new zealand composers

  • Remember Parihaka

    Remember Parihaka

    Auckland Chamber Orchestra cond. Peter Scholes

    For their debut disc ACO and Music Director Scholes have recorded four of Anthony Ritchie’s smaller-scale orchestral works.

    ACD 129 : buy cd | more info

  • Ahi

    Ahi

    The Ogen Trio
    with Peter Scholes and David Griffiths

    Dynamic performances of recent NZ works for piano trio.

    "Sublime and haunting" William Dart, NZ Herald.

    ACD 108 : buy cd | more info

  • The Prodigal Child

    Michael Williams, Alan Riach

    Michael Williams' chamber opera, with libretto by Alan Riach, explores three souls in crisis - the setting is New Zealand but the story is universal.

    ACD 306 : buy cd | more info

  • Complete Electro Acoustic Works

    Complete Electro Acoustic Works

    Douglas Lilburn

    Lilburn turned wholly to the creation of electronic works because he felt they would more accurately portray New Zealand in its own right. 4 disc set includes includes DVD...

    ACD 404 : buy cd | more info

  • The Islands

    The Islands

    Christopher Blake

    First available recording of Blake's epic symphony "The Islands ", plus three dramatic tone poems...

    ACD 403 : buy cd | more info

  • Viola Aotearoa

    Viola Aotearoa

    Tim Deighton

    Virtuoso presentations of modern NZ repertoire for viola, including three previously unrecorded works...

    ACD 202 : buy cd | more info

  • Pacific 3-2-1-Zero

    PACIFIC 3-2-1-ZERO

    From Scratch

    Parts 1 & 2 Live. An anti-nuclear performance recorded live June 1986...

    ACD 301 : buy cd | more info

  • A Chaos of Delight

    A Chaos of Delight

    Eve de Castro Robinson

    Various Artists...

    A 9806 : buy cd | more info

  • Fanfares for a New Millenium

    Fanfares for a New Millenium

    Auckland Philharmonia

    11 fanfares for the 21st Century: Blake, de Castro-Robinson, Rimmer, Palmer, Psathas, Meridan-Skipp, Elmsly, Buchanan, Cree Brown, Dadson, Hamilton...

    ACD 100 : buy cd | more info

  • Puhake ki te rangi

    Gillian Whitehead
    with Richard Nunns taonga puoro

    Music for European and Maori traditional instruments.

    ACD 107: buy cd | more info

  • Piano Preludes

    Piano Preludes

    Anthony Ritche

    Premier recording of Ritchie’s 24 Piano Preludes, brilliantly performed by Sharon Vogan.

    ACD 504 : buy cd | more info

  • TAKU WANA / THE WHEEL TURNS

    TAKU WANA / THE WHEEL TURNS

    Helen Fisher

    Two song cycles, with words by Lauris Edmond and Wi Kuki Kaa...

    ACD 203 : buy cd | more info

  • You Got Your Wish

    YOU GOT YOUR WISH

    Jonathan Besser & Bravura

    New York-born, composer/pianist Jonathan Besser, offers here his take on Tango...

    ACD 302 : buy cd | more info

  • Mr Darwin's Dances

    Mr Darwin's Dances

    Jonathan Besser

    "You can smell the brine on the swaggering shanties, fiddle tunes and hornpipes"...

    ACD 200 : buy cd | more info

  • Other Echoes

    Other Echoes

    Eve de Castro Robinson

    Auckland Philharmonia & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra...

    ACD 300 : buy cd | more info

  • Points in a Changing Circle

    Points in a Changing Circle

    Grant Cooper / Concord Brass

    Electro/Acoustic music for brass: Lilburn, Elmsly, Harris, Rimmer. With support from The Lilburn Trust...

    ACD 300 : buy cd | more info

  • Kenneth Young Symphony

    Kenneth Young Symphony

    NZSO

    (ATOLL/TRUST PRODUCTION)
    " ...arguably the most exciting New Zealand symphony I've heard."...

    ACD 300 : buy cd | more info