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Leonie Holmes  

The Fourth Station

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2008
for solo cello

Gillian Whitehead  

The Journey of Matuku Moana

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1992
for solo cello

Jack East  

The Lullaby

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for string quartet and tape

Neville Hall  

The shadow eddying fluid

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2007
for two cellos

Simon Eastwood  

The Spindle of Necessity

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2005
for string quartet

Gillian Whitehead  

the wind was in their wings

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1990
for string quartet

Ronald Tremain  

Theme and Variations

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1952
for two violins

Helen Bowater  

This Desperate Edge of Now

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2007, r. 2012
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    The string quartet is inspired by a poem by Mervyn Peake:

    ’Is there no Love can Link us?’

    Is there no thread to bind us- I and he

    Who is dying now, this instant as I write

    And may be cold before this line’s complete?

    And is there no power to link us- I and she

    Across whose body the loud roof is falling?

    Or the child, whose blackening skin

    Blossoms with hideous roses in the smoke?

    Is there no love can link us- I and they?

    Only this hectic moment? This fierce instant

    Striking now

    Its universal, its uneven blow?

    There is no other link. Only this sliding

    Second we share: this desperate edge of now.

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John Cousins  

Three Little Duets

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1973
for violin and viola

Dorothy Buchanan  

Three New Zealand Perspectives

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
for solo cello