CDComplete works for solo piano / Peter Sculthorpe ; Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano.
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Featured Australian works
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Haiku (1965) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on Jun 14. |
Peter Sculthorpe | Tamara Anna Cislowska | 47 sec. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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[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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