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DVDs

In 2020 Creative New Zealand supported the recording of two DVDs capturing three programmes of piano & poetry.
​The performances were recorded at St. Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, on a Steinway piano. 

DVD 1 - Programme 1

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​DVD 1 ​(54 minutes)
​music by: JS Bach (Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring), Haydn (1st mvt. of Sonata no.38), Beethoven (1st mvt. of Moonlight Sonata), Chopin (Grande Valse Brillante), Grieg (Wedding Day at Troldhaugen), Sinding (Rustle of Spring), Joplin (The Entertainer), Decio (Ragged Time) and Gershwin (Summertime)

poems by: Wordsworth (Daffodils), Leigh Hunt (Abou Ben Adhem), WB Yeats (The Song of Wandering Aengus) and Ingrid Prosser (Winter Stars & Winter Peace).

price: $30

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Programme 1 - A mixture of classical and lighter piano music with details of the lives of some of the composers, interspersed with well-known, and original poetry performed by performance poet Ingrid Prosser. Includes the inaugural recording of Ragged Time by Colin Decio, four piano rags composed in deference to Scott Joplin.
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DVD 2 Programmes 2 & 3

DVD 2 (60 + 56 mins)
Programmes 2 and 3 - The music begins in the Renaissance and finishes in the 21st century, with music composed by Colin. The poetry, performed by performance poet Ingrid Prosser, includes well-known classics and lesser known poems.

price: $50

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Programme 2
music by: Byrd, Haydn, Debussy (La Cathedral Engloutie), Satie (Gnossiennes I - III), Ravel, Rakhmaninov (Prelude in D); plus Moonlight Serenade & As Time Goes By.

poems by: Shakespeare (Sonnet no.18), Ingrid Prosser (The Grey Sentinels), Robert Frost & WB Yeats (The Lake Isle of Innisfree).

Programme 3
music by: JS Bach, Haydn, Beethoven (Adagio mvt. Pathetique Sonata), Holst, Debussy (Clair de Lune), Poulenc and Decio (Prelude for Anne Frank and Miniatures).

poems by: EE Cummings, Ingrid Prosser (Tewkesbury, Kereru and White Bird), Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken), Rudyard Kipling (The Way Through the Woods), William Blake, Shakespeare and WB Yeats.
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