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Complete works for solo piano

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Complete works for solo piano / Peter Sculthorpe ; Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Aboriginal legend (1946) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 32 sec.
Callabonna (1963) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 4 mins, 8 sec.
Djilile (1991) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 5 mins, 5 sec.
Epigram (1946) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 12 sec.
Evocation (1946) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 27 sec.
Falling leaves (1945) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 49 sec.
Haiku (1965) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 47 sec.
Harbour dreaming (2000) for solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 6 mins, 51 sec.
Koto music I & II (1976) — piano with pre-recorded sound
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 12 mins, 52 sec.
Landscape (1971) — piano with pre-recorded sound
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 8 mins, 26 sec.
Left Bank waltz (1970) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 44 sec.
A Little book of hours (1998) for solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 6 mins, 11 sec.
Little passacaglia (2004) for solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 55 sec.
Mountains (1981) piano solo
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 5 mins, 4 sec.
Night pieces (1971) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 7 mins, 27 sec.
Nocturnal (1989) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 7 mins, 11 sec.
Nocturne (No. 1) (1945) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 3 mins, 21 sec.
Nocturne [No. 5] (1949) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 40 sec.
Nocturne (Seascape) (1948) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 49 sec.
Prelude to a puppet show (1945) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 30 sec.
Riverina dreaming (2011) for solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 25 mins, 20 sec.
The Rose Bay quadrilles (1989) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe and William Stanley Tamara Anna Cislowska 5 mins, 16 sec.
Sea chant (1970) for piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 54 sec.
Short piece for pianoforte No. 1 (1945) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 7 sec.
Short piece for pianoforte No. 2 (1946) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 56 sec.
Siesta (1946) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 18 sec.
Simori (1995) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 11 mins, 30 sec.
Sometimes when I'm dreaming (2002) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 48 sec.
Sonata for piano (1963) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 8 mins, 40 sec.
Sonata No. 1 (1946) — solo piano — Slow movement only
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 30 sec.
Sonatina (1954) for pianoforte
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 6 mins, 51 sec.
Song for a penny (2000) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 2 mins, 17 sec.
[Untitled piano piece] (1948) — solo piano
Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14.
Peter Sculthorpe Tamara Anna Cislowska 1 mins, 27 sec.

Product details

ABC Classics is delighted to unveil a deeply important new recording: the complete solo piano music of Australia's most revered composer, Peter Sculthorpe, who died in August 2014.

Sculthorpe is widely acknowledged as the first Australian composer to leave behind the traditions of Britain and Europe, and create a distinctively Australian music. His unique compositional voice was inspired by the land and the history of Australia, and by the cultures of our Pacific Basin neighbours.

His solo piano music is prized for its rich elegance and beguiling simplicity, from the mesmerising beauty of Djilile, based on an Indigenous Arnhem Land melody, to the gentle nostalgia of Left Bank Waltz. This double-CD album begins with the exquisite Falling Leaves, written when Sculthorpe was just 16, and concludes with the vivid and ambitious Riverina, his most recent work for solo piano. With the tracklist compiled in collaboration with the composer, the recording includes every published piece as well as previously unpublished, unrecorded and even unperformed works. In addition to more famous pieces, there is a range of charming miniatures and a pair of works for prepared piano (Koto Music I and II), all of which confirm Sculthorpe's reputation as a composer of international repute whose music speaks to the heart of the Australian experience.

Tamara Anna Cislowska, a close friend of Sculthorpe since performing his piano concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at the age of 14, was the composer's own choice for this recording. The album, recorded in June 2014, is engineered and produced by the ARIA Award-winning Virginia Read.

Duration: 159 min.

Includes programme notes and biographical notes on composer and performer.


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