Partituras de Peter Sculthorpe para orquesta

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

'Earth cry' is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by a slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1) - strings

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 0200 - perc(3): 2 rainsticks/thunder sheet/tam-t/ch.cym/bongos/tom-t - strings

At the time, I wrote that Australia lacks “a common cause, and the self-interest of many has drained us of much of our energy. A bogus national identity and its commercialization has obscured the true...

It grows, it blossoms, it evolves with as much variety as the images in a kaleidoscope, and like a kaleidoscope it seems to fix the listeners' attention at a central point. . . musical ideas as fresh...

The program included one bona fide masterpiece, written in 1967 by Peter Sculthorpe. . .Sun Music III (Nos. I,II and IV are equally imposing) could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of t...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/BD/ch.cym/tam-t/3 congas/3 tom-t/bongos/crot/chime/glsp -strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - perc(3): tam-t/whip/3 tom-t/susp.cym/ch.cym/bongos - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2221 - timp - perc(1): susp.cym/gong/BD - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - timp - perc(1) tam-t/SD/susp.cym - strings