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Edwin Carr  

Akarana

 Year: 1999
four symphonic sketches for large orchestra

Christopher Blake  

Auckland!!!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1999
fanfare for orchestra

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Aurora

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1990
fanfare for orchestra

Ian Sinclair  

Balfour & Paterson - A Dedication

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1998
for symphony orchestra and written for the Otago-Southland sesquicentenary celebration

Dugal McKinnon  

Blue Kisses Green

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1999, r. 2000
for six-channel tape and orchestra

Patrick Shepherd  

cryosphere

 Year: 2006
for full orchestra

  • Programme Note

    cryosphere is a world of ice; a world of neutral tones of white and black where little life survives in the extreme cold and, paradoxically, extreme dryness. This work attempts to recreate the feeling and emotions of Antarctica, starting with a massive eruption of sound in the opening two bars, the energy of which subsides slowly into a peaceful world of subtle, pale colour. In Antarctica one feels as if one is experiencing the aftermath of huge disruption, of massive forces, which have come together in awesome strength but have now settled and become (temporarily) covered in a soothing blanket of white. Of course, there is nothing soothing about this blanket – it comprises layer upon layer of ice, continually in a state of flux as the massive ice sheets move under the enormous strain. Antarctica is peaceful and energetic, beautiful and brutal, empty and yet eerily full. This work attempts to draw some of these ideas together and to capture a part of the essence that is the earth’s last true great wilderness. I am indebted to Antarctica New Zealand for the opportunity to travel to Antarctica and gain the inspiration essential for the creation of my work.

    Patrick Shepherd

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Karlo Margetic  

Dubina

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2005
for orchestra

Daniel Stabler  

eccco fantasy for orchestra

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2002, r. 2005
for orchestra

Yvette Audain  

Eulogy

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2010
for full symphony orchestra and narrator

  • Instrumentation
    piccolo, flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon 1 and 2, 3 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 2 percussionists (crash cymbals, suspended cymbals, roto-toms, claves, rain stick, vibraphone), harp, strings and narrator
  • Programme Note

    I enjoyed performing and recording Eulogy very much. Such a warmth of texture and harmonies which created a sympathetic palette for Olivia Macassey’s word painting” – Kenneth Young

    My decision to set this text for orchestra initially arose, not only from reading the poem and appreciating it for what it is, but also from the recent passing of a dear musician colleague with whom I had collaborated on many early jazz projects.

    However, at time of writing, I have become most un-nerved by the senseless loss of young life that has been occurring with alarming regularity at a couple of schools I have recently taught at. It was with these tremendously sad, sudden passings in mind that I completed my work on the piano short score of Eulogy, before commencing work on its orchestration.

    Yvette Audain

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Leonie Holmes  

Frond

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2004
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4231; timp., perc. 1 (glock., xyl., sus. cym., tri., bongos, tub. bells), perc. 2 (vib.), hp, pno (and celesta); strings
  • Programme Note

    A scene from childhood, remembered as a half peaceful, half eerie dream sequence. Deep in the bush where there were no cicadas singing, the moist smell of soil, a small stream, dark ferns. Occasional streaks of sunlight struck the water. The middle of the ponga fern looked as if it would be a perfect bed to curl up in. I half believed that there were bush-dwelling creatures that did live and sleep there, watching me from the shadows.

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