Peter Sculthorpe Noten für Streichorchester

. . . a lovely work, wistful, yearning, elusive, and full of atmosphere. Central Western Daily (E. M. W.), 2 June 1976

. . an unmistakeable Australian accent in its throbbing phrases for low strings and in the dream-time patience of drawn-out melodies, which can only be called... though the word is in disrepute among...

Peter Sculthorpe Third Sonata for Strings "Jabiru Dreaming" (1994) I Deciso II Liberamente - Estatico Programme note Following a visit to Kakadu National Park in 1989, the indigenous music of northern...

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

... 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...

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

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...

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...

Instrumentation: perc(2): timp/gong/vib/BD/susp.cym - strings

Most early immigrants and visitors to Australia were disturbed by what seemed to them to be a hostile landscape. One writer went as far as to suggest that Dante must have had gum trees in mind when he...