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Bryony Jagger  

A Nursery of Pain

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for solo treble recorder (with optional spoken voice )

Denis Smalley  

Clarinet Threads

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1985
for amplified clarinet and tape

Bryan James  

Composition XVI

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1984
two pieces for 2 flutes

John Rimmer  

Cosmic Dances

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1986
for recorder ensemble (minimum of six players)

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Countercurrents

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989
for tenor saxophone

Matthew Davidson  

Deux Plaisenteries

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1993
for E flat alto saxophone and piano

  • Programme Note

    ‘Roll Jordan Roll’ (movement one) is a series of genre variations on the African-American spiritual of the same name. The melody was transcribed from a 78rpm recording of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and in turn, this appeared on the 1962 Folkways LP entitled An Introduction to Gospel Song. In my version, the listener will hear my own harmonization followed sequentially by pastiches of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lennie Tristano, Anton Webern, and Thelonious Monk, in turn.

    ‘Dangdut’ (movement two) is a direct transcription of an Indonesian street musician called Mas Sujud. He and the tune appeared on a 1982 Kiwi-Pacific Records Ltd./Hibiscus Records LP called Music for Sale (Indonesian street music recorded by Jack Body). In the original, the singer accompanies himself on a small drum, and in my version, the piano part was generated solely by the notes in the melody and rhythms played by the drum. The sax part plays the melody.

    This piece was recorded in 1991 by Taimur Sullivan (sax) and Allissa Eells (piano) with funding from the American (then Minnesota) Composers Forum.

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John Elmsly  

Dialogue 1

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1988
for flute/alto flute and piano

  • Programme Note

    This specially commissioned work was first performed at the 1988 International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. The musical material is derived fromt he piano’s opening bar, and the resulting style combines the appealing simplicity of triadic harmonies with mathematical processes. There are three clear sections marked by the changes from flute to alto flute and back: outer sections exploiting the clarity and brilliance of the usual C flute, and a rich cantabile middle section for the larger (so deeper) alto flute where the piano provides a gentle accompaniment built on a a slowly contracting ostinato-like figure.

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John Elmsly  

Dialogue II

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for clarinet and piano

Martin Lodge  

Divisions for Wind Quintet

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1986
for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Helen Caskie  

Fantasia for Flute and Piano

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1984