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Jonathan Besser  

5757 A Symphonic Tone Poem

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra

Bryony Jagger  

A New Zealand Symphony

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1980
for orchestra

Chris Adams  

Anastasis

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2009
for full orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3*3*3**3*;4331;timp; perc; hp; strings
  • Programme Note

    Anastasis is an exploration of musical contrasts where chamber music elements of intimacy and social interplay are juxtaposed with the colour and power of a full symphonic orchestra. Baroque Concerto Grosso traditions form the conceptual basis of Anastasis: instrumental divisions within the orchestra, like the wind sections, are exploited, and new instrumental groupings have been created using combinations of individual players across the ensemble. Elements from the twentieth century Concerto for Orchestra form have also been utilised, particularly the focus on the diversity of instrumental colour, extended instrumental range and virtuosity, and the array of dynamic and textural possibilities.

    Anastasis, our first taste of the APO’s resident composer, Chris Adams, proved to be a most attractive score.

    Adams knows where and how to uncover unexpected colours in a piece that enjoys jolting us with huge orchestral shouts in among more subdued, almost filigree passages.

    The second movement unfolds, with woodwind patterning, from lounge-laden harmonies and Adams nods to all manner of musics throughout the piece, right through to its conga-line finale.

    It is an appealing score that deserves a life beyound this single performance."

    William Dart, NZ Herald 7th September, 2009
    For the full article please click here

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Lyell Cresswell  

Ara Kopikopiko

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 2004
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    (1)2 (2nd dbls alto fl., 3rd dbls picc.)2(1)2(1)2(1); 4331; strings
  • Programme Note

    Lyell Cresswell describes his work Ara Kopikopiko, which takes its title from the Maori word for Labyrinth, as a concerto for orchestra in which the instruments and ideas are treated as tesserae in a mosaic, assembled to catch the light at different angles. At its premiere the work was introduced by the composer and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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Noel Sanders  

Belle Isle

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1976
for chamber orchestra

Stephan Prock  

Cages for the Wind

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2012
a song cycle for soprano and orchestra

Chris Cree Brown  

Celestial Bodies

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2004, r. 2005
for orchestra, electro-acoustic sounds and images

John Elmsly  

Cello Symphony

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1986
for solo cello and orchestra

Helen Bowater  

Chameleon

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1994
for orchestra

Robert Burch  

Concertino

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
for solo horn, piano and string orchestra