New Zealand's most popular piece of classical music this year is Gallipoli to the Somme by New Zealand composer Anthony Ritchie.
This is the first time a New Zealand composition has won Settling The Score.
The piece traces the experiences of WWI soldier Alexander Aitken, from the Otago Battalion in New Zealand, his arrival in Gallipoli, his experience of Christmas 1915, his preparation for battle at the Somme, the loss of his comrades, and encounters with the German army. The sound of his solo violin, which he took with him through the war, also pervades the piece. The composition was commissioned by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra.
People who voted for Anthony Ritchie's oratorio said:
"Gallipoli to the Somme was the most moving piece of music I have ever sung. I was even more overcome when I visited [the] Gallipoli [exhibition] at Te Papa and discovered the words of the last piece were written on the wall as you left the exhibit. I cried, and cried and cried as I left that day."
"I have been to 4 performances of this work, two in NZ and two in UK. Each has brought the both the choir and audience to tears."
"This music is incredible - so moving and evocative of this time. I have sung this twice in Dunedin with the City Choir Dunedin and the DSO. This piece is a highlight of my 40 plus years of singing and deserves to be heard many many times world wide."
Here are the Top 100 works as voted for by New Zealander's in Settling The Score 2020
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4. ELGAR: Enigma Variations (including Nimrod & Lux Aeterna) |
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5. K JENKINS: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (Including the Benedictus) |
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8. STRAUSS, RICHARD: Four Last Songs |
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9. BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Chora (Ode to Joy) |
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13. DVORAK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (including Largo, 'Goin' Home') |
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17. ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus |
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19. HANDEL: Messiah (including the Hallelujah Chorus and many, many more) |
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20. HOLST: The Planets Suite (including Jupiter, Mars, Venus, etc...) |
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23. BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 |
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29. BACH: Mass in B minor |
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31. ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor |
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32. GORECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs |
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35. GRIEG: Peer Gynt (including Morning Mood and Hall of the Mountain King) |
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38. LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture (NZ) |
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39. BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia |
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40. BARBER: Adagio for Strings (and choral version, Agnus Dei) |
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41. ARTLEY, CHRIS: O Magnum Mysterium (NZ) |
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42. BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight |
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46. RAVEL: Boléro |
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47. SATIE: Gymnopédies |
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48. MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness |
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49. JENNINGS: Bat/The Leading Violinist (NZ) |
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52. MOZART: Requiem in D minor K626 (including the Lacrimosa and Dies Irae) |
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54. BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund |
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55. SIBELIUS: Karelia suite (including Alla Marcia) |
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57. MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (including The Great Gates of Kiev) |
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58. MORRICONE: Gabriel's Oboe, from The Mission |
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62. SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast (The Moldau) |
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65. JENNINGS: Magnificat (NZ) |
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67. MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Fingal's Cave |
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68. BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 |
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72. BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy Op 46 |
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73. DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque |
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76. BRUCH: Kol Nidrei |
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77. CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 |
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81. LILBURN: Four Canzonas (NZ) |
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82. SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 |
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83. TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture |
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85. VERDI: Requiem |
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87. FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon (NZ) |
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90. FAURE: Pavane |
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92. KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Suite (including the adagio) |
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93. DELIBES: Flower Duet, from Lakmé |
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94. PURCELL: Dido's Lament from Dido & Aeneas |
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96. HANDEL: Eternal Source of Light Divine |
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99. VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco |
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100. COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man |
