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Mainly New Zealand composers with Wild Music (Kenneth Young, William Southgate et al)
Landscapes:01 Douglas Lilburn: Drysdale Overture [9'56]02 Lyell Creswell: Dancing on a Volcano [12'27]03 Maria Grenfell: Stealing Tutunui [8'33]04 David Hamilton: Elysian Fields [12'05]05 Martin Lodge: Hinterland [11'07]06 Ross Harris: …of memory… [14'15]07 Anthony Ritchie: Yet Another Poem of Spring [2'38]New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth YoungMorrison Music Trust MMT2037 [recorded July 2001; CD issued 2001][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineer: Keith Warren; Producer: Murray KhouriDouglas Lilburn - Orchestral Music:01 Festival Overture [8'26]02 A Song of Islands [16'15]03 - 07 Suite for Orchestra [16'00]08 A Birthday Offering [12'15]09 Drysdale Overture [9'37]New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by William SouthgateContinuum CCD1076 [recorded 1995; CD issued 1996][digital-download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Lower Hutt Town Hall, Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineer: unknown; Producer: Murray KhouriBeautiful performances with really excellent recorded sound and including the only currently available recording of the surprisingly overlooked, […]
2022-02-25 00:00:00
Virgil Thomson:01. - 03. Symphony No. 2 (1931-41) [16'26]04. - 07. Symphony No. 3 (1972) [16'27]08. Pilgrims and Pioneers (1964) [9'42]09. - 12. Symphony on a Hymn Tune (1928) [21'38]New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by James SedaresNaxos 8.559022 [recorded November 1998; CD issued 1999][digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venue: Michael Fowler Centre, WellingtonRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleyDownload from Mega.
2021-02-23 00:30:00
Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works - James Judd
Douglas Lilburn:01. Aotearoa. Overture [8'09]02. A Birthday Offering [11'38]03. Drysdale Overture [10'34]04. Forest. Tone Poem [15.54]05. A Song of Islands. Tone Poem [16.40]06. Festival Overture [8'20]07. Processional Fanfare [4'01] New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Judd Naxos 8.557697 [recorded November 2004; CD/digital download releases 2006] [digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venue: Michael Fowler Centre, WellingtonRecording engineer: Paul McGlashan; Producer: Wayne Laird Douglas Lilburn was New Zealand's first world-renowned composer and remains its best known; born in 1915 and died in 2001. The compositions here date from his first major orchestral work, the Drysdale Overture from 1937, through to the Processional Fanfare from 1961. Later in life he turned his attentions from the tonal music heard here to electro-acoustic composition. Lilburn founded the Electronic Music Studio at Victoria University in Wellington in 1966 and was its Director until 1979. Little of the works he composed there during […]
2021-01-22 14:10:17
Chemin des Dames: premiere recording of New Zealand composer Gareth Farr's cello concerto, written in memory of his great-uncles killed in the First World War
[…] it doesn't quite hit the spot for me. Given the vast competition in this work, I had wondered whether finding another way through the programme might have been better so that Hurtaud could have given us a lesser known work. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1919) [29:51]Gareth Farr (born 1968) - Cello Concerto: Chemin des Dames (2017) [29:10]Sébastien Hurtaud (cello)New Zealand Symphony OrchestraBenjamin Northey (conductor)Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, 16-18 April 2019RUBICON RCD1047 [59:04] Available from Amazon. The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Influence at Court: the sacred music of Pelham Humfrey explored in a new disc from the choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal on Delphian - CD review A snapshot […]
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