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Ritchie: Octopus cover
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ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Octopus
Alexa Still (flute) / The Nevine String Quartet / Amici Ensemble
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ]
It is unusual to have one composers' works comprise an entire programme and probably even harder to pull it off while keeping the audience's attention. (Auckland Chamber Orchestra Concert)
Intimate Landscapes cover
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ELGAR / TAFFANEL / FAURE / WOODALL / HARTY / BOWEN / etc
Intimate Landscapes
Anda Hollins (flute) Richard Mapp (piano)
[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 18/Nov/2002 ]
Guest Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Remember Parihaka cover
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ANTHONY RITCHIE
Remember Parihaka
Alexa Still (flute) Katherine Hebley (cello) Andrew Uren (bass clarinet) Sam Hunt (poet) / Auckland Chamber Orchestra / Peter Scholes
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ]
For their debut disc ACO and Music Director Scholes have recorded four of Anthony Ritchie's smaller-scale orchestral works.
The Best of (Incls The Wasps Overture & Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis) cover
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VAUGHAN WILLAIMS
The Best of (Incls The Wasps Overture & Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis)
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) David Greed (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony / English Northern Philharmonia / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / etc
[ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ]
One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams went some way towards creating a specifically English musical idiom, influenced by his interest in folk-song yet underpinned by a personal vision and language.
Chamber Music for Friends (Including the Piano Trio & Three Pieces for cello and piano) cover
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ERIC BIDDINGTON
Chamber Music for Friends (Including the Piano Trio & Three Pieces for cello and piano)
Carolyn Scholes (violin) / Mark Hobson (alto saxophone/clarinet) / Greg McMillan-Perry (oboe) / Nicola Ansley (alto saxophone) / Maurice Till (piano)
[ Ode Records / CD - released 18/Jan/2006 ]
Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and combined this with study at the University of Canterbury.
Piano Concertos nos 1 & 2 cover
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos nos 1 & 2
Diedre Irons (piano) Christchurch Symphony / Marc Taddei
[ Trust / CD - released 8/Dec/2003 ]
Diedre Irons was born in Winnipeg, Canada. A child prodigy, she made her first solo appearance with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve playing Schumann's Piano Concerto.
Pacific 3-2-1-Zero (recorded live in 1986) cover
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FROM SCRATCH
Pacific 3-2-1-Zero (recorded live in 1986)
From Scratch / Don McGlashan
[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 6/Dec/2001 ]
Recorded live at Auckland Girls Grammar , June 2nd, 1986. "A work of protest against nuclear testing and waste dumping in Oceania"
Ipu cover
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Gillian Whitehead
Ipu
[ Rattle Records / CD ]
Ipu is a poetic tale of love based on a story by Tungia Baker (translated into Maori by Wena Tait). Literally, an ipu is a gourd used to carry food and goods. Accordingly, ipu korero denotes a storyteller, someone who 'carries' stories. The ipu is...
Paine: Waitemata Reverie, New Zealand Guitar Music, Vol. 3 cover
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BRUCE PAINE
Paine: Waitemata Reverie, New Zealand Guitar Music, Vol. 3
Gunter Herbig (guitar)
[ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ]
Classical guitar music has flourished in New Zealand in recent years, and Bruce Paine, among the country's leading composers for the instrument, is one of the most imaginative and original. This album charts the course of his writing from one of his...
Anake & other works cover
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LYELL CRESSWELL
Anake & other works
The Hebrides Ensemble
[ NMC / CD - released 8/Jun/2005 ]
"A thrilling disc... all solid pieces, worth anyone's ear." The Times 2002
Cello For Africa cover
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PETER KLATZOW / HANS HUYSSEN
Cello For Africa
Heleen du Plessis (cello)
[ Ode Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ]
Cello for Africa saw Heleen du Plessis (South African cellist and Williams Evans Executant lecturer for cello at the University of Otago, member of the TriOtago piano trio and principal cellist of the Southern Sinfonia) set out on a journey of...
British Music for Viola and Orchestra cover
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HOWELLS / WALTON / BOWEN
British Music for Viola and Orchestra
Helen Callus (viola) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei
[ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ]
"Helen Callus plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation" Gramophone
Symphony, "Humen 1839" / The Rhyme of Taigu / The Enlightened cover
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LONG ZHOU / YI CHEN
Symphony, "Humen 1839" / The Rhyme of Taigu / The Enlightened
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang
[ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/2015 ]
"This is thrilling, cinematic music that, although challenging at times, is always gripping." The Kansas City Star
Toru: chamber music cover
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MARTIN LODGE
Toru: chamber music
James Tennant, Richard Nunns, Peter Scholes, William Dowdall, Edward King, Jeremy Mayall, etc
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ]
Brilliantly performed chamber works by Martin Lodge
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music cover
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music
Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker (sopranos) / Varsity Voices / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
[ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ]
"The self-contained numbers...may be familiar items, but on disc...you discover and enjoy so much more: the flashes of instrumental colour, the exquisite little tone paintings that intersperse or accompany the spoken text...Judd's New Zealand and...
Legends cover
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Jud Arthur with The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Legends
[ JA / CD - released 5/Nov/2010 ]
New Zealand opera singer performs world's most memorable show tunes
Waiata cover
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TRADITIONAL
Waiata
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
[ Sony / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ]
In 1999 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa released 'Maori Songs', her second collection of Maori folk songs and prayers. That project was initiated by prominent NZ pianist/arranger Carl Doy, who has 13 years later created the follow up album 'Waiata'.
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) cover
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KIRI te KANAWA
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Stephen Barlow
[ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ]
The Portrait Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. In this exciting portrait, Kiri Te Kanawa talks about...
The Very Best of Shostakovich cover
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich
Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin)
[ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ]
"As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006)
Concerti By Benda, Pisendal, Torelli cover
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BENDA / PISENDAL / TORELLI
Concerti By Benda, Pisendal, Torelli
Lara Hall (baroque violin) / NZ Barok, Peter Walls
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 25/May/2018 ]
This CD is the culmination of a long-held desire to record little-known 18th century concerti. Players' parts were prepared for this project from digital copies of manuscripts in the Schank II Collection (Dresden) including Pisendel's scores of his...