Peter Sculthorpe

From Nourlangie for string quartet (1994) 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 abandoned sites...

Ubirr is a large rocky outcrop in Kakadu National Park, in northern Australia. It houses some of the best and most varied Aboriginal rock painting in the country. Many of the paintings have been prove...

Ubirr is a large rocky outcrop in Kakadu National Park, in northern Australia. It houses some of the best and most varied Aboriginal rock painting in the country. Many of the paintings have been prove...

The Little Serenade is a song of innocence. It was originally the main theme of the film Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell in 1968. Shortly before the New York premiere of the film, some part...

The Little Serenade is a song of innocence. It was originally the main theme of the film Age of Consent, directed by Michael Powell in 1968. Shortly before the New York premiere of the film, some par...

This charming 9-minute collection for string quartet comprises two arrangements of songs by George Gershwin: The Man I Love bookended by two versions of Somebody Loves Me.

This charming 9-minute collection for string quartet comprises two arrangements of songs by George Gershwin: The Man I Love bookended by two versions of Somebody Loves Me.

Instrumentation: perc(2): timp/vib/chimes/tam-t/2 susp.cym/BD/tom-t/bongos/guiro/mcas/sandblock/whip/tgl

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

Tailitnama Song (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is based upon The Song of Tailitnama, for soprano, six cellos and percussion, a work that I wrote in 1974. The text of the original work consists of four verse...

The very opening melody of this work is a transcription of an aboriginal chant from Arnhem Land, collected by the anthropologist A.P.Elkin in the late fifties. Still well-known in the area, the chant...

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

This short work was part of a garland of pieces written as a tribute to Justine Peberdy. A member of the executive staff of the Dartington International Summer School, Justine, for family reasons, had...

Songs of Sea and Sky was commissioned by the School of Music, Yale University, upon the retirement of Keith Wilson. The work is based on a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island just south of P...

This work was written out of sympathy for the violinist, who, like all performers, spends many hours practising on his or her own. It is, then, a duet in which violinist takes comfort in whistling or...