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Mike Nock  

Aotearoa

Duration: 40' 00" Year: 1981
suite for jazz piano and chamber orchestra

• Instrumentation
  111(ca)1; 1100; flugel horn; strings
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Lyell Cresswell  

Cello Concerto

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1984
for cello and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  3+pc,3+ca,3+bs-cl,3+c-bn; 4331;3perc,timp,hp;strs and solo cello.
• Programme Note

  An essay in tension between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement long cello solos are contrasted with outbursts from the orchestra; in the second movement cello and orchestra merge – the cello sound coloured by various doublings; and the last movement is a moto perpetuo again contrasting soloist with orchestra. Premiered by cellist Alexander Baillie, conducted by Matthias Bamert and the Scottish National Orchestra.

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  • Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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Christopher Blake  

Concerto Aoraki

Duration: 38' 00"
concerto for violin and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  3*2*3*2; 4231; timp., perc. (3), hp; strings Percussion 1: tubular bells, 2 temple blocks (high and low), tam tam; Percussion 2: vibraphone; Percussion 3: marimba, glockenspiel, tam tam
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Lyell Cresswell  

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2010
for piano and orchestra

• Programme Note

  The composer writes: "Movements 3, 4, 5 and 6 were written before Edward (Harper) died, but he was already ill with cancer and the whole concerto was written under the shadow of this.

  The first movement, Funeral March, opens with a sequence of low six-note chords in the piano. These chords provide the basis for the complete concerto and are treated in various contrasting ways in each movement. The orchestra becomes an extension of the piano, sustaining these chords and taking them where the piano can’t go. The concerto is not a confrontation between soloist and orchestra – the piano is more like another section of the orchestra. A slow throbbing, but varying, pulse runs through the Funeral March – first in the harp, sometimes the timpani, sometimes pizzicato and, at the climax, with brass and woodwind. In the following tranquil Adagio the six-note chords are turned into serene melodic lines with quiet sustained chords in the strings. The first scherzo is short, fast and restless. The central movement, Addolorato (distressed, grieved, upset), is, in turn, slow and reflective (in the piano), and querulous and disturbing (in the orchestra), posing questions rather than offering solutions. The second scherzo is fast, light and fleeting – with a hushed centre. The second Adagio is composed of slow, unsettled and quiet chords leading to an angry outburst at the climax, and the pace in the final presto is only interrupted briefly with some reference to Adagio 1."

  Extract from a review by Michael Tumelty for “The Herald” in Scotland, 19 March 2012.: “Stars of the night were Lyell Cresswell, for his volcanic, volatile Piano Concerto, and pianist Stephen de Pledge for his powerhouse delivery, with its sledgehammer force and shockingly steel-like clarity in the poignant, reflective moments in the music.”

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Douglas Mews  

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1986

Gareth Farr  

Hikoi

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1999
concerto for percussion and large orchestra

• Instrumentation
  solo perc + 3(pic:pic:pic).2+ca.3(Ebcl:bcl).2+cbn / 4.3.3.1 / timp.4perc / hp / cel / str
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Jonathan Besser  

Jean

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1990
ballet in three acts for full orchestra, based on the life of Jean Batten

• Instrumentation
  (1)2121;2220;3perc, kybds,hp;strs (10-8-6-6-4) and tape.
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  • Jonathan Besser: Jean - The Ballet  Year: 1990 

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Victoria Kelly  

Riverworld

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 2002
music for pilot for TV series

• Instrumentation
  chamber orchestra, electronic media

Kenneth Young  

Symphony

Duration: 42' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  (1)32(+ca)3(incl E-flat and bs-cl)3(1);4331;3perc, timp,pf/cel;strs and solo soprano
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  • Kenneth Young - orchestral music  Year: 1998 

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Andrew Perkins  

Symphony - Der Bote

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1992
for mezzo soprano and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2222 (bcl); 4331; timp., perc.
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  • Perkins: Symphony 'Der Bote'; facsimile 

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