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Jonathan Crehan  

After the Crank Rush

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

Jenny McLeod  

Airs for the Winged Isle

 Year: 2009
for string quartet

Ross Harris  

And death shall have no dominion

 Year: 2007
for string quartet

Gao Ping  

Bright Light and Cloud Shadows

 Year: 2006
for string quartet

David Sanders  

Clandestine Marriage

 Year: 2004
variations for string quartet

Pieta Hextall  

Cyclic Currents

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2006
for string quartet

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

Ross Carey  

Elegy

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2005
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    This brief elegy was written a few months after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, in which so many lost their lives. Over the gently rocking figures of the viola and cello are heard the more impassioned lines of the violins; these seem to chase after one another before the piece comes to a quiet close. Composed for the Auckland Philharmonia Ensemble Philharmonia concerts, where it received its first performance in November 2006.

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Keith Statham  

Elena's Waltz

Duration: 03' 04" Year: 2006
for string quartet