Peter Sculthorpe

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

A rigorously static work. The sonata, the dry gongs and desert glare of its percussion encircling the lonely human agony of the viola, exists in a climate in which emotion is all the fiercer for being...

Peter Sculthorpe's program note reads as follows: 'Lullaby is based upon one of the number of indigenous Australian melodies collected by Dr H.C. Lethbridge during the 1930s and is a lullaby for child...

The hard glitter of the Australian sun is translated into an imaginative range of vocal sonorities for SATB chorus with piano and three percussion players.

Instrumentation: didjeridu solo - 2222 - 4331 - timp - perc(3):tam-t/ch.cym/tgl/tubular bell (below D)/congas (pair)/timb/tom-toms(pair)/BD - strings

Into The Dreaming, composed by Peter Sculthorpe and arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

**Selected on the ABRSM Grade 7 Piano Syllabus 2015-2016.**

Singing Sun from 'A Little Book Of Hours', composed by Peter Sculthorpe for Piano Solo.

Little Passacaglia, written by Peter Sculthorpe and arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format.

Playing score of To Meadows composed by Peter Sculthorpe, in digital sheet music format.

. . . 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...

Out The Back composed by Peter Sculthorpe, in digital sheet music format.

Irkanda I, written by Peter Sculthorpe for Violin Solo.

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...

... the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969

It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one. Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly vol. 53, no. 4, 1967

... this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake - a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work. San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 8 J...

... one of his finest works... a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create m...

... true quartet-music, admirably conceived for the medium. I found it a most vivid and compelling piece. The Sunday Times (Desmond Shawe-Taylor), 7 December 1975

The terse String Quartet No 9 is a major addition to the quartet repertory.San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 1 March 1980