Music on CD

CD cover for Composer portrait: Gillian Whitehead

Composer portrait: Gillian Whitehead

Music on CD

Vocal and chamber works

Waiteata Music Press WTA003, released in 2000 as part of the series, Waiteata Collection of New Zealand 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

Cover of Outrageous Fortune showing a scene from the performance.

Outrageous Fortune

Music on CD

Recording from premiere season of the opera

Otago Commemorative Opera Trust — released in 1999

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

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Anthology of Australian Music: 32

Music on CD

Dramatic vocal music by Gillian Whitehead and Margaret Sutherland

Canberra School of Music CSM:32 — released in 1999

Performers

My work is performed by Anthea Moller (mezzo) with an ensemble conducted by Graham Hair.

Work

Hotspur

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This CD was recorded as part of a joint project of the Australian Music Centre, the National Film and Sound Archive and the Canberra School of Music. It is out of print, but you can borrow it from SOUNZ.

Anthology of Australian Music: 32 — SOUNZ

Review

Peter Grahame Woolf reviewed the CD for Musical Pointers in the UK.

Sutherland and Whitehead — Musical Pointers

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Under the Southern Cross

Music on CD

Australasian music for cello

Ode Manu 1583 — released in 1999

Performer

This CD features cellist, Alexander Ivashkin.

Works

Includes works by Brigid Bisley, Jack Body, Eve de Castro-Robinson, Chris Cree Brown, Lyell Cresswell, Jason Kaminski, John Rimmer, Peter Sculthorpe and my The Journey of Matuku Moana.

The Journey of Matuku Moana

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

Under the Southern Cross —  SOUNZ

You can hear a recording on Youtube.

The journey of Mataku Moana — video

Award

This double CD of new music for solo cello from Australia and New Zealand won the Tui (RIANZ NZ Music Award) for best classical album in 1999.

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New Zealand Choral Music

Music on CD

Works for mixed choir by New Zealand composers

Kiwi Pacific SLD108 — released in 1998

Performers

My work is performed by the Auckland University Festival Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey with soprano soloists Cathy MacDonald and Elizabeth Dickson.

Work

My Qui natus est is among 14 works on the CD.

Qui natus est

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Buy or borrow the CD from SOUNZ.

New Zealand Choral Music — SOUNZ

This music was originally released in 1972 on LP Kiwi Pacific SLD 31, which is now out of print.