Peter Sculthorpe

Irkanda is an Australian native word meaning 'a remote and lonely place'.

'Earth cry' is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by a slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1) - strings

... an absolutely sterling score, accessible yet boldly original, conceptually fascinating and musically compelling. John Rockwell, The New York Times, 7 February 1988

The work draws its inspiration from Australia's so-called Top End. There, along the northern coastline, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultures mingle with those of Melanasia and Indonedia. Cello...

The score for Song Of The Yarra, composed by Peter Sculthorpe for soprano solo, violin obligato, SATB chorus and chamber ensemble, in digital sheet music format.

Sea Chant (from 'Two Easy Pieces'), composed by Peter Sculthorpe and edited by John Lenehan for easy piano solo in digital sheet music format.

A rigorously static work. The sonata, the dry gongs and desert glare of its percussion encircling the lonely human agony of the viola, exists in a climate in which emotion is all the fiercer for being...

Peter Sculthorpe's The Song of Tailitnama borrows from a culture - that of the Australian Aboriginal. . . and does so with a reverence and sense of wonder. Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 J...

Instrumentation: perc(2): tam-t/water gong/ch.cym/crot/ch.bell tree/bongos/timb/music sticks/guiro/wood chimes/sand block

Instrumentation: flamenco gtr.3 acoustic gtr.4 elec gtr.bgtr - string quartet

This piece may be played by string orchestra or string quintet.

Music of quality. . . delicate, harplike textures. They are evocative little sketches of a distinctly impressionistic kind. Musical Times (Frank Dawes), August 1975

Mountains was commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981, with assistance from the Music board of Australia Council. It was first performed by Gabriella Pusner in Verbugghen Hall...

Peter Sculthorpe brings you 'Three Pieces for Piano', which consists of, Djilie, Calllaboma and Simori. This is prepared for the solo piano.