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Mike Nock  

After Satie

 Year: 2011
for jazz quintet

M Louise Webster  

An Infinite Shore

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2011
Clarinet quintet in three movements

  • Instrumentation
    Bb Clarinet, string quartet
  • Programme Note

    This work for clarinet quintet in three movements was written following time spent in the north of Scotland, during which I visited the remote and desolate places that my family left behind when they emigrated from Scotland to New Zealand in the 19th Century. Although the music is not intended to be strictly descriptive, the image underpinning the work is that of an infinite shore that stretches from the line of steep cliffs at Badbea overlooking the North Sea, around the world to the rocky southern shores of Aotearoa New Zealand. The work draws on the tonal colour and extremes of pitch that are possible in the clarinet, and the extraordinary platform of sound of the string quartet.

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Lissa Meridan  

an invisible spell

 Year: 2011
for piano trio

Mike Nock  

Colours

 Year: 2011
for jazz quintet

Lyell Cresswell  

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra arr. by The Heavy Metal Ninjas

 Year: 2011
The Heavy Metal Ninjas' arrangement for the 2011 Silver Scroll Awards

Chris Adams  

Contemporary Triptych

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2011
for flute, bassoon and piano

Chris Gendall  

Eigene Gestalt

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2011
for flute, guitar, cello and piano

Chris Adams  

F.S.M. Hallelujah!

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2011
for string quartet and clarinet in B flat

  • Programme Note

    F.S.M. could stand for: Fabricated Sheet Metal; Fault Summary Message; Federated States of Micronesia; Female Seeking Male; Fiji School of Medicine; Financial Services Marketing; Finite-state machine; Fire Safety Manager; Flying Spaghetti Monster; Franciscan Sisters of Mary; Free Speech Movement; Frequency Shift Modulation; Full Screen Mode and at least 250 other possibilities.

    Hallelujah is used to express praise or joy.

    It is conceivable that the title of this piece has some relevance to the music. It is less likely that this programme note will help the audience to determine the relevance of the title or compositional intent of the composer.

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Kenneth Young  

Four Questions, No Answers

 Year: 2011
for mixed chamber septet

  • Instrumentation
    oboe, clarinet in Bb, horn in F, violin, soprano, guitar and piano
  • Programme Note

    The work began as a series of four miniatures; however, as is often the case, matters have progressed somewhat beyond mere frippery.

    All the movements seem to me to have a questioning quality to them which seemed to coincide with some philosophical angst of my own, the details of which are irrelevant. This is in no way programme music and I would merely like for the listener to perhaps reflect on questions in their own lives, whatever they may be.

    I have utilised wordless soprano alongside some Latin verse. In particular the very opening of the Mass for the Dead and the first half of the In Paradisum from the same Mass which is sung in the original Gregorian Chant. My home town of Christchurch has suffered terribly during the past 12 months and I wanted somehow to reflect this in some small way.

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John Psathas  

Good for Nothing

 Year: 2011
original motion picture soundtrack composed by John Psathas

  • Programme Note

    “One of the principal glories of the film is the score by John Psathas, in which genuine sweep and poetry are combined with affectionate send-ups of Ennio Morricone. It would be a major achievement for an experienced film composer; as a first film score, it’s little short of astonishing.” — Jim Svejda, Classical KUSC (Los Angeles)

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