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Juliet Palmer  

5 Cactus Dreams

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    vocalist, oboe, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, cactus and camera flash. Performed in darkness with light flashes to trigger each movement - performers also walk while playing.
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Chloe Moon  

A Crown of Windflowers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
for unaccompanied treble voices

Dorothy Buchanan  

A Matter of Timing

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1996
for SATB choir with string quartet, female narrator and mezzo-soprano

David Farquhar  

ABC

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for SATB choir

Bryony Jagger  

Abortion Debate

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1978
for 2 choirs and 2 sopranos

Maarire Goodall  

Aramoana - Pathway to the Sea

Duration: 08' 00"
for piano

Ian Sinclair  

Balfour & Paterson - A Dedication

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1998
for symphony orchestra and written for the Otago-Southland sesquicentenary celebration

Ian McDonald  

Cantata for Joanna

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1976
for mezzo, tenor, chorus, wind quintet and jazz group

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight I

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1995
for bass clarinet

  • Programme Note

    The first in my Chaos of Delight series of pieces based on birdsong, Chaos of Delight I requires the bass clarinettiest to trill, click, screech, book and roll in a virtuosic display of avian sonorities, using the full range of the instrument, from the boom of the kakapo to the shriek of the the morepork and the bleat of the bush falcon. All these can be heard amongst sounds which exploit the unique characteristics of the bass clarinet, such as its uncannily high register, slap tonguing and multiphonics.

    The title is taken from a passage in A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Falla, Gibson and Turbott: “…there are still many quiet places far from the madding crowd, where the mind can become, in Darwin’s phrase, ‘a chaos of delight’ at the abundance and variety of birds which pass before the eye or perplex the ear.”

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight II

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1996
for soprano (with two metal thumb clickers)