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• Tremain: Symphony; facsimile 

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The first movement of this symphony opens quietly with a number of ideas in which the melodic interval of a fifth has some prominence. A faster section follows and the development of these ideas leads to climaxes with patterns of diverse rhythms superimposed. After the final climax the movement subsides to a quiet ending.

The second movement has the character of a Scherzo. Lively rhythms alternating between 6/8 and 3/4 lead to a quieter sustained “trio” tune. The scherzo resumes and takes the music to a climax where these two ideas are presented together – the faster one (violins and trumpets) across the slower (horns and trombones). The music unwinds until we are left with a fragment of the slower theme, which becomes a link to the third movement.

The finale has the form of a free passacaglia. It grows out of the opening trumpet tune and its accompaniment – the trumpet tune becomes the passacaglia bass, while the stepwise bass takes over as melody. At the end of the movement a reference back to the melodic falling fifths of the first movement leads to the final chord – fading from brass to wind, and in the end, to strings alone.

(Programme note by Owen Jensen on the sleeve of the 1969 Kiwi/Pacfic LP recording by the NZSO under Juan Matteucci)

• Farquhar: Symphony No. 1; facsimile 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1968 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1969 

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• David Farquhar: Three Symphonies  Year: 2004 

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Douglas Lilburn’s Symphony No. 2 was given its first performance as a studio broadcast in December 1953 conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. The first public performance was given by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Hopkins in the Wellington Town Hall in June 1959.

• Lilburn: Symphony No. 2; computer-set 

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• Douglas Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 1968 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 2 and other works  Year: 1976 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 2 and other works  Year: 1976 

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• Lilburn: Three Symphonies  Year: 1993 

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• Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 2001 

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