Music on CD

About the recording

SOUNZfine CDs feature significant works by established New Zealand composers performed by outstanding ensembles and performers and are accompanied by notes about each composer and the work.

Volume 5 was funded by the New Zealand Composing Women’s Network and features music by women composers written between 1993 and 2001. It offers music for various ensembles including orchestra, chamber and electroacoustic taken from a range of commercial CDs and recordings by RNZ Concert. My work Tom’s Serenade for Ann Morris comes from an RNZ Concert recording of a performance by the Ensemble Philharmonia.

Work

Tom’s Serenade for Ann Morris

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The CD is no longer available for distribution, but can be borrowed from SOUNZ.

SOUNZfine Volume 5 — SOUNZ

Performers

My works included on this CD are performed by Ramonda Te Maiharoa Taleni (soprano) and Ana Good (mezzo).

Works

This CD tells the legend of the wedge-tailed eagle and Te Maiharoa’s return to Te Ao Marama. It includes 3 of my works.

E rewa mai, e rā

Te Mauri o te Awa

Nau mai e te o marama (also known as the ‘Waitaha’ aria)

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Only a few copies of the CD were produced. There is a copy in the National Library.

Pakiwaitara o te Pouakai; Te heke o te Maiharoa — National Library

Performers

In 2004 I was invited to present a concert of my music in Jakarta. Tūhonohono, a flexible group of 7 Māori and Pākehā musicians, was formed for that occasion. ‘Tūhonohono’ translates as ‘to bring together, to weave, to join, to support’, hence ‘weaving together the strands of Māori and European musical traditions.’

The musicians are Ben Hoadley (bassoon), Ingrid Culliford (flute), Alexa Still (flute), Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro), Ashley Brown (cello) Ramonda Te Maiharoa Taleni (mezzo-soprano) and Aroha Yates-Smith (kaikaranga).

Works

Aria from Outrageous Fortune

Hineraukatauri

Hinetekakara

Lullaby for Matthew

Naumai e te ao marama

Ngā hā o neherā

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Tūhonohono — SOUNZ

Performers

The CD features British ensemble, Lontano conducted by Odaline de al Martinez.

Works

Ahotu (O Matenga)

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Buy the CD from all good music stores or listen to it on Apple Music.

New Zealand Women Composers — Apple Music

Performers

New Zealand String Quartet, David Guerin (piano), Bridget Douglas (flute), Rachel Thomson (piano), Douglas Mews (organ), Scilla Askew (soprano), and Sings Harry Vocal Ensemble

Works

Moon, Tides and Shoreline

Fantasia on three notes

Taurangi

Requiem

Missa Brevis

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The CD is available from Waiteata, SOUNZ and all good record stores.

Composer portrait: Gillian Whitehead — Waiteata

Review

Peter Grahame Woolf reviewed the CD for Musical Pointers

Gillian Whitehead composer portrait — Musical Pointers

Performers

The cast was led by Deborah Wai Kapohe (soprano), Robert Wiremu and Te Oti Rakena (baritones) and Tungia Baker (kuia) with an ensemble conducted by Michael Joel and taonga pūoro played by Richard Nunns.

Work

Outrageous Fortune

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Buy or borrow the CD from SOUNZ.

Outrageous Fortune — SOUNZ