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David Farquhar  

Bells in their Seasons

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1974
for double choir and orchestra

Alexander Cowdell  

Cressida

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1976, r. 1986
for solo B flat clarinet, piano and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2 trumpets, tenor trombone, strings
  • Programme Note

    Two soloists represent the roles of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida encapsulating the instinctive elements of musical expression – love caught in a world of rational but destructive emotion – war.

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Dorothy Freed  

Down the Long, Long Trail

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1978
incidental music for four solo voices, violin, cello, piano and drums

Jonathan Besser  

Duet for Soprano and Cello

Duration: 22' 15" (can vary) Year: 1979
for soprano and cello

Jonathan Besser  

Duo for Soprano and Cello

Duration: 22' 15" (can vary) Year: 1979, r. 2009
for soprano and cello

John Rimmer  

Explorations-Discoveries

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1971, r. 2012
concerto for horn and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3[1.2.picc.]23[1.2.bass cl.]2; 4331; timp., 3 perc., harp, solo horn, strings
  • Programme Note

    A concerto for horn and orchestra, Explorations- Discoveries was composed in the early 1970’s at a time when the James Cook bicentenary was being celebrated. Just as the famous sailor explored and discovered, so to the composing of the work.

    The work is structured in five interrelated sections contrasting fast with slow preceded by a slow introduction and concluding with a slow coda. All these sections orbit a central palindrome.

    The horn is treated both lyrically and dramatically. Its music covers a wide range of pitch and dynamics and the instrument frequently is in dialogue with the orchestral horns.

    Explorations – Discoveries was first performed in 1975 at a studio recording by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alex Lindsay with Marcel Lambert as the horn soloist.

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Douglas Mews  

Joshua

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 1973
concerto for trombone and full orchestra

Christopher Blake  

Ribbonwood is Home (Series 1)

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 1976
5 pieces for piano

Lyell Cresswell  

Salm

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1977
for orchestra

Dorothy Freed  

String Quartet No. 2

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1970
for string quartet