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for score sample in pdf (pages 1-4)
click below to see the complete performance by 175 East in Christchurch, October 2008
year: 2002
instrumentation:
flute, clarinet and guitar
duration:
10'
premiered: Nelson
Composers Workshop 2002
concert premiere: ACL Forum, Seoul, Korea 2003
other performances (each with Dylan Lardelli, guitar): Musikhochschule
Lübeck 2006; Christchurch and Auckland with 175
East 2008; Melbourne 2012 with Kim Tan (fl) and Aviva Endean (cl)
recording: Kirsten Eade (fl), Andrew Uren (cl), Dylan Lardelli (gt), Ewan Clark (cond), Adam Concert Room; engineer: Michael Parsons
programme
note: Scored for guitar, flute and B-flat clarinet,
vers libre
(translating "free verse", though with allusions to
"towards something free") threads through a succession of musical landscapes,
punctuated by colouristic events and frequent upheavals in pulse (governed
by metric modulations).
The work was
premiered at the Nelson Composers' Workshop by Dylan Lardelli (guitar),
Kirstin Eade (flute), Andrew Uren (clarinet) and Ewan Clark (conductor)
in July 2002 and recorded later that month by the same musicians at Victoria
University's Adam Concert Room. It received its concert premiere by Dylan
Lardelli (gt.), Hiyeun Chun (fl.) and Younggun Lee (cl.) at the 2003 ACL
Forum in Seoul, Korea (pictured, above, in rehearsal). Performances in Germany,
Christchurch and Auckland have followed, with Dylan Lardelli as guitarist
on each occasion.
...vers libre... is published by Waiteata
Press (left) and features on a CD (right) of works by emerging New Zealand
composers.