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Philip Brownlee  

Te Hau o Tawhirimatea

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2004
for flute and taonga puoro

  • Instrumentation
    Flutes: piccolo/alto flute; Taonga puoro: putorino, koauau ponga ihu, pumotomoto
  • Programme Note

    Te Hau o Tawhirimatea is dedicated to Richard Nunns and Bridget Douglas. The music aims to create a space in which the musicians, and the voices of their instruments, may speak together. The musical space is flexible, encouraging spontaneous dialogue between the various instrumental voices. Tawhirimatea, the wind god, child of Earth and Sky, represents powerful elemental forces, but he is also capable of gentle playfulness. Te hau refers also to human breath, the force which animates the wind instruments. From the mingling of breath, sweet voices are brought into being.

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Martin Lodge  

Toru

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2003
for taonga puoro, cello, and clarinet

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  • Programme Note

    Toru means ‘three’ in Maori, here referring to the trio of players.
    The written score of Toru lays out the structure, dramatic shape and instrumentation of the music, but the musical details is left to the creativity of the performers, so the musical voyage complete each time Toru is performed will be unique. An aim in Toru has been to draw the cello and clarinet into the sound world of the taonga puoro in the course of the performance.

    Notes taken from Toru, Atoll CD (ACD 143)

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