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Suite of pieces with poems that can be read between movements or omitted.

• Jagger: A Nursery of Pain; facsimile 

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Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Speirs: Cantico del sole; facsimile 

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• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Cantico del Sole 

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• Elmsly: Dialogue III; facsimile 

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• Besser: Duo for violin and piano; facsimile 

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• Jonathan Besser: Duo for Violin and Piano; audio 

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• Jonathan Besser: Duo for Violin and Piano 

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• Powell: Father's Telescope; electroacoustic part 

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• Powell: Father's Telescope; computer-set 

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• Kit Powell: Father's Telescope; audio 

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• Harlow - Powell: Radio NZ Archive Recordings 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdelene and the Birds; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdalene and the Birds; computer-set  Year: 1993 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdalene and the Birds 

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• Bellingham, Dennis, Rawson: NZ vocal music  Year: 2006 

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In this work, inspired by Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast – ‘home’ during the composer’s six-week residency at Victoria University in 1989 – the relationship between music and environment is particularly strong. The cello’s low repeated D, which opens the piece, is the fundamental pitch heard in the sea and the restless semi-quavers evoke the continuous movement of waves crashing on the Paekakariki shore. Whitehead’s fascination with medieval philosophy and music, incorporating concepts of natural cycles, is reflected both in the title and in the compositional process, where magic squares were used to generate the background structure.
(Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

“This is a rich evocative piece that is never merely picturesque, as the title might suggest. It has a lyrical complexity reminiscent of Tippett… (it) achieves moments of great beauty.” (Tim Bridgewater, The Dominion).

“The highlight for me was the premiere of Gillian Whitehead’s Moon Tides, and Shoreline. … Perhaps there are marine associations to be heard in the score, but, more importantly, one appreciates the work’s cool and eminently logical form. The various musical motifs are inventive in themselves and intriguingly handled.” (William Dart, Music in New Zealand)

• Whitehead: Moon, Tides and Shoreline; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Moon, Tides and Shoreline; computer-set 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Various Works 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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• Farquhar: String Quartet; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: String Quartet; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: String Quartet; facsimile 

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• Music by David Farquhar  Year: 1993 

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In this three movement work for large string orchestra, the first movement is inspired by the image of a Javanese dancer accompanied by gamelan music and is reflected in the fast hocketing textures over long low bass notes analogous to the gamelan gongs. The central Adagio (for strings) is, quite unlike Barber’s famous movement, quite deliberately without climax reflecting the constantly oppressive tropical heat. The last movement is of an intense nature such as found in the pressure of population.

• Keay: Symphony for Strings; computer-set 

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• Keay: Symphony for Strings; facsimile 

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• Symphony for Strings  Year: 1992 

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• Woolston Brass: Millennium  Year: 1998 

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