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Lyell Cresswell  

A Modern Ecstasy

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
for baritone, mezzo soloists and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2222 (with doublings); 4331; 2perc, timp; strs.
• Programme Note

  This orchestral work with mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists was commissioned anonymously for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by “Macbeth” Act IV Sc III. The text is by Patrick McGuire and the work is in seven movements.

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  • Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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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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  • Cresswell: Cello Concerto; facsimile 

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  • Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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Douglas Mews  

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1986

Gillian Whitehead  

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1982
for mezzo and chamber orchestra

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  • Whitehead: Eleanor of Aquitaine; facsimile 

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Tony Baker  

Scandanavian Suite

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1984
for solo tenor sax and other instruments

• Instrumentation
  solo tenor sax and fl/pc, ob/ca, cl/bs-cl, timp/vibes, hp, strs, jazz rhythm section of pf,guit,bs,drms
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  • Tony Baker: Scandinavian Suite 

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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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Edwin Carr  

Symphony No. 2 (The Exile)

Duration: 34' 00" Year: 1983
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  (1)33(1)3(1)3(1);4331;timp,perc, pf,hp;strs.
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  • Edwin Carr: Three Orchestral Works  Year: 1987 

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Hugh Dixon  

Undertow at Oakura

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1988, r. 2004
dance theatre music for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  (2)32(1)2(1)2; 4231; timp., perc.; strs.
• Programme Note

  A moonlit scene on a lonely beach with long slow waves rising and receding. Gradually they become more intense; their inward and outward criss-crossing revealing a dangerous undertow. The music reaches a climax, and, certain motives representing two of the principal dancers are heard. The mysterious ‘chorus’ of sirens, of Part 1, is briefly heard, and the principal Siren appears moving front stage while the ‘chorus’ recedes. The principal male dancer now rises, and in a dream, and is drawn towards her. She leads him closer to the sea and they dance to the ‘sea’ and ‘siren’ music. As he tries to hold her, she again and again is allusive, and taunts him deeper and deeper until the sea engulfs him. He drowned and thrown back by the waves onto the beach.

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  While living in retirement in Oakura I was given a synopsis by Val Deakin to write a ballet for her Dance Theatre in New Plymouth. She choreographed the second movement only and it was performed in New Plymouth with an ad hoc orchestra in 1989, myself conducting.

  Hugh Dixon, 22 November 2009

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John Charles  

Utu

Duration: 32' 00" Year: 1982
music for a feature film produced by Geoff Murphy and Don Blakeney and directed by Geoff Murphy

• Instrumentation
  3322; 4331; timp,perc, cel; strs.
• Programme Note

  From the music for this feature film was drawn, Utu – Suite for Orchestra (1987).

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  • John Charles: Utu (movie trailer); video 

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  • John Charles: Soundtrack from Utu  Year: 1993 

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