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Craig Utting  

Agnus Dei

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1989
for SATB choir

Ronald Dellow  

All who Love and Serve your City

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1989
for unison choir and organ (or piano)

Jack Speirs  

Cantico del Sole

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for soprano soloist, mixed choir and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3000;0330; perc, hp, pf; strings
  • Programme Note

    Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

    The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

    In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

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Jack Speirs  

Cantico del Sole

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for soprano soloist, mixed choir, chamber ensemble and organ

  • Instrumentation
    3 trumpets, 3 trombones; percussion, harp, piano, organ
  • Programme Note

    This version of the work has been arranged for a smaller ensemble, with organ replacing the strings.

    The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth. In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine.

Ronald Tremain  

Flourish

 Year: 1989
for brass ensemble

Katherine Dienes  

God Be With You

 Year: 1989
for SSAATTBB choir

Leonie Holmes  

Hodie Christus Natus Est

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for SATB choir, 4 women soloists and two bongo players

John Ritchie  

Jubilate Deo

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1989
for SSA choir and orchestra

Dorothy Buchanan  

La Passion du Jeanne D'Arc

Duration: 1h 27' 00" Year: 1989
arranged from Alix et Pouget's score for soprano, mezzo, SSA choir and organ

Douglas Mews  

Lazarus

Duration: 1h 05' 00" Year: 1989
a biblical opera for 11 characters and chamber orchestra