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Ashley Heenan  

1914 - Song Cycle

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1945
Four sonnets for Tenor and Piano

Hamilton Dickson  

Alone

 Year: 1952
for soprano and piano

Edwin Carr  

An Edith Sitwell Song Cycle

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1956
for mezzo-soprano, oboe and piano

Annea Lockwood  

Aspects of a Parable

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1964
For baritone and ten instruments

Robin Maconie  

Basia Memoranda

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1962
a song cycle for tenor and string quartet

Richard Fuchs  

Die Nachtigall

 Year: 1935
for tenor and piano

David Farquhar  

Eight Blake Songs

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1947, r. 1955
for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano

Richard Bolley  

Elegy

 Year: 1968
for tenor and piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Elegy

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1951
a song cycle for baritone and piano

  • Programme Note

    This song cycle was composed in 1951 and is a setting of poems by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, written as a memorial to Roy Dickson who died in an accident in the Southern Alps in 1947. The evocative settings range from the darkly sombre and dramatically powerful to the poignantly tender and sorrowful, reflecting both the moods and changing conditions of the New Zealand mountains and bush and the shifting emotions and expressions of grief over a life lost.

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Jenny McLeod  

Epithalamia

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1962
a song cycle for baritone and piano

  • Programme Note

    Written in McLeod’s second year of study at Victoria University, this piece shows influences of Benjamin Britten and David Farquhar. The text is a poem by W. S. Broughton, the older brother of one of her childhood friends. She was drawn to the poem because it expressed the disillusionment with religion she herself was experiencing at the time.

    Being a student work, Epithalamia has been somewhat neglected by performers, and has only recently been ‘rediscovered’. The youthful composer’s impressive self-confidence, both in the expressive use of the voice and in the effective piano writing is obvious. (Programme note: Mark Jones).

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