Music on CD

Performers

New Zealand String Quartet (NZSQ): Helene Pohl (first violin), Monique Lapins (second violin), Gillian Ansell (viola) and Rolf Gjesten (cello).

Work

Poroporoaki

Get the recording

Buy the CD from all good record stores or from the NZSQ. It is also on Spotify and Apple Music.

Notes from a Journey II — NZSQ

Award

The NZSQ won the Tūī for best classical artist at the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards for Notes from a Journey II.

2024 Tūī Award winners — AMA

Performers

This double CD features Robert Ashworth (viola) and Sarah Watkins (piano).

Work

Moonstone

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Buy the CD from all good record stores, or buy the digital version from Bandcamp or SOUNZ.

Moonstone — Bandcamp

Award

Moonstone won the 2022 Classical Album of the Year at the Aotearoa New Zealand Music Awards.

Aotearoa Music Awards: history

Performers

All the works on this album are performed by Bridget Douglas (flutes) and Alistair Fraser (taonga pūoro).

Work

Amongst the 6 works on this recording is my Hineraukatauri.

Hineraukatauri

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Buy the limited edition CD from all good record stores, or buy the digital version from Bandcamp or SOUNZ.

Silver Stone Wood Bone — Bandcamp

Review

Elizabeth Kerr has reviewed this album.

Music of Aotearoa — Five Lines

Award

Silver stone wood bone was a finalist for the 2022 Classical Album of the Year at the Aotearoa New Zealand Music Awards.

Aotearoa Music Awards: history

Performers

Performed by NZTrio and the traditional Cambodian ensemble Trey So, these 4 works were the result of a collaborative project designed by Jack Body and called O Cambodia.

Work

The river flows on …

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Buy or borrow the CD from SOUNZ.

O Cambodia — SOUNZ

Performers

The works on this album are performed by Andrew Beer (violin) and Sarah Watkins (piano).

Work

Tōrua

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Buy CD from all good record stores, or buy the digital version from Bandcamp or SOUNZ.

11 Frames — Bandcamp

Award

This CD won the award for Best Classical Album at the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards.

Aotearoa Music Awards: history

Performers

This CD was a collaboration with American Prague-based pianist Patricia Goodson, the Stamic Quartet, Jindrich Pazdera (violin) and Vilém Veverka (oboe).

Works

This CD contains several substantial works that are very close to my heart. The 8 works span my compositional career from 1963 to 2014.

Clouds over Mata-au

Three improvisations for solo oboe (1963)

Arapātiki

Tom’s serenade for Ann Morris

Tūmanako — journey through an unknown landscape

No stars, not even clouds

Tōrua

Shadows cross the water (2014)

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Buy the CD from all good record stores, or buy the digital version from Bandcamp or SOUNZ.

Shadows crossing water — Bandcamp

Review

Geoff Adams reviewed the CD for the Otago Daily Times.

The classics: May 21 — ODT