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John Young  

... and the Sky was tense with Blending

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1985, r. 1987
for orchestra

Anthony Ritchie  

Beginnings

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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Jack East  

Caravan

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1982
for chamber ensemble

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Commemoration

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1988
for solo cello

Robert Burch  

Concertino

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
for solo horn, piano and string orchestra

Ross Harris  

Contours

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
for horn and piano

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Cross-Hatchings

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1985
for flute, clarinet, horn, vibraphone, violin, cello and piano

Philip Dadson  

Drum/Sing

Duration: 26' 00" Year: 1984
group composition tuned percussion, voices and drones , 'From Scratch'

Jonathan Besser  

Duo for Violin and Piano

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1989
for violin and piano

John Elmsly  

Echoes and Chorus

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1981
for clarinet and tape