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New Zealand Music For Recorders

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

Introduction | Author Index | Catalogue | Acknowledgements

Introduction

The following list contains details of works for recorder by New Zealand. Much of this information has been extracted from the on-line database from the Centre for New Zealand Music (trading as SOUNZ). However, the present list includes a number of additional works apparently not represented in the SOUNZ collection or not accessible via their on-line database system. Note that arrangments and original compositions by New Zealand composers for recorder may be found in the on-line catalogues of Roger Palmer and Neville Forsythe.

Authors

Ian McDonald
Roger Palmer
John Rimmer
John Ritchie
Patrick Shepherd
Stephen Schulz
Craig Utting
Gillian Whitehead
Felicity Williams
Ivan Zagni

Cavan Adams
Christopher Archer
Jonathen Besser
Eric Biddington
Cheryl Camm
Zillah Castle
Lyell Cresswell
Ronald Dellow
David Farquhar

Kass Finlay
Helen Fisher
Martyn Heath
Bryony Jagger
Glenda Kearn
John Lister

Catalogue

Cavan Adams

Cappuchino Break (2000); published by Orpheus Music
winner of Under 18 section of the Third National Recorder Competition, Armidale NSW, Australia, 2000.

Christopher Archer

Windows (1990)
pre-recorded; composed for Masonic Lodge Conference, Christchurch 1990; 15 minutes long; unpublished.

Johnathon Besser

Introduction for an Unfinished Sweet (1978)
soprano voice + lute + viol + recorder; 3 minutes long; unpublished.

Eric Biddington

Sonata for Treble Recorder and Piano (1993)
alto recorder (or flute) + piano; three movements; score at SOUNZ; unpublished.

Cheryl Camm

Sanctus (1987)
bass voice + 2 alto recorders; 4 minutes long; unpublished.
Seven-up (1993)
recorders + keyboards + percussion, three movements, 3 minutes, unpublished.

Zillah Vivien Castle (1911-1997)

Two Miniatures (1957)
The Blackbird's Song for soprano or contralto voice + alto or tenor recorder + keyboard; Noon for contralto voice + tenor recorder + keyboard; Schott ED 10577; Review by Anthony Rowland-Jones, Recorder News, New Series 26: 17 (1959).

Lyell Cresswell (1944-)

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Prayer to Appease the Spirit of the Land (1996)
soprano voice + recorder; setting of a poem for the Maori by Arthur Saunders; 7 minutes; unpublished; performance in the UK reviewed by ACDM in Recorder Magazine 17(1): 25-26.

Ronald Dellow

Two Pastorals (1955)
voice + 2 recorders + piano; settings of Sweet Day (George Herbert) + Joly Wat (Anon.); 1955; 6 minutes; unpublished.
Six Recorder Trios (1957)
3 recorders; arrangements of 3 English pieces + 3 16th-century pieces; 8 minutes; unpublished.
Thee, God, I Come From (1958)
treble voices + recorder consort + piano; 5 minutes; unpublished.
Prelude, Waltz and Jig (1973)
4 recorders; 10 minutes; unpublished.
Suite for four Recorders (1978)
SAAT recorders; three movements; 8 minutes; score at SOUNZ; unpublished.
The Lower Three, Suite for Recorders (1980)
recorders
8 minutes; unpublished.
Four Easy Recorder Ensembles (1982)
SSAT recorders, March + Siciliano + Tango + Jig; 8 minutes; score at SOUNZ; unpublished.
Intrada, Aubade, Chorale and Fugue (1993)
(1993), SSAATB recorders; four movements; composed for Society of Recorder Players of NZ (40th Anniversary)' unpublished.
The Trees (1992)
soprano + 2 recorders + piano; 3 minutes; unpublished
Ten Christmas Carols (1994)
4 recorders; 12 minutes; unpublished.
Hine e hine, Tama Ngakau Marie (1996)
community songs for unsion voices + recorders; 3 minutes; unpublished.
God of Nations, The Lord's my Shepherd, Greensleeves, Auld Lang Syne (1996)
community songs for unsion voices + recorders; 7 minutes; unpublished.

David Farquhar

Ariel's Song (1996)
soprano voice + alto recorder + piano; 1 minute; unpublished; performance in the UK reviewed by ACDM in Recorder Magazine 17(1): 25-26.

Kass Finlay

Willow Waltz, a collection of 9 modern recorder + percussion instrumentals for various recorder ensembles (1974 - 2005)
Willow Waltz 1, Dance, Extraordinary Ostinato, Whimsical Waltz, Motet, Feeling Melancholy, Gigue, Riding my Bike, Willow Waltz 2. Score to be published in 2006. Available on CD KM005 from Kass Music (2005). CD includes four tracks choreographed by Limbs Dance Company and taken on their national "After the Rain" tour of New Zealand.

Helen Fisher

Te Whawhai Nui O Nga Manu (1990)
childrens' voices + percussion + recorders + piano; 4 minutes; unpublished.
I Name This Place (1995)
ST recorders; commissioned by Janet McCallister & Peter McClymont for their Wedding Day; 3 minutes; unpublished.

Martyn Heath

Four Carols (1980)
unison voices + SATB recorders; arangements of traditional carols; 8 minutes; unpublished.
Four More Carols
unison voices + SATB recorders; arangements of traditional carols; 8 minutes; unpublished.

Bryony Jagger

Night Hours (1979)
song cycle for mezzo soprano voice + recorder; for Shirley Kauter; 9 minutes; unpublished.
Dreams in the Grass (1979)
alto recorder + reciter + singer/dancer; 31 minutes; unpublished.
Shorken (1980)
soprano voice + ato recorder; for Heather McDonald; 20 minutes; unpublished.
Lament for a Lost Love (1988)
unaccompanied alto recorder; 8 minutes; unpublished.
A Nursery of Pain (1980)
pieces for solo alto recorder; unpublished.

Glenda Kearn

Songs of Summer Gone (1985)
mezzo soprano voice + alto recorder + viola + percusion (vibraphone, side-drum, triangle); 5 minutes; unpublished.

John Lister

The Beat and the Sky Blues
SDABB recorders; jazzy, up tempo consort piece using 12 bar blues form; published by Roger Palmer
Waikaremoana
ATTTB recorders; richly textured, atmospheric music named after a New Zealand lake; published by Roger Palmer

Ian McDonald

Two Fools Go a Walking(1975/9)
voice + recorder, improvisational/jazz/music theatre; commissioned by Radio New Zealand for Sonic Circus; 5 minutes; published by Total Music; score at SOUNZ.

Roger Palmer

Double Quartet
D/TATT/B recorders + 3 violins + viola + cello; energetic, light music; three movements; published by Roger Palmer

John Rimmer 1939-

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Whakaari (1977)
solo alto recorder; 8 minutes; published by Catena Press, 67 Marlborough Ave, Glenfield, Auckland 1310, New Zealand; score at SOUNZ.
Gawain Suite (1984)
, SATB recorders + drum + tambourine + cello/viol or guitar; Banquet; Sing we to the Merry Companye, Courtly Dance, The Hunt; 10 minutes; Catena Press, 67 Marlborough Ave, Glenfield, Auckland 1310, New Zealand; score at SOUNZ.
Cosmic Dances (1986)
SAATB recorders, commissioned by International Recorder Festival, Auckland 1987, 8 minutes; Catena Press, 67 Marlborough Ave, Glenfield, Auckland 1310, New Zealand; Catena Press, 67 Marlborough Ave, Glenfield, Auckland 1310, New Zealand; score at SOUNZ; review by Barb van Enst in The Recorder (Australia) 14: 37-38 (1991).
Voyager (1986)
recorders + electronic sounds; 10 minutes; published by Recorder Centre, c/- Post Office, Putoi, New Zealand.
The Exotic Circle (1974)
6 recorders + 2 percussion; 6 minutes; published & recorded by Kiwi Music (SLD 38); score at SOUNZ.

John Ritchie

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Suite for Recorders (1978)
2 alto recorders; 4 minutes; unpublished.

Patrick Shepherd

Fantasia for Recorder Consort & Pianoforte
sSSATB recorders + piano; 7 minutes; score at SOUNZ.

Stephen Schulz

Bass to Alto (1985)
alto recorder + double bass; 2 minutes; unpublished.
Patetico Pastorale (1985)
alto recorder + harp + double bass; 4 minutes; unpublished.
Sonata No. 1 (1986)
alto recorder/flute + harp/piano; 4 minutes; unpublished.
Sulim/Hasapi (1988)
alto recorder/flute + harpsichord/guitar; transcription from Sumatra; 5 minutes; unpublished.
Jacobean Music (1989)
recorders + tambourine + cello; 6 minutes; unpublished.
Kacapi/Suling (1989)
alto recorder + guitar + viola + cello; Laras Pelog - Panem brama; transcription from Java; 8 minutes; unpublished; score at SOUNZ.
Swinging: Take 1 (1989); solo soprano recorder; 4 minutes; unpublished.
Suite for solo Descant Recorder (1990
soprano recorder; Dance of the Leafhoppers, Three NZ Birdies, Goose Bumps, Dance of the Cicada, Asian Flute 1, Ganzehaut, Chicken Pimples, Asian Flute 2; 15 minutes; unpublished; score at SOUNZ
Swinging: Take 3 (1989)
recorder + cello; 4 minutes; unpublished.
Swinging: Take 4 (1989)
5 recorders; 4 minutes; unpublished.
Swinging: Take 7 (1989)
SA recorders; 4 minutes; unpublished.
The Joker, the Clown and all the Others in Between (1992)
soprano recorder + string; orchestra; concerto in two movements; 13 minutes; unpublished; score at SOUNZ.

Craig Utting

Elegy (1985/1993)
alto recorder + piano; one movement - arrangement of third movement of Apocalypse (1985) where it was scored for recorder + viola + cello + percussion; 4 minutes; commissioned & published by NZ Correspondence School; score at SOUNZ.
Birds at Sea (1993)
AAA recorders; commissioned & published by New Zealand Correspondence School; ; score at SOUNZ.
Moth Blues (1993)
alto recorder + recorder trio; commissioned & published by New Zealand Correspondence School; ; score at SOUNZ.

Gillian Whitehead

At Night the Garden Was Full of Voices (1977)
SSAA or TTBB recorders; published by Price Milburn in Recorder Book 2 (ed. Steve Rosenberg).
Korimako [the New Zeland bell-bird]
soprano recorder solo; unpublished; a performance in the UK reviewed by ACDM in Recorder Magazine 17(1): 25-26.

Felicity Williams

Recorder Suite (1990)
recorders; 5 minutes; unpublished.

Ivan Zagni

In Stumona Kwae (1986)
voices + recorders + percussion (can also include keyboard & guitar or other instruments; recorders can be replaced with voices from Our Music Songbook); recorded and published by NZ Department of Education (1989); score at SOUNZ.

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Chris Adams and Roger Palmer for their support and encouragement in my exploration of NZ compositions for the recorder.