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Lyell Cresswell  

Apteryx

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2000
for solo piano

• Programme Note

  “Apteryx – A New Zealand bird, about the size of a goose, with merely rudimentary wings and no tail, called by the natives Kiwi.” (Shorter Oxford Dictionary, Third Edition 1944.) The kiwi, like the composer of this work, is flightless, short-sighted and clears its nostrils often. ‘Apteryx’ was commissoned by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in 2000.

Gillian Bibby  

Bird Looks in the Window

Duration: 00' 45" Year: 2007
for solo piano from 'The Bad Bird Book'

• Programme Note

  From The Bad Bird Book

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  • Sunrise: Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

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Anthony Ritchie  

Birds and a Steam Train in the Catlins

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1991
for piano

• Programme Note

  This piece was written in 1991 for Ann Saslav. It is based on an imaginary scene from years ago when a railway branch line went through native bush in the Catlins area of New Zealand. The motif at the start is a bird-call the composer heard in the area. This piece is aimed at grade 7 or 8 level, and was initially performed in schools by Ann Saslav as part of an educational project.

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  • Ritchie, A: Two Pieces for the Saslavs; facsimile 

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  • First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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  • Expressions - piano music by Anthony Ritchie  Year: 2010 

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Gillian Bibby  

Dangerous Mission

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2007
for solo piano from 'The Bad bird Book'

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  • Sunrise: Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

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Gillian Bibby  

Dawn Chorus

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 2007
for solo piano from 'The Bad Bird Book'

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  • Sunrise: Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

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Alison Carey  

Fugue Waikouaiti

Duration: 02' 10" Year: 2009
for organ

• Programme Note

  The fugue is named for the landing-place of Carey Family in Otago in 1840. They travelled from Sydney in the Magnet to work for ‘Johnny’ Jones at Matanaka, Waikouaiti, the site of New Zealand’s oldest farm buildings.

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  • Carey, A.: Organ Voluntaries Book 3; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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Jillian Bray  

Kapua (Clouds)

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2001
for piano

• Programme Note

  The clouds drifting or scudding low over Wellington Harbour conjure up special childhood memories in the mind of the composer.

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  • Bray: Evocations - two Grade 7 piano pieces; computer set 

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Alison Carey  

Kotuku

Duration: 01' 35" Year: 2009
for organ

• Programme Note

  Kotuku was written in the heat of a Central Otago summer after seeing many kotuku or white herons on a day trip from Whataroa on the West Coast.

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  • Carey, A.: Organ Voluntaries Book 3; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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Jonathan Crehan  

Landmark

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2008
a loose set of variations for organ on a theme from "Symphony No. 3" by Douglas Lilburn

John Wells  

March Waikato

Duration: 04' 00"
arranged for organ

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  • Wells: March Waikato; computer-set 

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  • John Wells: From the Land of the Long White Cloud  Year: 1991 

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