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Jonathan Crehan  

After the Crank Rush

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2008
for string quartet

Jeroen Speak  

Arabesques

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
for violin and piano

Gillian Whitehead  

Bright Silence

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
for solo violin

David Farquhar  

Chaconne

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello

Ross Harris  

Chaconne for Solo Viola

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2003

Chris Watson  

Distal

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2001
for string quartet (with viola as soloist)

  • Instrumentation
    Violist stands in the middle and in front of the ensemble and is ringed by the other players (seated)
  • Programme Note

    Written for one of the New Zealand String Quartet’s immensely valuable composer workshops at Victoria University’s School of Music, distal was my first attempt at the use of aleatoric elements in composition. The violist moves to the front of the performance space, ringed by the other quartet members and plays a traditionally-scored virtuosic solo from start to finish, while the trio members play overlapping, looping fragments, where individual choices can be made with regard to register, dynamic and speed of execution according to closely defined parameters. At various moments the soloist and trio converge, providing fleeting glimpses of rhythmic coherence, before withdrawing back to strange and unpredictable realms.

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Samuel Holloway  

Domestic Architecture

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2008
for string quartet

David Farquhar  

earth, air, water...

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2004
for solo violin

Dylan Lardelli  

Eidolon

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello

Ross Carey  

Four Pieces

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2001
for violin and piano

  • Programme Note

    Four Pieces in progressively faster tempi, marked by the 4×108 quarter note pulses in the piano part; over this the violin independently plays its part. In the third piece the violin part consists of the beginning of number 2 of Three Pieces (Autumn Leaves) for violin solo.

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