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David Farquhar  

Concerto for Six

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano

  • Programme Note

    The main theme of the first movement is built on a deliberately ‘square’ 4 note scale figure; this is interlaced with perfect 4th ‘wobbles’ and triplets and together they weave tonal games in a capricious journey.
    Four rich chords (all essentially triads with added semitones) which open out, bloom and close again are the flowers displayed in the tranquil second movement, and for the final a jaunty but restrained dance through various tonalities grows out of the subtle thematic combination of notes from both C and F sharp, normally the most distant keys.

    Notes taken from Ritual Auras, Atoll CD (ACD 842)

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Lyell Cresswell  

Fragments of Existence Withdrawn from Time

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1987
for trumpet, violin, and synthesiser

Jack Body  

Interior

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1987
for chamber septet and tape

  • Instrumentation
    flute, violin, clarinet, cello, piano, synthesiser, percussion and tape
  • Programme Note

    In 1987 the composer visited China and searched out the music of some of China’s so-called minority peoples. Field records made on this visit form the core of the work: the instrumental writing is mean as an enchancing backdrop to direct our listening to the ‘interior’ of the music.
    First is heard to long-ge, a three-bladed Jews harp of the Yi nationality (Sichuan province). Next three women of the Miao nationality (Guizhou province) sing a melody of strong character with long notes and leaping intervals further enhanced by the gradual melting into a unison. The words mean “though we die, our songs like mountains, go on forever”. Finally we hear an ensemble of lusheng played by youths of the Ge nationality (Guizhou province) accompanying a dance. This six-piped bamboo mouth organ is common in the south of China and is found in various forms throughout Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and parts of Indonesia.

    Notes taken from Ritual Auras, Atoll CD (ACD 842)

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Eric Biddington  

Music for Friends

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1987, r. 2002
a collection of miniatures for violin, cello and piano

Lyell Cresswell  

Variations on a Theme by Charles Ives

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1987
for flute and cello