Programme 1: 22 October 2013

Resound Broadcasts 2013 - Programme One

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Patrick Shepherd: Glittering Fragments

Patrick Shepherd is passionate about new music, music education, and technology; and has called New Zealand home since moving here from the UK in 1991.

His string quartet Glittering Fragments was inspired by a poem of the same name, by the Japanese poet Hara Tamiki. It paints a post-apocalyptic landscape. Shepherd describes it as mirroring Tamiki’s poem, “with flashes of activity and then opaque harmonies ‘burning red, then dulled.”

It was finished in 1994 and premiered by the New Zealand String Quartet, to whom it’s dedicated.  This recording is from a concert in the Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, in 1995.
 

David Griffiths: Five Frozen Pieces

David Griffiths was born in Auckland in 1950, and went on to study composition at the University of Auckland and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He’s also known as a baritone, with a career both on the opera stage and the recital hall.

This recording features pianist Sarah Watkins, and was recorded in the Music Theatre at the University of Auckland last year. It was part of an initiative to re-record a selection of works of particular artistic merit, specifically for the Resound project.
 

Karlo Margetic: Xylophone Concerto

Karlo Margetic studied at the New Zealand School of Music, and recently won the 2013 SOUNZ Contemporary Award at the APRA Silver Scrolls.  Kenneth Young introduces Margetic’s Xylophone Concerto below, and uncovers some amusing details about the work's creation.

The Xylophone Concerto is performed here by soloist Brent Stewart, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Benjamin Northey. It’s from the 2009 NZSO SOUNZ readings, where the orchestra rehearsed and recorded the work.