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Tecwyn Evans  

Akaroa

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir

Ross Harris  

... and the final sky

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1995
for unaccompanied SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    This work was inspired by seeing interviews with returned servicemen on the television programme New Zealand at War. The emotional power of their recollections of long hidden experiences led me to look for ways to express my feelings about the horrors of war. The setting attempts to make a stark contrast between the imagery of the poetry and the music.
    (Ross Harris 1996)

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Christopher Marshall  

Kyrie Eleison (for the end of the century)

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1995
for choir, solo soprano, organ, piano and percussion

Christopher Marshall  

New Zealand Advent Triptych

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir with soprano and bass soloists

  • Programme Note

    A cycle of three Advent anthems with a text by S.E. Murray for ‘a cappella’ SATB choir. No. 2 contains solos for high soprano and bass. Commissioned by Prof. Peter Godfrey and the Kapiti Chorale in 1995, the work was first performed by Southern Consort of Voices in May 1996. By turns tender, meditative, and exhilarating with fresh, piquant harmonies.

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Tecwyn Evans  

Onward

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir

Helen Caskie  

Remembered Music

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir and flute

Anthony Ritchie  

The Rose Family

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1995
for a cappella choir in up to 7 parts with soprano soloist

  • Programme Note

    The Rose Family was commissioned by Viva Voce of Auckland and composed in 1995. The theme of roses and some of the texts were chosen by Viva Voce’s conductor, John Rosser.

    The eight songs deal in a fairly light way with a variety of aspects of that most romantic of flowers, from love and happiness through to suffering, pain and death. Edmund Waller’s Go, lovely rose is a characteristic idealisation of a young woman and is romantic in style. In Herrick’s To the Rose, the rose is used to entrap a lover and force her to submit, and the music reflects this cruelty. Dorothy Parker suggests roses are all very well but she would have preferred a new car from her lover. The final song is an arrangement of James Oppenheim’s suffragette song Bread and Roses, and recalls the the sweated labour of women from the past.

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Ronald Dellow  

Things Change Like The Seasons

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir

Ross Carey  

Two Pieces for mixed choir

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1995
for an ensemble of eight voices