Peter Sculthorpe

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.

'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...

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...

These two carols by Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe are in celebration of Christmas. 'The Birthday of thy King' was written in 1988 for the choir of King's College, Cambridge. Here it has been pa...

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...

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...

Duration: 13 minutes Instrumentation: scrt.4 solo crt.rcrt.2 crt.flhn.3 thn.2 brt.(2/4) trbn.btrbn.2 euph.2 Eb tuba.2 Bb tuba - timp - perc(1): SD/tam-t/tgl

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

Instrumentation: 2222 - 0200 - perc(3): 2 rainsticks/thunder sheet/tam-t/ch.cym/bongos/tom-t - strings

This is a calm, straightforward work, filled with thoughts of friends and friendly places. Its music grows from the falling intervals played by the guitar at the outset. In one movement, the work cons...

This work recalls my childhood in a small village outside Launceston, in Tasmania. I spent many hours swimming in the nearby river, the North Esk. There, while swimming, I often dreamed of being a com...

The living, indigenous musics of Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia, and of Torres Strait and beyond, have been a part of my musical language since the late ‘eighties. The incorporation i...

In the first place, Autumn Song was a short work for SATB chorus, written in 1968. The words, by Roger Covell, sing of an autumnal Australian landscape still recovering from the devastation caused by...

In 1989, I made my first visit to Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia. Looking out across the great floodplains there, I could see the abandoned sites of early white settlement, the Arafur...

The piano may be amplified. This, however, is necessary only when the work is performed with its companion piece, Landscape I, for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape. Landscape II was commissioned...

The piano may be amplified. This, however, is necessary only when the work is performed with its companion piece, Landscape I, for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape. Landscape II was commissioned...