Where Fairburn Walked

 
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JENNY MCLEOD / GILLIAN WHITEHEAD / JOHN PSATHAS / GARETH FARR et al
Where Fairburn Walked
Jian Liu (piano)

[ Rattle Records / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 27 June 2024

Pianist Jian Liu's WHERE FAIRBURN WALKED is a collection of illustrative solo piano works by twenty-four New Zealand composers from the past century.

Featuring historical and contemporary works for solo piano by a range of New Zealand composers that includes, among others, Jenny McLeod, Gillian Whitehead, John Psathas, Claire Cowan, Kenneth Young, Gareth Farr, David Hamilton, Anthony Ritchie, John Elmsly, Craig Utting, Dorothy Buchanan, Michael Williams, and Ernest Jenner.

This collection features all seventy-eight works composed by twenty-four of New Zealand's foremost composers.

Tracks:

1. Sleigh Ride
2. Paper Dragonfly
3. Fragment
4. Rotorua (Boiling Mud Pools)
5. An Idyll
6. Nocturne
7. Clouds Over Aoraki
8. Mysterious Whirly Square Dance
9. Outlines Through Rising Mist
10. Homage to Ravel
11. Simple Piano Pieces No. 1 for Gabe
12. Simple Piano Pieces No. 2 for Amelia
13. Foxglove Bells
14. What a Silly Joke
15. Lullaby for Matthew
16. Covenant
17. Fragment
18. Love Songs - For Charlotte (to Larae Parry)
19. Love Songs - For Adelaide (to Sylvia Rand)
20. Love Songs - For For Salesi (to Salesi Le'ota)
21. Caroline Bay Suite No. 1 Sunrise over the bay
22. Caroline Bay Suite No. 2 Children playing
23. Caroline Bay Suite No. 3 Running on the beach
24. Caroline Bay Suite No. 4 Carnival
25. Birthday Music - Rosebud
26. Birthday Music - Janaya
27. Birthday Music - Morgan
28. Birthday Music - Anna
29. Six Little Preludes I.
30. Six Little Preludes II.
31. Six Little Preludes III.
32. Six Little Preludes IV.
33. Six Little Preludes V.
34. Six Little Preludes VI.
35. Elusive Dream
36. Arteria Meridionale No. 2
37. Three Inventions No. 1
38. Three Inventions No. 2
39. Three Inventions No. 3
40. Nga Manu - Tahi. Sitting on the eggs
41. Nga Manu - Rua. Hatching of the eggs
42. Nga Manu - Toru. Chicks feeding furiously
43. Nga Manu - Wha. Fledglings getting a grip on things
44. Nga Manu - Rima. Flying away, stumbling, into the wide world
45. Nga Manu - Ono. The runt of the family struggles to get away
46. Nocturne
47. Olveston Suite I. Great Hall
48. Olveston Suite II. Kitchen and Scullery
49. Olveston Suite III. Dining Room
50. Olveston Suite IV. Writing Room, Edwardian Room
51. Olveston Suite V. Billiard Room, Persian Room
52. Olveston Suite VI. Great Hall (return)
53. Tone Clock I.
54. Tone Clock X.
55. Tone Clock XX. Te Kapowai (Dragonfly)
56. Tone Clock XXIII. Pyramids, Symmetries, Crevice of Sleep 04:43
57. Six Preludes No. 2 (In memory of Frederick Chopin)
58. Six Preludes No. 8
59. Six Preludes No. 7
60. Six Preludes No. 15
61. Six Preludes No. 24 (For my mother)
62.
Six Preludes No. 21
63. Oriori (Variations on Hine e Hine)
64. Sleeper
65. The Horizon from Owhiro Bay
66. Arapatiki
67. Four Short Concert Studies I. 01:49
68. Four Short Concert Studies II. Diabolus
69. Four Short Concert Studies III.
70. Four Short Concert Studies IV.
71. Three Short Pieces I. Raindrops on a misty pond
72. Three Short Pieces II. Moths in the light
73. Three Short Pieces III. Galaxy
74. Shadow Hands (or John Chen)
75. Three Pieces I. Prelude 03:45
76. Three Pieces II. Canzonetta
77. Three Pieces III. Rerere
78. Jettatura