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Christopher Norton  

Candles and Crowns

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1983
for SATB choir and piano

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John Rimmer  

De Aestibus Rerum

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1983
for chamber quintet

• Instrumentation
  clarinet, horn, violin, cello, piano
• Programme Note

  De Aestibus Rerum was composed for the centenary of the University of Auckland in 1983, and received its first performance in November of that year. The title means ‘on the ebb and flow of things’ and the work is based on a number of distinctive rhythmic and timbral ideas which grow and recede. One hears fluidic patterns, clear octaves with coloured resonances, shimmerings and tremolos, bird-like calls and repeated notes which move frequently at different speeds. A feature of the work is the free open sounding passages marked ‘cadenzas’ for clarinet, violin, cello and horn. In two of these passages the instruments proceed independently of each other.

  This work received first prize in the chamber music category of the International Horn Society Competition in 1984 and the work was subsequently performed at the International Horn Symposium, Detmold, Germany, in September 1986 by the Virginia Tech Ensemble.

  De Aestibus Rerum was recorded by the Karlheinz Company in October 1984.

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  • Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 10 - John Rimmer: Chamber Music  Year: 2008 

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Hugh Dixon  

Five Shakespeare Songs

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1983
A song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano

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  • A Little Lovely Dream - music by Hugh Dixon  Year: 2007 

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Alan Starrett  

Laying the Foundation

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1983
trio for two violas and cello

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Jack Body  

Melodies for Orchestra

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1983

• Instrumentation
  3(1pc,1alt.fl)222; 4331; 2perc,pf,hp; strs.
• Programme Note

  This work reflects my developing interest in the incredible diversity of melodic forms and styles as found outside the traditions of Western art music. The basis of the piece is a series of three transcriptions which I notated from recordings. The first is a Greek fiddle tune Horos Serraborrowed from a recording of Greek folk music; the second is a fragment for solo bamboo flute (saluang) which introduces a kind of sung poetry from West Sumatra; the third Hindi film theme as played by a street band in Pune, India, an ensemble comprising four clarinets, two trumpets and two drums. (The latter two recordings I made my self).

  These transcriptions for orchestra attempt to capture something of the style of playing and timbre of the original performances. Around these more or less literal reproductions I have added an orchestral fabric whose purpose is to create coherence and continuity within the work. I am not able to justify bringing together three different musics which are so unrelated culturally speaking – my intention is simply to try to convey something of the joy and excitement I experienced when I encountered each one for the first time.

  Jack Body, 1983

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  • Preview - a journey to Olympus, and beyond 

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  • Jack Body: Pulse  Year: 2001 

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Susan Frykberg  

Om 152 - Getting There

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1983
for cello and tape

Lyell Cresswell  

Orpheus and Eurydice, Running In and Invocation

Duration: 10' 30" Year: 1983
electronic tape for animated films by Leslie Keen

John Cousins  

Parade

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1983
for tape

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  • John Cousins: Sleep Exposure  Year: 1993 

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Peter Scholes (composer)  

Solos

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1983
for flute, clarinet, cello, 2 electric guitars, bass guitar and percussion

Craig Utting  

Sonate

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2009
for cello and piano

• Programme Note

  This is a single movement piece with wide range for both instruments; also wide-ranging in its emotional picture.

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