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Pieta Hextall  

Bridge of Remembrance

Duration: 05' 35" Year: 2006
for full orchestra

Geoffrey Hinds  

Colyton Overture

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1987
for youth orchestra

  • Programme Note

    This work was written before and after a visit to Colyton, where a cousin of the composer has a farm, and whose daughter was playing ’cello in the orchestra at the time. He intended the work to reflect the rural open spaces that provide welcome relief for a city-dweller.

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David Hamilton  

Concertino For Percussion and Chamber Orchestra

Duration: 07' 55" Year: 2009
for percussion and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    for solo percussion: triangle (medium size), cow bell, three suspended cymbals (small, medium and large), four temple blocks, a pair of bongos, four roto-toms and xylophone (or marimba); 3120; tenor sax; 0221(opt.); strings
  • Programme Note

    This short work was written for the orchestra of Auckland Grammar School and a talented senior student percussionist. It is in a straight-forward tonal style, including a cadenza for the soloist.

    The work consists of three main ideas. Follow a short introduction the xylophone presents the main melodic material of the first idea. The 2nd main idea is chromatic chord that builds through the orchestra several times. Against this the percussion has more angular melodic material and more syncopated rhythmic ideas. The second section builds to a climax which immediately gives way to the 3rd section which is fugal. The melody from the 1st section re-appears, not as the fugue subject, but rather as the counter-subject of the fugue. This section mainly features the woodwind section of the orchestra interacting with the percussionist. The fugue winds down into a short cadenza for the soloist, and then material from the opening two sections is recapitulated in abbreviated form. The music builds to a final climax.

    The percussion part avoids exotic or unusual instruments, favouring basic equipment found in most school music departments with an active instrumental programme. The only tuned percussion instrument is a xylophone, with the remainder being a mix of wood, skin and metal instruments.

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David Hamilton  

Concerto Grosso No.2

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2004
for two violins, cello and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    The title of this work may seem unexpected as there is no ‘Concert Grosso No. 1’ in my list of works! However I’ve always considered my 1985 work for strings and percussion ‘Well Done, Mister Bach’ to be a concerto grosso. That work features the leaders of all five string parts as a ‘concertante’ group. In a more traditional Baroque manner, this work features just the leaders of the first and second violin and cello sections as the soloists. My intention with the work was to write something in the manner of a Baroque concerto grosso, drawing inspiration from typical styles of the period. Mixed in are my own musical and compositional preferences, so that in the end the piece might be described as ‘Baroque meets minimalism’. I finally gave into the temptation to give the three movements titles. The title, ‘Prelude’, of the first movement is a little ironic as it is longer than the remaining two movements combined. The second movement, ‘Air on a Shoestring’ suggests a rather brief, perhaps truncated air, in this case, a piece which fails to return to its home key. The final movement is in the manner of a Baroque fugue, I knew that university paper would finally come in useful one day!. ‘Concert Grosso No. 2’ was commissioned by the Music Department of St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, and follows a commission from them the previous year for ‘Whisper to me’ (for choir, strings and percussion).

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Ray Twomey  

Diversion (Opus 1)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1963
for string orchestra and oboe solo

Ray Twomey  

Diversion (Opus 1a)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1963
for string orchestra and clarinet solo

Thomas Goss  

Ecstasy of Flight

Duration: 09' 50" Year: 2002
tone poem for two violins and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    Ecstasy of Flight captures a moment in the life of a child who longed for a companion in her isolated life in the precise middle of nowhere. She was visited by a powerful dream, of wings, the curling of the wind in the cloud-tops, the perfect peace of the blue land of the sun, and the shape of the world as one great, majestic song. That was the moment in her life from which she could look back later as an adult composer and say that it all began.

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Hannah Gilmour  

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2008
for full orchestra

David Hamilton  

Excursion for Orchestra

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1993, r. 1997
for chamber orchestra

Robbie Ellis  

Fanfare 10

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2010
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3(picc).2.3(Eb,Bb,bass).2; 4.3.3.1; T+3; strings
  • Programme Note

    This is a good old-fashioned fanfare – an introductory piece to kick-start a concert. It’s based around what I believe to be engaging tunes, inspiring brass and a healthy dose of celebratory bells, filtered through my own rhythmic and harmonic sensibilities.

    Fanfare 10 was workshopped by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conductor Luke Dollman as a finalist in the 2010 NZSO/Todd Corporation Young Composers Competition.

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