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Peter Sculthorpe

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Peter Sculthorpe (April 29, 1929 - August 8th, 2014) is a noted Australian composer from Launceston, Tasmania. He is known primarily for his orchestral and chamber music, such as Kakadu (1988) and Earth Cry (1992), which evoke the sounds and feeling of the Australian bushland and outback. He has also written several string quartets, using unusual timbre effects, and works for piano. Sculthorpe's catalogue consists of more than three hundred and fifty works and

Top songs

  1. A Little Book of Hours: VI. Singing Sun
  2. Earth Cry
  3. Memento mori
  4. Requiem For Cello Alone: IV. Lacrimosa
  5. Requiem for 'cello alone'
  6. Requiem For Cello Alone: VI. Lux Aeterna
  7. String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore
  8. Djilile
  9. String Quartet No. 8: II. Risoluto
  10. String Quartet No. 8: III. Con dolore
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  1. String Quartet No. 8: IV. Con precisione
  2. String Quartet No. 8: V. Con dolore
  3. Requiem for 'cello alone': Lux aeterna
  4. Requiem for 'cello alone': Lacrimosa
  5. String Quartet No. 14, "Quamby": I. Prelude
  6. Small Town
  7. Kakadu
  8. Left Bank Waltz
  9. Music for Bali
  10. Requiem for 'cello alone': Qui Mariam
  11. String Quartet No. 16: III. Yearning
  12. Requiem for 'cello alone': Introit
  13. Two Easy Pieces: 2. Left Bank Waltz
  14. Requiem for 'cello alone': Kyrie
  15. Requiem for 'cello alone': Libera me
  16. Little Serenade
  17. Irkanda IV
  18. Little Suite: 3. Left Bank Waltz
  19. Nocturne No. 1
  20. Piano Concerto
  21. Night Pieces: No. 1. Snow
  22. Mangrove
  23. Kyrie
  24. Cello Dreaming
  25. Night Pieces: No. 2. Moon
  26. Introit
  27. String Quartet No. 16: I. Loneliness
  28. From Oceania
  29. String Quartet No. 16: II. Anger
  30. Mountains
  31. Night Pieces: No. 3. Flowers
  32. String Quartet No. 14, "Quamby": II. In the Valley
  33. From Ubirr
  34. String Quartet No. 14, "Quamby": IV. At Quamby Bluff
  35. Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 8, Con dolore
  36. Sun Music I
  37. String Quartet No. 18: I. Prelude
  38. String Quartet No. 12, "From Ubirr" (Earth Cry)
  39. Maranoa Lullaby
  40. String Quartet No. 14, "Quamby": III. On High Hills
  41. Night Pieces: No. 5. Stars
  42. Libera Me
  43. Qui Mariam
  44. Lacrimosa
  45. Falling Leaves
  46. Lux Aeterna
  47. Concerto rotondo - Lento con libertà
  48. Concerto rotondo - Allegro
  49. Sun Music II
  50. Song for a Penny
  51. Two Easy Pieces: II. Left Bank Waltz
  52. Little Passacaglia
  53. Night Pieces: No. 4. Night
  54. String Quartet No. 16: IV. Trauma
  55. Lament
  56. Short Piece for Pianoforte No. 1
  57. Sun Music III
  58. Island Songs: I. Song Of Home
  59. String Quartet No. 18: II. A Land Singing
  60. Irkanda I
  61. String Quartet No. 18: III. A Dying Land
  62. Evocation
  63. String Quartet No. 16: V. Freedom
  64. From Ubirr (1994)
  65. Sun Song
  66. Funerali di Carlo Magno
  67. Short Piece for Pianoforte No. 2
  68. Sun Music IV
  69. Siesta
  70. Nourlangie
  71. From Kakadu: I. Grave
  72. Concerto rotondo - Yafù
  73. String Quartet No. 18: V. Postlude
  74. Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 8, Risoluto
  75. String Quartet No. 18: IV. A Lost Land
  76. Little Suite: III. Left Bank Waltz
  77. Prelude to a Puppet Show
  78. Little Serenade: Little Serenade
  79. Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 8, Con precisione
  80. Nocturne [No. 1]
  81. Requiem For Cello Alone: III. Qui Mariam
  82. From Kakadu: II. Comodo
  83. From Kakadu: IV. Cantando
  84. Four Little Pieces For Piano Duet: 2. Sea Chant
  85. From Uluru
  86. Epigram
  87. Pastorale
  88. From Kakadu: III. Misterioso
  89. Jabiru Dreaming, Quartet No.1, II. Amoroso
  90. String Quartet No.11 Jaribu Dreaming: Deciso

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