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Douglas Lilburn  

A Birthday Offering

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1956
for orchestra

David Farquhar  

A Unicorn For Christmas

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1962
an opera in three acts

David Farquhar  

Anniversary Duos

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1961, r. 1993
for two guitars

David Griffiths  

Dormi Jesu

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1969
for SATB choir

David Farquhar  

Festival Te Deum

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1963
for SATB choir and organ

Jack Speirs  

Fioriture

 Year: 1969
for large orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    (1)22(1)22(1);06(3C,2B-flat)31;4perc;pf;cel;strs
  • Programme Note

    Commissioned for the centenary celebrations of the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1969, this work is built in five sections arranged as an arch. The first section consists of four ‘fanfares’ – the first fanfare is for six trumpets characterised by crescendo-diminuendo effects and long sustained notes which rise steadily through a series of semitonal steps to a climax; the second fanfare is for woodwind and percussion, the third is an extended version of the first, and the final fanfare modifies the second. This section leads directly into an agile, toccata-like allegro based on material from the trumpet fanfares. The third, central section is a long lento based on material from the woodwind fanfares. Here, biting dissonance and angular melody is replaced by gentle melodic lines and an ever-present backdrop of soft string chords. The fourth section returns to the character and ideas of the second leading to the work’s major climax which subsides into the original fanfares with which the work opened. Now, however, the music is turned back to front so that the gradual intensification of the opening becomes a process of gradual relaxation.

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David Farquhar  

I Sing of a Maiden

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1963
carol for unaccompanied SATB choir

David Farquhar  

Jubilate Deo

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1964
for trebles voices (or solo soprano), SATB choir and organ

John Ritchie  

Kyrie and Gloria

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1963
for SATB choir, strings, timpani

John Ritchie  

Lord, when the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1957
for SSATB choir