Anthony Watson.

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