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John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

Jonathan Crehan  

Aftermath

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2004
a sonata for cello and piano

Gillian Whitehead  

Awa Herea (Braided Rivers)

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1993
a song cycle for soprano and piano

John Rimmer  

Beyond the saying

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 1990
electronic music

Martin Lodge  

Cantus Intus

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1980
intuitive music for piano or other solo instrument

Dorothy Buchanan  

Carnival of New Zealand Creatures

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1999
for narrator, singer, flute, clarinet, cello, guitar, percussion

Chris Cree Brown  

Celestial Bodies

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2004, r. 2005
for orchestra, electro-acoustic sounds and images

John Elmsly  

Cello Symphony

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1986
for solo cello and orchestra

Robert Burch  

Concertino

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
for solo horn, piano and string orchestra

Michael Vinten  

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2006
for alto saxophone and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    212(both dbl bass cl.)2; 2210; timp., celeste, harp; solo alto saxophone; strings
  • Programme Note

    The Concerto was written in January 2006 as fulfilment of a long standing promise to write a piece for saxophonist Simon Brew. What began, in concept, as a modest “concertino” grew into a five movement “grand” concerto of nearly 30 minutes, which makes it, according to Simon, one of the longer concertos in the Alto Saxophone repertoire; I’m still not quite sure how it happened, it just kept on growing.

    The Concerto was commissioned by the Wellington Youth Sinfonietta, is dedicated to Simon, and was premiered in May 2006. The first two movements, including some revisions, were later presented at the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings on 6 November 2006.

    The first movement is an accompanied cadenza for the saxophone which outlines the major thematic material for the concerto. This movement reoccurs, in modified form, as the central episode of the last movement. The second movement is in traditional concerto sonata form. The Concerto unashamedly follows classical structures throughout. Avant-garde it ain’t!

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