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Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

While the colours change, it barely registers whether the music is most-Debussyan impressionism, serial, experimental...Sculthorpe's musical voice and sense of his own land and its cultures is... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The eagerly awaited Sculthorpe Requiem brings a further jewel to a wide audience, his first major choral work fascinatingly showing how his unique idiom translates into a traditional mould.... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2007 More…

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has consistently championed the music of its countryman Peter Sculthorpe. Cello Dreaming, premiered by Steven Isserlis and the BBC Philharmonic during the 1998... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Earth Cry (1986), previously recorded in 1989 by Stuart Challender, is one of Sculthorpe's major utterances, music at once approachable and elusive.
These aspects are extraordinarily heightened... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…