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Alexander Cowdell  

A Place of Quiet

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for solo tenor and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    flute/picc., 2 clar. (2nd dbls bass cl.); tpt; strings
  • Programme Note

    This composition is a setting of a poem by the Australian philosopher, poet and musician Melvyn Cann. The first part describes a spiritual journey through suffering to transcendence and peace. The second part describes a state of consciousness where both thought and time cease, and only feeling remains.

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Eric Biddington  

Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for flute and string orchestra

Denise Hulford  

Evolution

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1985
for narrator/tenor and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2220;2221;timp,2perc (xylo, bell tree, cymbals, gong, bass drum, triangle, tambourine, woodblocks, guiro, snare drum, vibraphone);strs.
  • Programme Note

    This work for narrator, tenor and symphony orchestra highlights the impact on nature of man’s questionable progress. This idea is taken directly from Hone Tuwhare’s poem The Sea! To The Mountains! To The River which is the text for the soloist. Evolution is one continuous movement interspersed with nine vocal sections.

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John Charles  

Iris

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1984
music for film

Lyell Cresswell  

O!

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1982
for orchestra

Edwin Carr  

Promenade

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1985
ballet suite for orchestra

Nigel Keay  

Symphony for Strings - Three Images of Java

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for string orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    Minimum strs: 8,6,5,4,3
  • Programme Note

    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.

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Edwin Carr  

Symphony No.1

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1981
for orchestra

Jenny McLeod  

Three Celebrations for Orchestra

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2009
for full orchestra

Christopher Blake  

Till Human Voices Wake Us

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1986
for tenor voice and orchestra