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Gillian Whitehead  

Antiphons

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1980
for brass nonet

Dorothy Freed  

Aquarius March for Brass Band

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1971
for brass band

  • Instrumentation
    1 E flat cornet, 5 B flat cornets, 1 B flat repiano cornet, 1 B flat flugelhorn, 2 B flat 2nd cornets, 2 B flat 3rd cornets, 3 E flat tenor horns, 2 B flat baritones, 2 B flat euphoniums, 2 B flat tenor trombones, 1 G bass trombone, 2 E flat bass, 2 B flat bass, snare drum, bass drum, cymbal.
  • Programme Note

    Scored for full brass band (about 27 players) this work was originally written for a brass band competition.

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John Rimmer  

Arioso-Spiritoso

Duration: 06' 00"
for flugelhorn and piano

Ross Harris  

Arquebus

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1986
for tuba and piano

Neville Hall  

beasts like shadows in glass

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for solo horn

Denise Hulford  

Bold as Brass

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1992
for brass quintet

  • Instrumentation
    trumpet in C; trumpet in B flat; horn in F; tenor trombone; tuba
  • Programme Note

    Bold as Brass is written for a brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. The work is designed to show to best advantage the varying qualities and abilities of each of these instruments, and accordingly there are solo passages and cadenzas for each. Hulford has experimented with each line as a “voice” and has manipulated and blended the differing timbres to excellent effect. The composition is in 3 movements. The first and third of these are reasonably fast and are somewhat aggressive in nature while the second is slower and reflective. The world premiere of the work occurred in Seoul, Korea, in October 1993 by members of the Korean National Orchestra. The work has not been performed in its entirety in New Zealand.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Brass Quintet

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1992

  • Instrumentation
    2 trumpets in C; Horn in F; tenor trombone; tuba
  • Programme Note

    Ritchie’s Brass Quintet is dedicated to his father, John Ritchie, and was composed in 1992 for the Canterbury Quintet. Unfortunately this ensemble folded before the work could be performed, and consequently the composer had not heard the work prior to the recording by the NZ Chamber Brass. Ritchie notes that, at the time of composing the work, he was fascinated by the work of several Minimalist composers, this influence being most apparent in the first two movements.

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Kenneth Young  

Brass Quintet No.1

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1980
for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba

  • Programme Note

    Young’s Brass Quintet No. 1 was composed in 1980 to a commission from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Brass Quintet. It was first performed (with Young himself playing tuba) in Wanganui and Wellington as part of the first half of an NZSO programme which included Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. The following year the work was recorded by the Quintet for the Kiwi Pacific label, along with John Ritchie’s Partita and Douglas Lilburn’s Quartet for Brass.

    In writing this Quintet, Young wanted to composed a more substantial work than was common in the brass quintet repertoire of the time; consequently, it has an almost symphonic breadth.

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David Farquhar  

CANZ Box 4065

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1994
for three trumpets

Lyell Cresswell  

Canzone

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1992
for trombone and organ