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Warwick Blair  

Accordian

Duration: 51' 00" Year: 2004
for harp, piano, marimba, percussion (3), bass guitar, keyboard, and tape

Brigid Ursula Bisley  

In Memoriam

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2004
for ensemble, taonga puoro, and voices

  • Instrumentation
    2 fl. (dbl. alto flute, 2 players), oboe (dbl. cor anglais, 1 player), clarinets (1), piano, percussion (1 player: vibraphone, triangle, maracas, rainsticks, 3 gongs of different sizes, small tambourine), drumkit, violins (2), viola, cellos (2), bass, taonga puoro: wooden koauau, iwi kuri, iwi maire, large putorino, putatara, porotiti, birdcalls; 1-2 baroque sopranos, 1 chamber soprano, 1 Maori female voice (alto range)
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John Cousins  

In Place

Duration: 40' 54" Year: 2004
multichannel electroacoustic

John Drummond  

Marriage a la Mode

Duration: 36' 00" Year: 2004
a salon opera in four scenes

Stephen Gallagher  

Mathematical Geography

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2004
electro-acoustic

John Cousins  

Rehab

Duration: 31' 00" Year: 2004
multichannel electroacoustic

Alan Cruise-Johnston  

Requiem for an Unknown Soldier

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2004
for SATB a cappella (and organ accompaniment)

  • Instrumentation
    SATB with organ
  • Programme Note

    Requiem For An Unknown Soldier was written in 2004, as a salute to those who have fallen in so many wars. It is also a statement about the barbaric futility of such conflicts, and the dishonesty of nations who sacrifice their young men, on the pretext that ‘it is a good and noble thing to give one’s life for one’s country.’ ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’

    The work uses traditional Latin texts from various parts of the Requiem Mass, and also settings of words by Wilfred Owen, the First World War poet. The short Requiem takes just over thirty minutes to perform, and requires a four-part choir, soprano and bass/baritone soloists, and organ.

    Three movements are a cappella, including the ‘Pie Jesu’ and ‘Agnus Dei’ which have been widely sung in other contexts. The Latin text is well known and gives the work universal acceptance throughout the choral world. The work has been available on the internet since late 2004, and well over a hundred copies have been downloaded. Requiem will be performed in Wanganui on or about Anzac Day 2007; in the northern hemisphere it would usually be performed on or about Remembrance Day 11 November.

    Benjamin Britten’s great War Requiem, commissioned for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962, and secondly by Helen Clark’s determination to have New Zealand’s own Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Wellington. The work’s bitterest moments recall the waste of so many young lives on foreign battlefields. It is not a comfortable work, but the many performances of ‘Pie Jesu’ and ‘Agnus Dei’ show that its quieter and more contemplative moments have general appeal. In contrast, the ‘Dies Irae’ for male voices uses vigorous repeated notes and tumultuous scale passages to conjure up the dreadful Day of Judgement. The ‘Sanctus’ presents unison voices with an opportunity to make a glorious declamation of “Hosanna in excelsis!” Owen’s harrowing words are the most touching moments of the work, and the bass/baritone has the task of communicating the horror of young men thrown into a situation of ‘kill, or be killed’.

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John Charles  

Spooked

Duration: 40' 00" Year: 2004
for small orchestra, for feature film

  • Instrumentation
    0000; 2020; strings; also sampled timpani, perc., hp, cel., piano

Anthony Ritchie  

The God Boy

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 2004
An opera in two acts based on the novel 'The God Boy' by Ian Cross

John Cousins  

The Revelation of St. John the Divine

Duration: 34' 43" Year: 2004
multichannel electroacoustic