Sub Navigation

Search Music:

Search for music by typing a word or phrase in the box below or by selecting one or more categories from the list on the side.

Or search for products by selecting an option below, and typing a word or phrase in the box above

  • Scores
  • CDs and DVDs
  • Downloads
  • Education Resources

Christopher Marshall  

Flights of Fancy

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1994
Settings of eight New Zealand poems for Soprano and Piano

Ashley Heenan  

Jack Winter's Dream

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1958, r. 1984
nine portraits for orchestra

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Len Songs

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2003
for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin and piano

Dorothy Buchanan  

Miss Brill

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1998
an opera in one act

Edwin Carr  

Poems for Piano and Orchestra

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1988
for piano and orchestra

Douglas Lilburn  

Salutes to Seven Poets

Duration: 29' 00" Year: 1952
for violin, piano, and narrator

  • Programme Note

    Curnow requested this work from Lilburn in 1952 for a poetry reading at Auckland University College. The event took place on the evening of 9 August that year, and involved a substantial amount of poetry (twenty-two poems in total) read by the poets involved. (Actually the works of eight poets were represented: Baxter read “Canto at Twenty-seven” by Louis Johnson).

    Lilburn’s music was premiered by Antonia Braidwood (violin) and Donald Bowick (piano). One movement was supposed to precede each reading, providing the audience with the composer’s musical impressions of the work and personality of each poet. In the event, however, the order was reversed, which led to some confusion for the audience and some displeasure for the composer. Typical of New Zealand composition of the time, there was no fee to be had for the work. Lilburn even had to pay his way to Auckland for the rehearsals. On his return to Wellington, Lilburn shelved and forgot about the work. It was not until a chance meeting at his doctor’s surgery in 1988/89 that he was reminded of its existence by Lady Dorothea Turner, who had reviewed the first performance. At that point Lilburn contacted the violinist Dean Major to ask if he would be interested in performing it. After some negotiation the composer also determined that he would write a narration to go along with the music in lieu of the twenty-two poems, and (most surprisingly) volunteered to read this himself.

    Salutes to Seven Poets was recorded by Concert FM on 5 September 1989, by Major (violin), with Rae de Lisle (piano). As if to make up for thirty-eight years of neglect of the work, this recording received a Mobil Award in 1990.

    (Note by Nancy November).

  • Availability

Dorothy Buchanan  

The Woman at the Store

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1997
an opera in one short act for four soloists with piano accompaniment