Call Of The Huia

Michael Vinten talks to Clarissa Dunn about his project to rediscover early New Zealand Art Songs. Audio

Part One of a concert presenting rediscovered New Zealand Art Songs. Audio

Part Two of a concert presenting rediscovered New Zealand Art Songs. Audio

"Music should in sounds convey what dying lovers dare not say". Video, Audio

"Now as twilight shades are falling, Lay thee down to sleep my child". Video, Audio

"O night, how I love and adore thee, Why dost thou so short a time stay; My sorrows come crowding back o'er me, When the shades of the night pass away". Video, Audio

"Once the days were sad and lonely, 'Twas before we met; Now I keep some flow'rs before me, Lest I should forget". Video, Audio

"I did but wear my wedding ring, A bare week and day, When a grey ship, a grim ship, It took my love a way". Video, Audio

"My heart's oppress'd, My peace is o'er, I have no rest, no, never more." Video, Audio

"Your grave grey eyes are filled with tears; Your hands are trembling in my own". Video, Audio

"Rainbow, stay, Gleam up on gloom, Bright, bright as my dream, rainbow stay!" Video, Audio

"Night lies on the silent highways, Sick my heart, my limbs are weary; Then like gentle balm descendeth, Moon, thou soft light on me dreary." Video, Audio

"I will live so that my soul will nobler be". Video, Audio

"This is the hour for us to say good-bye; Soon you’ll be sailing far across the sea". Video, Audio

"Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is be hind us, O'er hilltop and meadow the moon gently beams". Video, Audio

"The soul is free; no bonds of Time nor Space Hedge it a round with fetters forg'd at birth". Video, Audio

"Tui! Tui throssel sang... May be such a carrilon over Arthur's table rang". Video, Audio

"They drag their cells with them in blank looks, And stagger, light-deprived pilgrims, in a square, The hunted who suffocate in the stone dungeon, The hunted trampled by a paragraph". Video, Audio

"The angry wind blows, I shiver like a child. The woman’s not coming home again, I swig all the cognac, And fear for her". Video, Audio

"Beneath a tree stricken with love I crept, Weary and lost alone I slept". Video, Audio