Peter Sculthorpe Noten für Cello

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

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

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...

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...