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Craig Utting  

Adrift

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1999
for four cellos

Bill Barclay  

Circular Concerto

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
for string quartet

John Rimmer  

Composition 10

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1977
double bass and electronic sounds

John Rimmer  

Composition 8

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1974
for violin and electronic sounds

David Farquhar  

Dance Suite from "Ring Round the Moon"

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1953, r. 1992
for violin and piano

John Elmsly  

Dialogue III

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1989
for cello and piano

John Elmsly  

Drift

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1994
for viola and tape

  • Programme Note

    The electronic part for this work was prepared in the computer music studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, using real-time granular synthesis to process samples produced by the viola. A small resource of bowed and plucked sounds has been treated in this way to produce a large-scale mosaic of sounds to background the solo viola part, which explores playing techniques involving small changes, drifts, in pitch. For instance the opening is played with the fingers in closer than normal position to produce rhythmic patterns on very small intervals, a technique which recurs as a sort of technical motto throughout, and later material makes considerable use of much larger slides to produce a very fluid melody in the upper reaches of the instrument.

    The first performance was given by violist David Nalden in the
    ExtravaCANZa festival at Victoria University of Wellington in November 1994. David Nalden describes ‘Drift’ as ‘a vast soundscape of seemingly infinite varieties of colour, pitch and rhythm which bore as much resemblance to the sequence of sounds in my initial recording as a luxuriant garden to a handful of seeds which had given it its existence.’

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Jonathan Besser  

Duo for Violin and Piano

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1989
for violin and piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Duos

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1954
for two violins

Bruce Crossman  

Fierce Tranquillity

Duration: 15' 00"
for string trio