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Ross Carey  

A Won for Buddha

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2001
for piano - four hands

  • Programme Note

    Counting through the tones of ‘In a Landscape’ by John Cage, in the manner of counting a rosary. The title means an offering to Buddha; this is not so much a material offering but more that of a good heart.

    Composed in Toronto in June, 2001 and first performed by the Natsuki Emura Piano Duo in a concert of New Zealand piano music at MusiCasa, Tokyo in October 2001.

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Brent Parker  

Achill Suite

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2002
for piano

Nigel Keay  

Adagietto Antique

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2009
Trio for clarinet, viola & piano

Gareth Farr  

Ahi

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2003
for piano trio

  • Instrumentation
    for violin, cello and piano
  • Programme Note

    In January 1998 Gareth Farr was commissioned by the James Wallace Chariable Trust to write this Piano Trio for the Ogen Trio, a leading NZ ensemble. Taking its subtitle Ahi from the Maori word for “fire”, it received its debut performance in Auckland, NZ in March 1998 in the presence of the composer. The style of the work varies in each of the four movements: the flavour of a French lullaby predominates in the first; an intense and unrelenting second movement harbours overtones of a Russian military factory; whilst a Balinese pop-inspired fourth movement contains numerous gamelan-like effects. The brief third movement is merely a quiet interlude, with a melodic reference to the first movement. The composition stands in stark contrast to Farr’s previous works. He has experimented with stripping away the density characteristic of past compositions in favour of clearer textures, exploring classical form, and allowing a simplicity of line to come through and speak for itself.

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John Rimmer  

Ancestral Voices

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
electroacoustic work

Rachael Morgan  

Armannai

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2003
for string orchestra

Philip Brownlee  

As if to catch the fleeting tail of time

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2009
for guitar and ensemble

Ross Harris  

As though there were no God

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2003
for orchestra

Thomas Goss  

Broken Glass

Duration: 17' 05" Year: 2000
a suite for violin and guitar

  • Programme Note

    Broken Glass portrays a dialogue between two opposing natures about the passing of beauty as represented by the two instruments of guitar and violin. It is a meditation on how two people create the ending within themselves for their mutual story, and collaborate through both tension and surrender to bring that ending to life.

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Jenny McLeod  

Cat Dreams

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2008
for nine players

  • Instrumentation
    for piccolo, koauau (or second piccolo), flute, clarinet in B flat, percussion, marimba, vibraphone, harp and piano
  • Programme Note

    My brother and his partner had two black cats, Doris, the elder (and undisputed boss), was half the size of Stanley. The cats arrived one day quite unheralded, realised they were onto a good thing, and promptly settled down as rulers of the house. In old age Doris went slightly spastic and wonky. We all thought she would go first, but she lived my brother.

    Jenny McLeod

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