Peter Sculthorpe

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.

'A Little Book of Hours' draws together six pieces for the elementary pianist. Beautifully evocative and with powerful simplicity, the pieces reflect on a day in the life of Aboriginal people, journey...

Into the Dreaming'Sculthorpe's extraordinary ability to make even the simplest idea generate an almost tactile atmosphere which resonates long in the memory is at its most potent here. 'Cd Review (Sim...

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 work is an arrangement of the central part of Love 200 (1970), for rock band and orchestra. It acts as a nocturne-like slow movement, the only part of the work in which the rock band is silent. I...

Instrumentation: 0000 - (2)100 - perc(1): chime/tam-t - strings (trumpet may be replaced by an oboe)

Djilile was commissioned by the South Bank Centre for the Purcell Tercentenary. As a schoolboy, I was so excited when I first heard the “Lament” from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, that I wrote several wo...

I first met the Brodsky Quartet at the Dartington International Summer School in 1993. Mike, Ian, Paul and Jacqueline were preparing for a concert of my music, and we quickly established a firm friend...

Instrumentation: fl - perc(2): guiro/sandblock/wood chimes/mcas/bongos/ch.cym/music sticks/timb/tam-t - vln.vlc

Instrumentation: cl - perc(1): bongos/2 conga/tam-t/BD/ch.cym - 2 gtr - vln.db

Mit der „Little Suite for Strings“ präsentiert der renommierte Verlag Faber Music ein bezauberndes Werk für Streichorchester, das durch klangliche Raffinesse, Eleganz und musikalischen Charme besticht...

This work was written especially for the 1994 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Marked Con pietà, it consists of an introduction played by the first cello, followed by two statements of the chorale. While t...

Djilile was commissioned by the South Bank Centre for the Purcell Tercentenary. As a schoolboy, I was so excited when I first heard the “Lament” from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, that I wrote several wo...

Instrumentation: 0.2.ca(or cl, or vlc).0.0.(cbsn) - 4000, or 3010, or 2020, or 0220 - perc(1): tam-t/susp.cym/BD - strings Djilile for chamber orchestra This is one of a number of landscape-inspired w...