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Craig Utting  

Five Campbell Songs

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1990
for voice, piano and viola

Dorothy Buchanan  

Fragments and Letters

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1992
a song cycle for voice, clarinet and cello

Gillian Whitehead  

Haiku

 Year: 1995
for soprano voice, viola and piano

  • Programme Note

    Haiku is a setting of 21 haiku written by Alan Wells, published in The New Zealand Haiku Anthology, edited by Cyril Childs (Wellington: The New Zealand Poetry Society Inc., 1993), and used with the kind permission of the poet.

    Haiku, was originally written for instrumental ensemble to celebrate Douglas Lilburn’s eightieth birthday, was rearranged and given its first performance by the Dunedin-based Lyric Trio (Ana Good, Rebecca Maurice, Joyce Whitehead). The haiku are concisely set; they draw on imagery both local and universal.

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David Griffiths  

Six Watercolours

 Year: 1994
six songs for voice, clarinet in B flat, violoncello and piano

  • Programme Note

    These beautiful poems of Charles Brasch were set to music in 1994.

    Commissioned by John Rimmer for the Karheinz company, with assistance from Creative New Zealand, they depict some of the most pristine landscapes of coastal New Zealand. With the exception of the beach settlement at Oaro, which is in the Kaikora region, the texts describe the coastal areas of the northern tip of the South Island. Onekaka (which in Maori means burning sands) is in Golden Bay. Tarakohe and Totaranui are both beaches in the stunning Abel Tasman National Park.

    The poetry was originally set for baritone, clarinet in B flat, violoncello and piano. In this version the clarinet is replaced by violin with some minor transpositions. The settings illustrate the words, capturing with musical gesture both the ancient resonance of these once unpeopled places and the dissolution of human presence over time.

    David Griffiths
    Notes taken from Ahi – The Ogen Trio, Atoll Records ACD108

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William (Bill) Direen  

That Night Many Things

Duration: 03' 05" Year: 1996
a song for voice, bass and drums