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Craig Utting  

A Celebration

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
for large orchestra

Lyell Cresswell  

A Modern Ecstasy

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
for baritone, mezzo soloists and orchestra

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  

A Short Overture

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1986
for chamber orchestra

David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Michael Vidulich  

Aotea Suite

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987
for string orchestra

John Ritchie  

Aquarius: Suite No. 2 for String Orchestra

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1982

Anthony Ritchie  

Autumn Concerto

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1985
for piano and orchestra

Anthony Ritchie  

Balkan Bagpipes

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1985
for amateur orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2(1pc)222; 4210;timp (3), 1-2perc (sd-dr,tri,xylo, sus cym, tamb), pf,hp; strs
  • Programme Note

    This is a lively 9-minute piece is written for a full-sized amateur orchestra. It evokes the music of East European bagpipes, which the composer experienced while studying in Budapest, in 1984.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Beginnings

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2(1pc)222; 2200; timp (4),2perc(bs-dr,s-dr, tamtam, xylo, glock, sus cym); strs
  • Programme Note

    ‘Beginnings’ was commissioned by Auckland Philharmonia. It was inspired by the birth of Ritchie’s son Tristan. It depicts the slowly mounting tension of the labour, through to the birth itself. There is a gradual growth in the music from small, delicate gestures into wild and pulsating ones towards the end. The child is represented by a ‘little Tristan waltz’ which eventually gets caught up in the musical frenzy. The waltz sequence imposes order on the music, which tends to be fragmentary and changeable. There are some echoes of Bartok and Debussy in this early work, and it presents a good challenge for a professional orchestra.

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