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Robert Burch  

Capriccio for Four Saxophones

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1966
for saxophone quartet

John Rimmer  

Composition 1

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1968
for horn and electronic sounds

John Rimmer  

Composition 2

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1968, r. 1969
for wind quintet and electronic sounds

Anthony Watson  

Concert Piece

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1965
for violin and piano

David Farquhar  

Concerto for Wind Quintet

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1966
for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn

Dorothy Freed  

Diversion for Ten Brass Instruments

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1967
for concert brass

David Griffiths  

Dormi Jesu

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

Gillian Whitehead  

Fantasia on Three Notes

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1966
for piano

  • Programme Note

    For the composer, Fantasia is a particularly significant work. It was her first ever commission. Numerous performances in Europe by Tessa Birnie – including a premiere broadcast on Radio Turkey! – led to subsequent performances by other pianists. Displaying a new technical confidence from her studies with Peter Maxwell Davies, the work’s single unified structure marks a turning point in Whitehead’s composing method. The title, refers not so much to free fantasy but to the imagination required to create music from minimal material; in this case – the opening three-note motive. The work is in three sections, corresponding to these notes, and fabric of the entire piece is generated from them. There are patterns that emerge within sections, as well as those spanning the entire piece, (trills and tempi changes included). Because of the inherent symmetry of the generated material, with layers building up both forwards and backwards, Whitehead’s original intention was to make a palindromic structure, but it became instead a through-composed work with coda. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

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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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Ronald Tremain  

Five Epigrams for Twelve Solo Strings

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1967
for string ensemble of any size