| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file) |
| Contents |
Ruaumoko (27:36) -- Orakau (13:28) -- Rangitoto (6:00) -- Te Papa (9:52) -- Beowulf (9:50) |
| Notes |
Orchestral music by New Zealand composer, Gareth Farr |
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Orakau (2nd work) is a musical setting of the poem, Dead leaves of Orakau, by Leon Coad (1912-1967). Words also printed as text in container insert |
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Te Papa (4th work) is based on the anonymously-written mid-nineteenth century poem, Charm. Words in English and Māori also printed as text in container insert |
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Beowulf (5th work) is inspired by the event described in the Old English epic poem where the hero, Beowulf, slays a fearsome underwater creature, mother of the monster Grendel |
| Credits |
Gareth Farr, producer |
| Performer |
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ; Conal Coad, bass (2nd work) ; Deborah Wai Kapohe (4th work) ; Richard Greager, tenor (4th work) ; Mere Boynton (4th work) ; Kenneth Young, conductor |
| Event |
Recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, N.Z., 29-31 May 2003, the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Wellington, N.Z., 15 Nov. 2003, and in the Sounds Unlimited Studio, Wellington, 1 Aug. 2003 and 22 April 2004 |
| Notes |
Hard copy version record |
| Subject |
Coad, Leon, 1912-1967 -- Musical settings
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| SUBJECT |
Beowulf -- Musical settings
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Beowulf fast |
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Orchestral music.
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Māori (New Zealand people) -- Music
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Māori (New Zealand people)
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Orchestral music
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Streaming audio
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Music
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Musical settings
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Musical settings.
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Music.
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Mises en musique.
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Musique.
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Streaming audio
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| Author |
Coad, Conal
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Kapohe, Deborah Wai
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Greager, Richard
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Boynton, Mere
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Young, Kenneth, 1955-
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Coad, Leon, 1912-1967.
Dead leaves of Orakau
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Farr, Gareth, 1968-
Ruaumoko
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Farr, Gareth, 1968-
Orakau
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Farr, Gareth, 1968-
Rangitoto
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Farr, Gareth, 1968-
Te Papa
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Farr, Gareth, 1968-
Beowulf
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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