Partitions Peter Sculthorpe pour ensemble d'instruments à cordes

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

... 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

This is the Score for the String Quartet No.16 composed by Peter Sculthorpe for string quartet (with optional didjeridu) in digital sheet music format.

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...

The Loneliness of Bunjil for string trio was written in Tasmania in 1954 and revised in 1964. A note on the score reads: “In the beginning the Great Spirit Bunjil created the earth and all things in i...

The Loneliness of Bunjil for string trio was written in Tasmania in 1954 and revised in 1964. A note on the score reads: “In the beginning the Great Spirit Bunjil created the earth and all things in i...

Conjuring images not just of the sounds and rhythms of the aboriginal residents but the natural ethos of the landscape as well, the score was as richly colourful as it was faultlessly performed. Danie...

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...

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...