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Eric Biddington  

A Piece for Maurice

Duration: 06' 06" Year: 2008
for piano and string orchestra

Eric Biddington  

Adagio for Bassoon and String Orchestra

Duration: 07' 30" Year: 2007

David Adlam  

Cellotron Chip

Duration: 06' 00" (can vary) Year: 2005
for solo cello and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    This work was written in rock-style to appeal to a wider community audience. Originally conceived to be performed on solo electric cello, it is equally performable acoustically.

David Hamilton  

Concerto Grosso No.2

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2004
for two violins, cello and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    The title of this work may seem unexpected as there is no ‘Concert Grosso No. 1’ in my list of works! However I’ve always considered my 1985 work for strings and percussion ‘Well Done, Mister Bach’ to be a concerto grosso. That work features the leaders of all five string parts as a ‘concertante’ group. In a more traditional Baroque manner, this work features just the leaders of the first and second violin and cello sections as the soloists. My intention with the work was to write something in the manner of a Baroque concerto grosso, drawing inspiration from typical styles of the period. Mixed in are my own musical and compositional preferences, so that in the end the piece might be described as ‘Baroque meets minimalism’. I finally gave into the temptation to give the three movements titles. The title, ‘Prelude’, of the first movement is a little ironic as it is longer than the remaining two movements combined. The second movement, ‘Air on a Shoestring’ suggests a rather brief, perhaps truncated air, in this case, a piece which fails to return to its home key. The final movement is in the manner of a Baroque fugue, I knew that university paper would finally come in useful one day!. ‘Concert Grosso No. 2’ was commissioned by the Music Department of St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, and follows a commission from them the previous year for ‘Whisper to me’ (for choir, strings and percussion).

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Thomas Goss  

Ecstasy of Flight

Duration: 09' 50" Year: 2002
tone poem for two violins and string orchestra

  • Programme Note

    Ecstasy of Flight captures a moment in the life of a child who longed for a companion in her isolated life in the precise middle of nowhere. She was visited by a powerful dream, of wings, the curling of the wind in the cloud-tops, the perfect peace of the blue land of the sun, and the shape of the world as one great, majestic song. That was the moment in her life from which she could look back later as an adult composer and say that it all began.

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Philip Norman  

Mr Fezziwig's Dance Party

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
from 'A Christmas Carol' for solo violin or flute and string orchestra

Thomas Goss  

Pale Sun Over Cold Land

Duration: 05' 15" Year: 2001
String orchestra with erhu solo (may also be played by solo violin)

Eric Biddington  

Peace for Hanna (Adagio for French Horn and Strings)

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for french horn and string orchestra