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Anthony Ritchie  

Haere Mai Ra

 Year: 1988
for SSA choir, flute, cello and piano

Natalie Hunt  

Hawk

 Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

Philip Norman  

Hunger Songs

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989
for unaccompanied SSA choir

Natalie Hunt  

Kaka

 Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

Natalie Hunt  

Kawau

 Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

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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Helen Fisher  

Te Whakaaro Pai Ki Nga Tangata

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1994
Maori Christmas carol for SAA girl's choir with conga and bongos

Yvette Audain  

Three Auckland Nocturnes

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2007
for plectrum orchestra with optional flute and accordion

  • Instrumentation
    mandolin 1, mandolin 2, mandola, mandocello/liuto, mandobass/double bass, optional flute and accordion
  • Programme Note

    This piece is the result of a commission from Bryan Holden and the Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra. They wanted a work that could be premiered at an Auckland venue in October 2007, and which could then go on to a performance at an Australasian forum for players of mandolins and related instruments in 2008.

    I was advised of the fact that for the premiere performance, a flautist and more than one accordion player would be available. However, at time of writing there looks to be no flautist, and only one accordion player, available for the Australian performance. Hence my decision to make the flute and accordion parts ‘optional’, with the piece able to be adequately presented using only the core ‘plectrum orchestra’ instrumentation as well. Needless to say though, it is ideal that the flute and accordion parts ARE present, as they add to the piece rather considerably, even though I couldn’t completely indulge in the creation of specifically-idiomatic solos for them!

    Movement 1: in a cellar below street level
    This initial inspiration for this movement came from the diverse range of musical activity presented at Auckland city performance venue The Wine Cellar. In this particular movement, listen to a tale told in music, of a hypothetical Medieval minstrel who would actually rather be a blues musician.
    Movement 2: look’d @ stars
    When international visitors come to Auckland, they are often blown away by the fact that even in the middle of the city, one can still see the stars in the night sky.
    “look’d” = ancient; “@” = modern; “stars” = timeless.
    Movement 3: SPARK!
    Inspired by a gig I participated in at the beginning of November, the month which Guy Fawkes’ Night (a celebration marked by bonfires and fireworks) occurs – and there were indeed fireworks at this central Auckland gig that night.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Tutira Mai

 Year: 1987, r. 2000
for SA with flute, cello and piano