By:

• Ross Harris

Duration:

08' 00" (can vary)

Instrumentation:

violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello

Contents:

one movement

Availability

• This work has 3 scores and 2 recordings

Programme Note

The title refers to the 25th Variation of the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. When I heard the New Zealand String Quartet perform the Goldberg Variations during their Bach and Mendelssohn series in 2007, I had a strong desire to pay my respects to the beauty and richness of the music and to write another work for the wonderful New Zealand String Quartet. I set about doing this by taking the music of the 25th Variation and using it as the basis of a single movement for string quartet. The work begins with canonic additions to the original and evolves from there.

Variation 25 was written while I was the Jack Richards/Creative New Zealand Composer in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music in 2008.

Commissioned:

Written while the composer was in residence at the New Zealand School of Music 2007-8

Difficulty:

Advanced

Performance History

	06 Feb 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet at the Nelson Cathedral, Nelson
		New Zealand String Quartet
	03 Jun 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet at St James Church, Lower Hutt
		New Zealand String Quartet
	27 Jul 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet in Ottawa, Canada
		New Zealand String Quartet
	13 Nov 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet
		New Zealand String Quartet

Events

	04 Mar 2012	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet at Wellington Town Hall, presented by the 2012 International Arts Festival
		New Zealand String Quartet