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Larry Pruden  

1218

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1977
an unsolemn overture for orchestra after Tchaikovsky - a tapestry of English tunes

Douglas Lilburn  

A Birthday Offering

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1956
for orchestra

Bryony Jagger  

A New Day Dawns

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
for orchestra

Lissa Meridan  

a quiet fury

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2008
for symphony orchestra and live electronics

  • Programme Note

    During 2007 I spent a lot of time making field recordings of background noise in Paris, and analysing the spectral and rhythmic content of those recordings. I found the more I listened to my recordings, the more musical material I found hidden in these background hisses and hums, chatterings and otherwise banal noises: rhythms, mysterious melodies, energies and harmonic tensions. While working on this commission for the NZSO, I decided to try to capture the intrinsic musical essences I could hear in my field recordings, and interpret those sounds in an orchestral context, with the juxtaposition of the original noise recordings finding musical relationships in the orchestral counterpart. The resulting piece is a conjuring of various energies, or furies, caught in the background noise of Paris, and finding their way into the back of my throat to be sung into a quiet fury.

    Lissa Meridan

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Anthony Ritchie  

Albatross in Flight

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
a short piece for orchestra

Chris Adams  

Antonyms of Trust

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2010
for actor and orchestra

John Rimmer  

At the Appointed Time

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1973
for orchestra

Gareth Farr  

Beowulf

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
for orchestra

David Farquhar  

Beyond ...

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2004, r. 2005
for orchestra

Dugal McKinnon  

Blue Kisses Green

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1999, r. 2000
for six-channel tape and orchestra