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Jack Body  

14 Stations

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2000
for amplified pianist

• Programme Note

  A music-theatre work especially written for Wellington pianist Dan Poynton. Although referring indirectly to religious symbolism, the composition focuses on the physical and mental stress that pianists submit themselves to.

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Jonathan Besser  

5757 A Symphonic Tone Poem

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2 picc.232 cb. 433 tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano/celeste, strings
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Juliet Palmer  

A Bridge of Ice

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1994
for double bass and tape

• Programme Note

  The tape part for A Bridge of Ice was recorded on Williamsburg Bridge, New Year’s Day, 1994. A Bridge of Ice was premiered by Robert Black.

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  • Juliet Kiri Palmer: Tufa and A Bridge of Ice 

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John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

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  • Wells: A New Zealand Suite; computer set 

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  • John Wells: From the Land of the Long White Cloud  Year: 1991 

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Bryony Jagger  

A New Zealand Symphony

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1980
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2222; 4231; timp, 2perc; strs

Jonathan Crehan  

Aftermath

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2004
a sonata for cello and piano

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Chris Cree Brown  

Alphabet

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1983, r. 1986
music theatre for choir (22 voices), two musicians and soloist

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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  • 5 Works by M Louise Webster 

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Dorothy Buchanan  

An Ocean Between Us

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2006
for mezzo-soprano and piano quartet

• Instrumentation
  violin, viola, cello, piano
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  • Buchanan: An Ocean Between Us; computer-set 

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Chris Adams  

Anastasis

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2009
for full orchestra

• Instrumentation
  3*3*3**3*;4331;timp; perc; hp; strings
• Programme Note

  Anastasis is an exploration of musical contrasts where chamber music elements of intimacy and social interplay are juxtaposed with the colour and power of a full symphonic orchestra. Baroque Concerto Grosso traditions form the conceptual basis of Anastasis: instrumental divisions within the orchestra, like the wind sections, are exploited, and new instrumental groupings have been created using combinations of individual players across the ensemble. Elements from the twentieth century Concerto for Orchestra form have also been utilised, particularly the focus on the diversity of instrumental colour, extended instrumental range and virtuosity, and the array of dynamic and textural possibilities.

  “Anastasis, our first taste of the APO’s resident composer, Chris Adams, proved to be a most attractive score.

  Adams knows where and how to uncover unexpected colours in a piece that enjoys jolting us with huge orchestral shouts in among more subdued, almost filigree passages.

  The second movement unfolds, with woodwind patterning, from lounge-laden harmonies and Adams nods to all manner of musics throughout the piece, right through to its conga-line finale.

  It is an appealing score that deserves a life beyound this single performance."

  William Dart, NZ Herald 7th September, 2009
  For the full article please click here

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  • Chris Adams: Anastasis - Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 

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