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Brent Parker  

Concertino No. 1

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1990
a concertino for solo guitar and piano

Brent Parker  

Concertino No. 2

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for solo guitar and piano

Ray Twomey  

Guitar Suite (Opus 19)

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1998
for guitar

Helen Fisher  

Otari

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 2005
for solo harp

  • Programme Note

    Like my piano solo Where the river flows, Otari (2004) for solo harp is inspired by one of my favourite Wellington places, Otari Bush near my home, which is a peaceful soundworld of birdsong, pools of stillness, and ebb and flow of wind and stream. The chorale-like theme that emerges towards the end is based on my Te Puna Waiora (Spring of Living Water).

    Overall, Otari is shaped by some words in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: " At the still point, there the dance is.."

    This work is dedicated to Carolyn Mills, principal harpist for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, whose innovative and enthusiastic collaboration enabled me to explore some extended harp techniques as part of the composing process. In March 2005, Otari was premiered in United States and since then it has received several performances in New Zealand and the United States as well as at three international Harp Festivals – London, San Francisco and Adelaide.

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Kit Powell  

Seven Aesop Fables

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
experimental sounds for beginners of guitar

Douglas Lilburn  

Seventeen Pieces for Guitar

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1962, r. 1970
for guitar

  • Programme Note

    Douglas Lilburn wrote a number of works for the guitar from the late 1960s onwards at a time when his creative energies were concerntrated on writing electro-acoustic music, but Ronald Burt persuaded him to contribute to the guitar repertoire and over several months throughout 1969 and 1970 he presented Burt with the collection which would be published in 1975 as Seventeen Pieces for guitar.

    Seventeen Pieces represents a comprehensive exploration of guitaristic possibilities in a contemporary setting.

    Graham Wade
    from album Prospero Dreaming: Lilburn and Farquhar, NAXOS

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Juliet Palmer  

Tufa

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1995
for guitar quartet