Peter Sculthorpe

... draws its inspiration from plainsong and maintains a wonderful sense of space and stillness. Helen Wallace, BBC Music Magazine, October 1995

The two pieces last 4 minutes.

Peter Sculthorpe's program note reads as follows: 'Lullaby is based upon one of the number of indigenous Australian melodies collected by Dr H.C. Lethbridge during the 1930s and is a lullaby for child...

The hard glitter of the Australian sun is translated into an imaginative range of vocal sonorities for SATB chorus with piano and three percussion players.

Instrumentation: didjeridu solo - 2222 - 4331 - timp - perc(3):tam-t/ch.cym/tgl/tubular bell (below D)/congas (pair)/timb/tom-toms(pair)/BD - strings

**Selected on the ABRSM Grade 7 Piano Syllabus 2015-2016.**

. . . a lovely work, wistful, yearning, elusive, and full of atmosphere. Central Western Daily (E. M. W.), 2 June 1976

. . an unmistakeable Australian accent in its throbbing phrases for low strings and in the dream-time patience of drawn-out melodies, which can only be called... though the word is in disrepute among...

Peter Sculthorpe Third Sonata for Strings "Jabiru Dreaming" (1994) I Deciso II Liberamente - Estatico Programme note Following a visit to Kakadu National Park in 1989, the indigenous music of northern...

... the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969

It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one. Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly vol. 53, no. 4, 1967

... this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake - a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work. San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 8 J...

... one of his finest works... a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create m...

... true quartet-music, admirably conceived for the medium. I found it a most vivid and compelling piece. The Sunday Times (Desmond Shawe-Taylor), 7 December 1975

The terse String Quartet No 9 is a major addition to the quartet repertory.San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 1 March 1980

Peter Sculthorpe's Threnody for Solo Cello , as composed in 1991/2.

Sea Chant (from 'Two Easy PIeces'), composed by Peter Sculthorpe and selected by Sally Adams for flute with piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.

... deserves attention from every self-respecting clarinettist. . . the clarinet part sang the Torres Strait dance song from which the work is derived with a transcendent beauty suggesting a Mahlerian...

At Bondi Beach, composed by Peter Sculthorpe for oboe with piano accompaniment. Taken from the Unbeaten Tracks series edited by Sarah Francis, 8 intermediate contemporary pieces for oboe and piano.

Irkanda I is a completely Australian work; the undisturbed, primeval land is like a silent presence summoned by the music, which is free of all sophisticated influences. The composer has shut himself...

Trinity College London selected piece (Singing 2010-2012): The Stars Turn (Sculthorpe), Peter Sculthorpe The Stars Turn This song is an arrangement of the central part of Love 200(1970), a work for tw...

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings