Notes From a Journey - New Zealand String Quartet

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Cover painting: Untitled Waka, Simon Kaan

Image reproduced courtesy of the artist and Warwick Henderson Gallery.


Notes From a Journey - New Zealand String Quartet

Frame taken from video shot during the recording of this CD, Adam Concert Room, Wellington, November 2009.

Notes From a Journey
New Zealand String Quartet

Winner Best Classical Album at Vodafone NZ Music Awards 2011

A diverse and fascinating collection of works for string quartet by NZ composers.

“This celebration of the inspirational symbiosis that these four musicians share with our composer community has much going for it. If one could venture a superlative for the word immaculate, then this production would deserve it; as far as visual presentation is concerned, Simon Kaan's “Untitled Waka” on the cover could not be bettered for cool elegance.”
William Dart, NZ Herald

New Zealand String Quartet

Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman, Rolf Gjelsten, Gillian Ansell.
1
Abhisheka (1996)
John Psathas
10:00
2
Variation 25 (2008)
Ross Harris
10:40
 
3-5
Three Transcriptions (1994)
Jack Body

3. Long Gi Yi (China)

4. Ramandriana (Madagascar)

5. Ratschenitsa (Bulgaria)
10:30
 

2:23

5:05

2:48
6-9
Exitus (2009)
Michael Norris

6. Quidlivun The Land of the Moon

7. Xibalbá The Place of Fear

8. Niflheim The House of Mists

9. Oka Lusa Hacha Black Water River
20:50
 

5:08

5:05

5:25

5:13
8
He Poroporoaki A farewell (2008)
Gareth Farr, Richard Nunns
6:00
  Total duration 58:48