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Bryony Jagger  

A New Day Dawns

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
for orchestra

David Farquhar  

Auras

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1994
for solo piano with orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1111;4230; timp, perc, strings
  • Programme Note

    Imagine the harmonics associated with each musical sound as its “aura”. This piece brings these auras into fuller consciousness: at the start the orchestra’s staccato chord is immediately decorated by the solo piano’s flourish on its harmonic series. These auras permeate the work. The piece is in a single movement – its various sections related rhythmically. It was first performed by Barbara King and the Victoria University Orchestra under Peter Walls in August 1995.

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Martin Lodge  

Cassation

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1991
for chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 2100; strings
  • Programme Note

    The origin of the term ‘cassation’ is clouded with speculation, but around the time of Haydn and Mozart it was used more or less interchangeably with ‘serenade’ and ‘divertimento’. Generally such pieces were for orchestra, and written in an entertaining, less serious vein. The present work for chamber orchestra also is of a lighter character. It has an outdoor flavour, and features uncomplicated, open harmonies, jaunty rhythms and clear melodies.


    The first movement has an energetic, raucous character rising out of the resonant sounds of the open strings of violins and violas. Sections of uneven rhythm alternate with simpler passages, as if one were strolling briskly through streets in which various sorts of different activity were going on. The ‘Nocturne’ is pensive and nostalgic. Expressive lines for solo horn and cello rise out of a gentle, rather static atmosphere. The third movement is a short and capricious treatment of the opening oboe theme from Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck. This scrap of tune – playful but loaded – is introduced upside down here, and is restored to its original shape at the end after some free-wheeling excursions.


    Cassation was Martin Lodge’s first orchestral work. It was commissioned by the Wellington Chamber Orchestra, which gave the premiere in 1990.

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Craig Utting  

Collages

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1992
for twelve violas

Kenneth Young  

Dance

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1997
for orchestra

Lyell Cresswell  

Dancing on a Volcano

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1996
for orchestra

Philip Norman  

Friendship Haiku

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1992
for orchestra

Edwin Carr  

Gaudeamus Overture

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1990
for orchestra

Christopher Marshall  

Hikurangi Sunrise

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
for orchestra

Martin Lodge  

Hinterland

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1997
for orchestra