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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
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1990; 15 minutes long; unpublished.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unpublished.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alto recorder (or flute) + piano; three movements; score at SOUNZ; unpublished.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bass voice + 2 alto recorders; 4 minutes long; unpublished.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unpublished.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-)
WWW Page
- 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Saunders; 7 minutes; unpublished; performance in the UK reviewed by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unpublished.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pieces; 8 minutes; unpublished.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unpublished.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4 recorders; 10 minutes; unpublished.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-
WWW Page
- 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
WWW Page
- 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.

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