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MMT2058 Gareth Farr – Tangaroa: Marimba Music performed by Jeremy Fitzsimons
Throughout Polynesia, Tangaroa is the god of the sea. While Gareth Farr is probably best-known to audiences as the composer of mighty orchestral scores, one of his greatest strengths as a composer lies in the field of chamber music, particularly works for percussion. Following on from Farr’s previous five successful releases, Tangaroa features eight of his works for marimba performed by Jeremy Fitzsimons, founding member and director of Strike from 1993-2003 and performer on the RIANZ ‘Best Classical Album’ of 2004.
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TRI3004 Matthew Hindson – Modern Objects / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Naoko Miyamoto
Trust Records presents the first full-length disc devoted to the music by composer Matthew Hindson. The orchestral works of this Australian composer usually provoke wildly differing reactions – some people believe his cross-pollination of classical forms and instrumentation with elements drawn from extreme styles of contemporary popular music (techno and death metal included) is nothing short of artistic desecration, while others (a majority, it might be noted) greet his music with rapturous enthusiasm. Certainly, it would be hard to accuse him of writing in an inaccessible style!
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