Some of the themes of this work are taken by permission from Chants populaires et danses de Bretagne arranged for violin and piano by Andre Mangeot (pub. J...

An arrangement of a Neopolitan song

This accessible, lively work in three movements for solo violin and orchestra tests the soloist fully.

"This is a radio opera (also called Ash)- bad family situations. Musically, preoccupations with the composers: Busoni, Wolpe, Wnorinen and Birtwistle."

“This number relates to an amazing and scary tract of land up in the Southern Alps full of Limestone plinths and warrens that Gillian Whitehead and I visited...

The seven short movements that make up so flamed in the air trace the genesis of the musical event that is stated in its entirety in the second movement. T...

Relentless and driving, Persistence, Colour, Hysteria, Rapture thrusts forward with a primal, barbaric energy, teetering on the verges of chaos, propelled ...

The poem is by Li Yu (李煜) [937- 978], who is a well-known Chinese poet. He was the last emperor of the Southern Tang dynasty, deposed in 975. His works focus...

At the turn of the 20th century, "nicklettes" were short films that you could see, of course, for a nickel (5 cents). They would usually only be a few second...

In writing a work for large orchestra, the main problem that presented itself was such: that for all the twentieth century techniques that deal with material...

Originally written for quintet for piano & strings (op. 44) in Eb, this arrangement is orchestrated by Matthew de Lacey Davidson.

In this work, the first movement uses two Basque melodies (one of which is a Basque lullaby whose text contains only Basque nonsense words) for the first gro...

Symphony No. 1 in 20 keys (“Letter to the World”) is a five-movement symphony for large orchestra which is the first symphony to cast the outer movements as ...

This work is not really a conventional concerto, nor a symphony, but rather, a hybrid of the two. The first movement is inspired by Egyptian Oud Music, and i...

This suite was written in 1994 for the Canterbury Wind Orchestra to celebrate New Zealand folksong, as part of a series of concerts featuring new music by em...

In the photographic essay A Journey by New Zealand Photographer Robin Morrison there is a striking image of the small church of St Gabriel at Pawarenga, Wh...

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