Sculthorpe: Orchestral Works

Peter Sculthorpe (speaker), Joseph Ortuso (oboe), Bruce Lamont (trumpet), Anthony Fogg (piano), Mark Skillington (trumpet), Barbara Jane Gilby (violin)

Myer Fredman, Stuart Challender, Antony Walker, Richard Tognetti, David Stanhope, David Porcelijn

Release Date: 20th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: ABC4810548
Label: ABC Classics
Length: 70 minutes

Sculthorpe: The Fifth Continent

Work length6:01

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Peter Sculthorpe (speaker)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
David Porcelijn
Recorded: 1997

3. Small Town

Track length6:01

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Sculthorpe: Little Suite

Work length2:09

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
David Porcelijn
Recorded: 1997

2. Little Serenade

Track length2:09

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Sculthorpe: Sun Music

Work length12:17

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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
David Porcelijn
Recorded: 1997

Sun Music III

Track length12:17

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Sculthorpe: Piano Concerto: Calmo

Work length5:59

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Anthony Fogg (piano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Myer Fredman
Recorded: 1999

Sculthorpe: Earth Cry

Work length10:25

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Stuart Challender
Recorded: 1989

Sculthorpe: Djilile

Work length6:58

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Synergy
Recorded: 1994

Sculthorpe: Awake, Glad Heart

Work length2:56

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Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir
Antony Walker
Recorded: 1995

Sculthorpe: Sonata for Strings No. 3

Work length12:59

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Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti
Recorded: 1996

1. Deciso

Track length5:09

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2. Liberamente - Estatico

Track length7:50

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Sculthorpe: An Australian Anthem

Work length3:44

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The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
Recorded: 1995

McCormick: Advance Australia Fair

Work length3:08

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope
Recorded: 1996

Sculthorpe: Port Arthur: In Memoriam

Work length3:31

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Mark Skillington (trumpet), Barbara Jane Gilby (violin)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
David Porcelijn
Recorded: 1997

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A collection of orchestral works from renowned Australian composer, Peter Sculthorpe.

Sculthorpe has devoted his music to the representation of Australia, and to the unique experience of being 'Australian': reflections on the physical and climatic characteristics of Australian outback landscapes, as well as the loneliness they can instil; and also an awareness of Australia's physical proximity to the other countries of the Pacific Basin, from Japan in the north to his own native Tasmanian in the south, from Bali in the west to Mexico in the east. This album offers a compelling insight into the work of Australia’s most respected living composer.

His Sun Music series charted new territory for Australian music and claimed it as his own, with its intensely personal approach to landscape and nature; Sun Music III, featured on this album, evokes a tropical warmth with its abundant fertility and growth. The Sonata for Strings No. 3 explores the composer’s experience of Kakadu National Park; Djilile (‘Whistling-duck on a billabong’) draws on an Indigenous melody from northern Australia. In Earth Cry we hear Sculthorpe’s passionate plea for the Australian environment.

This collection also includes works such as Small Town, a tender celebration of a seaside settler community, and Little Serenade, composed for Michael Powell’s film treatment of Norman Lindsay’s novel Age of Consent. Port Arthur: In Memoriam, one of Sculthorpe’s most heartfelt works, was ‘written for the victims of the massacre at Port Arthur, 28 April 1996, for those who died, and for those who live with the memory of it.’

Sculthorpe: Orchestral Works

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