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Mike Nock  

Chimera

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1995
for string quartet and solo jazz piano

James Gardner  

Grauschlieren

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2003
for clarinet in A and string quartet

• Programme Note

  The title ‘Grauschlieren’, meaning “grey streaks”, is taken from a painting by Gerhard Richter, and this torso for clarinet quintet is an attempt to render audible some of the notions of greyness, repetition and blurring prompted by Richter’s work.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Hale

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2011
for solo trombone with mixed ensemble and pre-recorded tape

• Instrumentation
  solo bass trombone, flute, clarinet, bass/contrabass clarinet, cello and pre-recorded track
• Programme Note

  Hale, 2011, for solo bass trombone, alto flute, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, cello and pre-recorded tape.
  ‘Dum spiro spero. While I breathe, I hope’

  Hale is a sonic meditation on life and death, dedicated to the memory of my mother Brya who died in August 2011. Intimate, incantatory and nostalgic, it contains few instrumental lines, but rather seeks to present a contained meditative ritual in which the listener may reflect on issues of mortality. Recordings of breathing, Brya’s poems, fleeting memories of Bach, church bells and birds provide a sonic halo to the heartbeat tread of the cello and the trombone’s keening of a tune based on Flanagan and Allen’s Hometown.

  Leave your shadow when you go So your going’s not complete And I’ll have your company In thin measure till we meet

  by Brya Kings (1931 – 2011)

Gareth Farr   Richard Nunns  

He Poroporoaki (Saying Goodbye)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2008
for string quartet and taonga puoro

• Programme Note

  This work was intended to feature something of New Zealand’s spirit and is a ‘deconstructed’ version of Now is the Hour.

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  • notes from a journey  Year: 2010 

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Ken Wilson  

Introduction, Theme and Variations

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1965
for piccolo or flute and string quartet

• Instrumentation
  A flat piccolo or E flat flute
• Programme Note

  Chamber music work for an unusual high piccolo flute and string quartet

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Neville Hall  

It Begins...

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1991
for chamber ensemble of four clarinets and violin

• Instrumentation
  4 cl (sop., 2 B flat, bass)
• Programme Note

  Although each of the nine miniatures that comprise this set is a self contained formal entity, there are strong cyclic elements, particularly in their rhythmic and harmonic make up. These correspondences are due to the fact that all of the pieces draw from the same pool of source material. The nine pieces are arranged symmetrically around the central solo violin cadenza. The lengths of the pieces have been carefully controlled to reinforce this symmetrical arrangement.

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Bryony Jagger  

On Another's Sorrow

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1981
for clarinet, 2 horns and 2 bassoons

Rachel Clement  

Scoria

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2000
for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello and timpani

• Instrumentation
  Bflat / Eflat clarinets
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Martin Lodge  

sub rosa

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2008
for oboe quintet

• Instrumentation
  oboe, violins (2), viola, cello
• Programme Note

  Sub rosa literally means ‘beneath the rose’. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, one of the connotations of the rose has been secrecy or discretion (Aphrodite gave a rose to her son Eros who passed on to Harprocrates, the Greek god of silence).

  This short piece for oboe quintet was written to a specific narrative which is sub rosa – it cannot be revealed. So there are sudden changes of pace, of perspective and emotional temperature in the music: think of it as a miniature soap opera whose plot is hidden and which you are invited to work out for yourself.

Chris Watson  

tag (and release)

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2012
for trombone and string quartet

• Programme Note

  Tag: as in the children’s game; the soloist is ‘it’.

  Release: a release for the composer (and his performers) from previous modes of engagement with small ensemble music that have almost always required the services of a conductor. In this work perpetual, conventionally written soli are passed between the players. When not playing soli, musicians are reacting loosely to the solo line with a series of gestures; the soloist becomes a conductor of sorts.

  Tag and release: from recreational fishing, in the interests of research and conservation.

  The work is continuous but divided into three sections.

  soli 1-7: introductory (loose) palindrome
  soli 8-14: suddenly noise-based…gradual re-emergence of pitch
  soli 18-20: intensification

  With thanks to the MCL, the Silo String Quartet, Barrie Webb and Jack Body.

  trombone chris watson string quartet tag (and release) composer Silo String Quartet Barrie Webb Jack Body Melbourne Composers League Chris Watson is awesome
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