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Philip Norman  

A Short Suite

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

Lyell Cresswell  

Anake

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1998
for solo flute

  • Programme Note

    ‘Anake’ – Maori for alone – is a set of three pieces. The first contrasts fragmentary ideas with slower wide-ranging melodic lines. These ideas are extended into a shimmering virtuosic diversion in the second piece, and the third turns the slower music into a desolate lament. This third piece was written with a line from Federico Garcia Lorca’s lament for the bullfighter Ignacio Sanchez Mejias in mind: ‘Bones and flutes sound in his ears’.

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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

Ian Sinclair  

Caprice, Intermezzo and Dance for clarinet and piano

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1993
three movement work for clarinet in B flat and pianoforte

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight I

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1995
for bass clarinet

  • Programme Note

    The first in my Chaos of Delight series of pieces based on birdsong, Chaos of Delight I requires the bass clarinettiest to trill, click, screech, book and roll in a virtuosic display of avian sonorities, using the full range of the instrument, from the boom of the kakapo to the shriek of the the morepork and the bleat of the bush falcon. All these can be heard amongst sounds which exploit the unique characteristics of the bass clarinet, such as its uncannily high register, slap tonguing and multiphonics.

    The title is taken from a passage in A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Falla, Gibson and Turbott: “…there are still many quiet places far from the madding crowd, where the mind can become, in Darwin’s phrase, ‘a chaos of delight’ at the abundance and variety of birds which pass before the eye or perplex the ear.”

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1997, r. 2001
for solo bassoon

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was originally written as a twenty-1st birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997, r. 1999
for any member of the oboe family

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997
for any member of the clarinet family

Michael Norris  

Chrysalis

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