David Farquhar: Auras

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This disc, with fine performances from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Concord Brass and the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, explores orchestral and chamber music by David Farquhar, one of New Zealand’s most esteemed composers. “In reviewing the stages of David’s musical development and the impact of various influences one is struck by certain defining characteristics, particularly the music’s uncluttered clarity of expression, its lightness of touch, its perennial youthfulness. It is as if, for this composer, the act of composition itself is a rejuvenating pleasure and delight, and that these are the emotions most strongly communicated in his music.” (source: Jack Body, liner notes)