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Anthony Ritchie

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra

Instrumentation
2(1pc)222; 2200; timp (4),2perc(bs-dr,s-dr, tamtam, xylo, glock, sus cym); strs
Programme Note

‘Beginnings’ was commissioned by Auckland Philharmonia. It was inspired by the birth of Ritchie’s son Tristan. It depicts the slowly mounting tension of the labour, through to the birth itself. There is a gradual growth in the music from small, delicate gestures into wild and pulsating ones towards the end. The child is represented by a ‘little Tristan waltz’ which eventually gets caught up in the musical frenzy. The waltz sequence imposes order on the music, which tends to be fragmentary and changeable. There are some echoes of Bartok and Debussy in this early work, and it presents a good challenge for a professional orchestra.
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- Ritchie A.: Beginnings ; Facsimile
  
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Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1987
for wind octet

Instrumentation
2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling soprano saxophone), 2 horns and 2 bassoons
Availability
- Hamilton: Kaleidoscope; facsimile
  
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Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1987

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1987
for solo flute

Programme Note

Returning to the medium of solo flute, this piece was written during 1986 for Elizabeth Hirst who was at that time a sixth form student of the composer at Epsom Girls Grammar School. The piece acts as a kind of summary of the series and angain features the overblowing/tremolo technique extensively. This piece was subsequently absorbed into Passacaglia – a work for flute and strings written for the same soloist.
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- Hamilton: Slides 3, 5, 6 and 8; facsimile
  
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