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Philip Brownlee  

As if to catch the fleeting tail of time

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2009
for guitar and ensemble

Yvette Audain  

Compendium Improvisation

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2006
improvisation for solo clarinet

Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2007
for oboe and string orchestra

Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra

Duration: 16' 18" Year: 2007
for viola and string orchestra

John Rimmer   Richard Nunns  

Cosmic Winds

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2004
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro) and tape

Gillian Whitehead  

Hinetekakara

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2004
for voice, taonga puoro, and bassoon

  • Instrumentation
    Voice used for waiata; Taonga puoro includes: Putatara, Putorino Matai, Pumotomoto, Pupuharakeke, Pu Kaea, and Nguru Rakau Maire
  • Programme Note

    Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shores of Lake Rotorua with Ihenga, her husband or father, an eponymous ancestor of the Te Arawa people, when the land was still being settled after the arrival of the Te Arawa canoe from central Polynesia. The four cadenzas, for bassoon, alto flute, flute, cello and bassoon, and bassoon link improvised sections, in which all the instruments participate. The singer initially invokes, accompanied by putatara (conch shell trumpet), the spirit of Hinetekakara, then addresses rituals following the death of her future father-in-law (with putorino), and then the birth of her son (with pumotomoto, an instrument used to assist at child-birth). A voiceless improvisation on pupu harakeke (flax snail), an instrument presaging danger, is followed by Ihenga’s anguished lament as he finds the murdered body of Hinetekakara by the lake, by the place named for her, Ohinemutu, meaning the end of the woman. Finally, she is farewelled as her spirit returns to the afterworld.

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Philip Norman  

Inception to Infinity

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2001
for solo guitar and string orchestra

Juliet Palmer  

Mother Hubbard

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2001
for chamber ensemble and CD

Philip Dadson  

Obliquely

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2004
improvisation for nundrum

John Psathas  

Omnifenix

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2000
for tenor saxophone, drumkit and orchestra