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Lyell Cresswell  

A Modern Ecstasy

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
for baritone, mezzo soloists and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2222 (with doublings); 4331; 2perc, timp; strs.
• Programme Note

  This orchestral work with mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists was commissioned anonymously for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by “Macbeth” Act IV Sc III. The text is by Patrick McGuire and the work is in seven movements.

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  • Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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Annea Lockwood  

A Sound Map of the Hudson River

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1982
a tape installation

• Programme Note

  This work is a tape installation, “tracing the course of the mighty Hudson by way of taped sound and interviews about the river. It was a work of simple natural beauty.” Kerr, The Listener.

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  • Lockwood: A Sound Map of the Hudson River  Year: 1989 

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Mike Nock  

Aotearoa

Duration: 40' 00" Year: 1981
suite for jazz piano and chamber orchestra

• Instrumentation
  111(ca)1; 1100; flugel horn; strings
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William Dart  

Away with the Fairies

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1983
a divertissement for diva

• Instrumentation
  voice and piano
• Programme Note

  Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers’ music.

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  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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Chris Cree Brown  

Boulder Bank

Duration: 5h 00' 00" Year: 1983
a performance work

John Cousins  

Bowed Peace

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1986
performance installation

Susan Frykberg  

Caroline Herschel is minding the Heavens

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1988
An electroacoustic music theatre

• Instrumentation
  For computers, synthesisers, acting and song

Lyell Cresswell  

Cello Concerto

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1984
for cello and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  3+pc,3+ca,3+bs-cl,3+c-bn; 4331;3perc,timp,hp;strs and solo cello.
• Programme Note

  An essay in tension between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement long cello solos are contrasted with outbursts from the orchestra; in the second movement cello and orchestra merge – the cello sound coloured by various doublings; and the last movement is a moto perpetuo again contrasting soloist with orchestra. Premiered by cellist Alexander Baillie, conducted by Matthias Bamert and the Scottish National Orchestra.

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  • Cresswell: Cello Concerto; facsimile 

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  • Lyell Cresswell: Orchestral Music -1  Year: 1991 

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Kit Powell  

Christophorus

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1981, r. 1982
Christmas cantata for baritone, children's chorus, wind orchestra and percussion

• Instrumentation
  Solo baritone, childrens' chorus Orchestra: 2222; 2220; timp., perc.(2), pno, organ; no strings. Uses slide projections
• Programme Note

  The first version was written in 1981 collectively with Andre Fischer, a pupil at the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach. It is a setting of words from an advent calendar by Max Bolliger. It is scored for baritone soloist (Christophorus), children’s chorus and wind orchestra, with percussion. The work was performed twice in December 1981.

  Christophorus tells the story of St. Christopher, a very strong man, who is searching for an ogre who rules the world. Each year, instead of finding the ogre, he finds a child in distress. In the eighth year, still searching, he meets Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. During the night, when Jesus is born, the child speaks to him and says he has met the ogre seven times already. Christophorus now knows what the ogre is, but is much less sure of his ability to conquer lt.

  The characters of and the children whom he meets are dressed in costume, but do not act. The Cantata is, however, illustrated by a series of slides which are shown during the whole performance.

  In 1982 in Christchurch I revised Christophorus and translated the text into English. It was performed for a season before Christmas of that year, with James Dames singing the part of Christophorus. This revised version has double wind, piano, organ and three percussionists, plus the children’s chorus. A recording was made.

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Douglas Mews  

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1986