eSOUNZ March 2012

Welcome to the first eSOUNZ update of 2012!

eSOUNZ update March 2012

  In this issue:

  › Upcoming Events
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  › NZSO-SOUNZ-RNZC
    Recordings 2012
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  › New Anthony Ritchie CD
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  › Hidden Treasures
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  › SOUNZ Quiz
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NZSO-SOUNZ-RNZC Recordings

One of the most exciting developments during 2011 was the transformation of the ‘Readings’ into the ‘Recordings’.  Thanks to the generosity of the NZSO and Radio New Zealand Concert, the selected orchestral works will be performed, recorded and engineered to the highest standard and then – and this is the exciting development - made freely available on our media-on-demand platform (Experience section).

SOUNZ will be able to direct the ‘ears of the world’ to these newly recorded works, allowing artistic directors, programmers, broadcasters and interested listeners access to the scores, recordings and other material online.

Recordings made in September 2011 will be available to hear over the next few months.  In 2012, the works to be recorded are:
- Michael Norris: Volti
- Samuel Holloway: Hauptstimme
- Louise Webster: Learning to Nudge the Wind
- Michael Vinten: Sinfonietta
- Leonie Holmes: For Young Nick
- Natalie Hunt: Compass
- Andrew Perkins: Waltz-Fantasia
- Kenneth Young: Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra

Hidden Treasures

With New Zealander Bret Mackenzie winning an Oscar for his gorgeous Muppet Movie song Man or Muppet, movie-music composers are in the news!

Here’s a hidden treasure from 1985 when The Quiet Earth was released, featuring music by John Charles.  See the movie trailer on Media On Demand, check out the CD, which also includes music for the movie Iris, (which is about NZ writer Robin Hyde), and explore a wealth of other movie music on the DVD New Zealand Composers on Screen, produced by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

View Media On Demand here >

Anthony Ritchie: A Bugle Will Do  CD

Anthony’s latest CD 'A Bugle Will Do' has just been released by Atoll Records, and features Symphony No.3 and three other compositions recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under maestro Tecwyn Evans.  Winner of The Supreme Achievement Award by The Listener in 2010, Symphony No.3 is in the words of Marion Poole "…compelling, rhythmically dynamic and unashamedly honest".

View listing online >

The symphony appears on disk for the first time, along with works that the NZSO has commissioned from Anthony over a 15 year period: A Bugle Will Do, an overture dedicated to war hero Sir Charles Upham, French Overture, an evocation of life in Paris, and Revelations, an exploration of life after death.  The linking thread for all these works is emotion - the listener is taken on an exciting and moving journey, with music that delves into what it is to be human.  New Zealand's leading orchestra makes a superb job of these works, under the expert guidance of internationally acclaimed and Dunedin-born conductor, Tecwyn Evans.

This CD is one of the several Recent Releases featured on our homepage.