SCULTHORPE
WORK LIST (chronological)
Complete chronological list of musical compositions
(c.1941- last update 23 June 2011)
This is the composer's own authorised worklist, in a new edition first published on this website in 2009.
It is compiled from several previous lists: in the first instance those of his publisher Faber Music (ongoing), and that made in 1993 by the composer and his bio-bibliographer Deborah Hayes (see W1-W224 below).
More recent additions made by the composer himself (W225-currently W381), and corrections throughout are first published here. They have been made in consultation with the composer by his biographer Graeme Skinner,
and now bring the numbering of the Hayes worklist into stricter chronological order.
In its current form, this worklist is very much "IN PROGRESS", with new works, as well as further information about existing works, being added and corrected constantly! So, please bear with us while we create this
important resource. In due course, it is hoped to add further details to each work listing, including a full discography and bibliography (with a wider selection of quotes) and a selection of program notes, both by
the composer himself and by other writers.
For practical purposes, and for up-to-date sales information about any of the works, this list should be used in close reference with these Faber Music downloadable resources:
FABER MUSIC SCULTHORPE BROCHURE (PDF): http://www.fabermusic.co.uk/resources/pdfs/19-brochure.pdf
FABER MUSIC SCULTHORPE WORKLIST (by instrumentation/genre) (PDF): http://www.fabermusic.co.uk/resources/pdfs/19-worklist.pdf
1941-1944
JUVENILIA (St Leonards/Launceston, AUSTRALIA)
The works of Sculthorpe's teenage years, JUVENILIA, have not previously been listed in a published catalogue.
They are here given "J" numbers (adapted from an unpublished chronology originally compiled by Graeme Skinner c.1998) and include all compositions that survive in manuscript from c.1941 to c.1944
(Australia: Canberra, National Library of Australia [NLA], Sculthorpe Papers, MS 9676, Series 9)
Note that all the manuscripts, musical and otherwise, in the NLA's Sculthorpe collection are on open access to all accredited readers.
Of special note, three small 6-stave manuscript books include works labelled Opuses 1, 2 and 4 respectively.
Another book which originally contained the Opus 3 works has not survived.
| J1 | Adagio in Major Keys (Op. 1 Nos 3 & 4) for piano Autograph MS reproduced in Graeme Skinner, Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of an Australian Composer (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007), 65 |
| J2 | Air and Variations (Op. 1 No 6) for piano |
| J3 | Au jardin de l'église (Op. 1 No 7) for piano |
| J4 | Appassionato cantabile (Op. 1 No. 8) for organ |
| J5 | Trio (Op. 1 No 9) for violin, cello and piano |
| J6 | Andante (Op. 1 Nos 10 & 11) for piano |
| J7 | Fuga (Op. 1, No 12) for piano |
| J8 | Minuet (Op. 1 No 13) for piano |
| J9 | Air with Variation (Op. 1 No 14) for piano |
| J10 | Valse des jeunes ("Dedicated to the Grounds' Party") (Op. 1 No 15) for piano |
| J11 | Trusting (Op. 1 No 16) for grand organ and 2 voices Words: Peter Sculthorpe, reproduced in Skinner, 63 |
| J12 | Prelude No 1 in E flat (Op. 2 No 1) for piano MS (autograph) (J1-J12), Canberra, National Library of Australia [NLA], MS 9676/9, "Gordon Manuscript Music Book" [No 1], c.1941-42; [Op. 1 Nos 1 & 2 missing at beginning; Op. 1 No 5 ? missing]; unpublished; Bibliography: Skinner, 63-67. |
| J13 | Mariana, A Cavata (c.1941-42) for voice and piano "by P. J. Sculthorpe" [Words: PS; from "Gipsy Opera"] MS (NLA) separate Sheet, c. 1941-42; unpublished; Bibl.: Skinner, 72 |
| J14 | Thema (Op. 1 No 12) for piano [revised version of J7] |
| J15 | Minuet (Op. 1 No 13) for piano [revised version of J8] |
| J16 | Au Printemps, Chanson (Op. 2 No 3) for voice and piano [Words: PS; see J025 below] |
| J17 | Marche (Op. 2 No 4) for piano |
| J18 | Valse (Op. 1 No 15) for piano [revised version of J10] |
| J19 | Prelude in E flat (No. 1) (Op. 2 No 1) for piano [revised version of J12] |
| J20 | Drinking Song (Op. 2 No 5) for voice and piano [Words: PS; from "Chinese opera", The Golden Fisherman; see Skinner, 72] |
| J21 | Ballet petite (Op. 2 No 6) for piano |
| J22 | Prelude No 2 in E (Op. 2 No 7) for piano |
| J23 | Allegro in F, A Duet (Op. 2 No 9) for piano duet |
| J24 | Prelude No 3 in D flat (Op. 2 No 10) for piano MS (autograph) (J14-J24), NLA, "Gordon Manuscript Music Book" [No 2], c. 1942 ("Compositions Book II"); unpublished; Bibl: Skinner, 66-67 |
| J25 | Fleur de Valle (c.1942-43): a musical play MS (autograph), NLA; libretto only, no music survives, except J16 was to be included in the work; c.1942-43 unpublished; Bibl: Skinner, 72-73, 79 |
| J26 | It's Blossom Time (Op. 4 No 3) for voice and piano "Words and music by P. J. Sculthorpe"; MS (autograph), NLA, separate sheet, c.1943; unpublished; Bibl: Skinner, 76 |
| J27 | [Sketches], possibly for some theatre music MS (autograph), NLA, separate sheet, c.1943 |
| J28 | All Mine, Is Yours (Op. 4 No 1) for voice and piano ["words & music by P. J. Sculthorpe"] |
| J29 | Sonatina (Op. 4 No. 2) for piano |
| J30 | Romance in E for piano [revised version of J22] |
| J31 | Nocturne, "à Daniel" for piano for Daniel Thomas; see Skinner, 74] |
| J32 | Fantasie for piano |
| J33 | [Untitled]: sketch for opening of piano concerto; see Skinner, 71, 76, 127, 146. MS (autograph) (J28-J33): NLA, "Gordon Manuscript Music Book" [No 3], c.1943-44; unpublished; Bibliography: Skinner, 76 |
| J34 | [Untitled]: further sketches for piano concerto MS (autograph), NLA, separate sheets, c. 1944 |
| J35 | [Untitled] (1944-45) for flute, harp and strings Composed: Devonport, Tasmania, 1944-45; MS (autograph), NLA ("Oric" MS book); Bibl: Skinner, 82 |
1945
St Leonards/Launceston
The list of works from 1942 to 1992 was originally compiled in close consultation with the composer by Deborah Hayes, in Peter Sculthorpe: a bio-bibliography (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993). Hayes presented the works in basically chronological order, and alloted each a "W" (work) number (W1 through W224), largely retained here though with some corrections (as indicated), authorised by the composer, and made by Graeme Skinner, first published here (1 January 2009).
| W1 | Nocturne (1944/1945) for piano Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph): NLA, 4 pages, a probably somewhat later copy (c. late 1940s) that adds to the title "No 1" (see also "No 5", = W41); unpublished; earliest documented performance/broadcast (Australia-wide): 31 August 1945, ABC Radio 7NT, Launceston, Peter Sculthorpe (piano); Bibl: Hayes, 35; Skinner, 77, 90 |
| W2 | It's dark down the street (1945) for "Sprechtstimme" and piano [words: PS] Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph), NLA; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 35; Skinner, 88 |
| W3 | Falling Leaves (1945) for piano Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph), NLA ["Op. 5, no. 1"], 3 pages; performance/broadcast (Tasmania only), 11 September 1945, ABC Radio 7NT, Launceston, Peter Sculthorpe (piano); unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 35; Skinner, 84, 89, 90 |
| W4 | Short Piece for Pianoforte No 1 (1945) Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph): NLA, 3 pages [undated]; performance/broadcast (Australia-wide): 31 August 1945, ABC Radio 7NT, Launceston, Peter Sculthorpe [PS], piano; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 89,m 90. |
| W5 | Short Piece for Pianoforte No 2 (1945) Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph): NLA, 3 pages [undated]; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36 |
| W6 | Slow Movement from Sonata No 1 (1945) for piano Composed: St Leonards/Launceston; "2nd movement"; the rest of the Sonata, if it was ever composed, has not survived; MS (autograph): NLA, 4 pages; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 89, 90 |
| W6a | Prelude to a Puppet Show (1945) for piano Revision of the above; MS (autograph): NLA, 4 pages; performance/broadcast (Australia-wide): 31 August 1945, ABC Radio 7NT, Launceston, Peter Sculthorpe (piano); unplublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 89 |
| W6b | Winter Woodland (1945) for piano Revision of the above; title after woodcut by artist Paul Nash; MS (autograph): NLA, 4 pages; performance/broadcast (Tasmania only), 11 September 1945, ABC Radio 7NT, Launceston, Peter Sculthorpe (piano); unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 89-90 |
| W7 | Short Piece for Piano (1945) for piano Revision of W005; composed St Leonards/Launceston; MS (autograph): NLA ("To W[ilfred] T[eniswood]", "Sept. 1945"), 3 pages; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 91 |
1946
Melbourne - St Leonards/Launceston
| W8 | For Hayes's W8, Aboriginal Legend (1946), more probably recte 1947, see W31a |
| W9 | Evocation (1946) for piano Composed: Brunswick, Melbourne; MS (autograph): NLA, "March 1946"; Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 96 |
| W10 | Chamber Suite (1946) for voice, bassoon and piano [LOST] Sculthorpe recalled that the text was by Paul Verlaine, in his own (PS's) English translation; composed for fellow students Frances Cowper (soprano), George Dreyfus (bassoon); Bibl: Hayes, 36; Skinner, 104 "I was struck by the promise and unusual talent exhibited by the work of Peter Sculthorpe, entitled Chamber Suite, and have pleasure in selecting the work as the winning composition." - Professor Bernard Heinze (judging the 1946 J.A. Steele Composition Prize, University of Melbourne Conservatorium), quoted in Skinner, 104 |
| W11 | Sonatina No 1 (1946) for piano [LOST] MS (autograph): NLA, some sketches for first movement only; Sculthorpe recalled that the work was in 2 movements; Bibl: Hayes 36; Skinner, 99 |
| W12 | New Hampshire (1946) for unaccompanied chorus and solo soprano Text: T. S. Eliot; MS (autograph): NLA, "August 1946"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes 36; Skinner, 103 |
| W13 | Epigram (1946) for piano MS (autograph): NLA, "August 1946"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes 37; Skinner, 99 |
| W14 | Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad (1946) for voice and piano Text: Edith Sitwell; MS (autograph): NLA, "Sept. 1946", 3 pages; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes 37; Skinner, 103 |
| W15 | Siesta (1946) for piano MS: NLA; "Sept. 1946", 3 pages; see also W19; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes 37; Skinner, 99 |
| W16 | Come Sleep (1946) for mixed chorus unaccompanied Text: John Fletcher; MS: NLA, "Part-song", undated ; unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 37; Skinner, 111 |
| W17 | The Olive (1946) for voice and piano Text: A. E. Housman; MS (autograph), NLA, "October 1946", 3 pages; unpublished; Hayes, 37; 103 |
| W18 | Elegy for a Clown (1946) for voice and piano Text: Peter Sculthorpe; MS (autograph): NLA, "November 1946", 2 pages; edition of complete song in Michael Hannan, Peter Sculthorpe: His Music and Ideas (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 7-8; Bibl.: Hayes, 37; 102-103; Skinner, 87, 103-04 |
| W19 | Piece (1946) for bassoon and piano MS (autograph): NLA, "To my friend G[eorge] D[reyfus]", a rough though complete sketch, the title "Piece" added later; reuses some material from Siesta (1946) for pianp, but mostly newly composed; unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 37 lists the piece as Siesta, arr. for bassoon and piano; but see Skinner, 102 |
| W19a | Sonatina for Piano and Bassoon (1946) MS (autograph): NLA, bassoon part only, "To George" (NLA file also contains PS's 2001 reconstruction of the complete work as W306); the bassoon part was found by James Murdoch among his papers (Murdoch was probably given the original by Deryfus in the late 1960s), who returned it to PS in 1997; unpublished; Bibl.: Not in Hayes; Skinner, 102 See also revised published version as W306: Sonatina (1946/2001) for bassoon and piano |
| W20 | Monsieur Miroir (1946) for voice and piano Text (in French): Philippe Soupalt; MS (autograph): NLA [undated]; 2 pages; unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 37; Skinner, 102 |
| W20a | My heart is like a singing bird (c.1946-47) for voice and piano [LOST] Text: Christina Rossetti; Bibl.: not listed in Hayes; Skinner, 103 |
1947
Melbourne - St Leonards/Launceston
| W21 | In the Morning (1947) for voice and piano Text: A. E. Housman; MS: NLA, "Feb. 1947"; unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 37; Skinner, 104-05 |
| W22 | When Two That Have Loved are Parting (1947) for voice and piano Text: Heinrich Heine ["Wenn zwei voneinander scheinden"]; English translation: Robert Garran; MS: NLA, "Feb. 1947"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 37; Skinner, 105 |
| W23 | To Meadows (1947) for 3 female voices unaccompanied Text: Robert Herrick; MS: NLA, "April 1947"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 111, 113 |
| W24 | Take, O Take Those Lips Away (1947) for voice and piano Text: William Shakespeare (from Measure for Measure); MS (autograph): NLA, "May 1947"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 111, 113; see also W83 |
| W25 | Hughley Steeple (1947) for voice and piano Text: A. E. Housman (from A Shropshire Lad); MS (autograph): NLA, undated; unpublished; Bibl: hayes, 38; Skinner, 111 |
| W26 | Aspatia's Song (1947) for voice and piano Text: Beaumont and Fletcher; MS (autograph): NLA, "May 1947"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 110 |
| W27 | Jack and Joan (1947) for voice and piano Text: Thomas Campion |
| W28 | To Meadows (1947) for soprano and string orchestra Text: Robert Herrick; composer's arrangement of W23, probably for Henri Touzeau and the Melbourne Conservatorium String Orchestra (in which PS played double bass); unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 111 |
| W29 | Elegy (1947) for string orchestra Composed for Henri Touzeau and the Melbourne Conservatorium String Orchestra (in which PS played double bass), though there is no evidence that it was ever performed; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 108-09 |
| W30 | Jack and Joan (1947) for soprano and strings Text: Thomas Campion; arrangement of W27 probably made for Henri Touzeau and the Melbourne Conservatorium String Orchestra (in which PS played double bass); unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38; Skinner, 111 |
| W31 | Two Reveries (1947) for voice and piano 1. A dryad murmurs in trembling tones; 2. O who is she who kissed thy brow Text: Peter Sculthorpe; unlublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 38 |
| W31a | Aboriginal Legend (1947) for piano [LOST] MS (autograph), NLA (untitled sketches only); first documented performance: 6 October 1947, Melbourne University Conservatorium, PS (piano); Bibl: Hayes, 36 [=W8]; Skinner, 113, 115, 116 |
| W31b | String Quartet No 1 (? 1944-48) [LOST] There is no independent documentary record from these years of the existence or performance of a First Quartet; Hayes does not list the work, though Sculthorpe has referred to it; in 1996, he recalled that its movements were arrangements for strings of recent song settings, its contents varying from performance to performance; possibly included an arrangement of W26 Aspatia's Song; Bibl.: Skinner, 116; see also 1996 arrangement as W271 Little Song (1944/1996) for string quartet ("from String Quartet No 1") |
1948
| W32 | Trio (1948) for oboe, viola and cello Bibl: Hayes, 32; Skinner, 122 | |
| W33 | A Glimpse of Seventeenth Century England (1948) for voice and piano Included: How should I your true love know?; possibly also W24, Take, O take those lips away Texts: Shakespeare; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 38-39; Skinner, 117 |
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| W34 | Aubade (1948) for string orchestra Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 122 |
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| W35 | O cool is the valley now (1948) for voice and piano Text: James Joyce; MS (autograph), NLA; "Reverie", "1948", For Mrs [Gwynneth] Dixon"; unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 116 |
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| W36 | String Quartet No 2 (1948) [LOST] In one movement; FP: 3 August 1948, Lehmann Quartet; Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 121-22 |
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| W37 | [Untitled] (? 1948) for piano MS (autograph): NLA, undated, "in a nauseating lavender-and-lace-manner"; unpublished; Bibl: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 123 |
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| W38 | Nocturne (? 1948) for piano MS (autograph), NLA, undated; also performed as Sea Scape; unpublished; Bibl:. Hayes, 39 |
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| W39 | Three Songs (1948) for piano [LOST] 1. Mushrooms; 2. Sleep; 3. The Children's Minuet Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 122 |
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| W40 | Prelude to Suite for String Orchestra (1948) MS (autograph), NLA, undated, 2 pages; includes reworking of W34; Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 122 |
1949
Melbourne - St Leonards/Launceston
| W41 | Nocturne (1949) for piano MS (autograph): NLA, undated, 2 pages, "For Hetty" [Harriet Nemenoff]; other copy possibly "To Rex" [Hobcroft]; unpublished;? FP: 22 June 1949, Assembly Hall, Melbourne, Nemenoff (piano); Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 125-126 |
| W42 | Nocturne (1949) for violin and piano MS (autiograph): NLA, undated, 3 pages; arrangement by PS of W41, for Wilfred Lehmann (violin); unpublished; Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 126 |
| W43 | Two Aboriginal Songs (1949) for voice (or unison voices) and orchestra 1. Maranoa Lullaby; 2. Warrego Lament Based closely on popular Allan & Co. edition of Aboriginal text and melody as "collected by H. O. Lethbridge, with accompaniments by Arthur S. Loam"; done as an Orchestration exercise for assessment; Bibl.: Hayes, 39; Skinner, 123-24; for Sculthorpe's later settings see W268 Maranoa Lullaby (1996) for mezzo soprano and string quartet; W361 Maranoa Lullaby (2007) for solo cello; and in W334 Requiem (2004) |
| W44 | String Quartet No 3 (1949) [LOST] 1. Pastorale; 2: Interlude; 3: Fantasy ? FP: 26 October 1949; Bibl.: Skinner, 133; in 1996 Sculthorpe recalled that it may have included an arragement of W28 To Meadows and that the Pastorale may have been the same as the Pastorale in W47 String Quartet No 4; see Sculthorpe's 1996 arrangements W271a To Meadows (1947/1949/1996) from String Quartet No 3; and W271b Pastorale (1949/1950/1996) from String Quartets Nos 3 and 4 |
| W45 | Overture (1949) for theatre orchestra MS (full score), NLA, undated, 27 pages; (piano score), 5 pages; Bibl.: Hayes, 40; Skinner, 129-30 |
1950
Melbourne - St Leonards/Launceston
| W46 | Country Dance (1950) for piano |
| W47 | String Quartet No 4 (1950) "Recollections of holidays spent in a country village in Tasmania" 1. Prelude; 2. Pastorale, 3. Country Dance FP: 14 June 1950, British Music Society Rooms, Melbourne; Wilfred Lehmann Quartet; see 1996 arrangement as W271b Pastorale (1949/1950/1996) from String Quartets Nos 3 and 4 |
| W48 | Elegy (1950) for string orchestra |
| W49 | Suite (1950) for piano "From the background music to an experimental documentary film on Tasmanian life" 1. Introduction; 2. Aubade; 3. Interlude; 4. Eclogue; 5. Finale Includes material derived from W23, W27 and W45 |
| W50 | The White Bird (1950) for voice and piano Text: Peter Sculthorpe; MS (autograph): NLA, "Devonport [Tasmania] Dec. 1950. For Gwen [Gwynneth Dixon]" |
1951
Launceston
| W51 | "Music I-VII" (1951-54) for various ensembles [LOST] Bibl.: Roger Covell, Australia's music: Themes of a new society (Sydney, 1967); 203; Hayes, 40; Skinner, 154-55 |
| W52 | Much Ado About Nothing (1951) incidental music for voice and small ensemble Includes: Overture; Song (Sigh no more ladies); Slow Dance Text: Shakespeare; composed for Launceston Players; song setting for Rex Gofton; FP: 22 August 1951, Launceston |
1952
Launceston
| W53 | Strings in the Earth and Air (1952) for voice and piano Text: James Joyce; MS (autograph), NLA, "Jan. 25, 1952"; composed: Pateena, near Longford, Tasmania; for Rex Gofton (tenor) |
| W54 | The Miser (1952) incidental music for Molière's play [LOST] For the Launceston Players; FP: 7 October 1952, Launceston |
1953
Launceston
| W55 | Ballet (1953) for piano MS (autograph), University of Melbourne Library, "May 1953", 20 pages |
| W56 | Overture (1953) for orchestra [LOST] |
| W57 | The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1953) incidental music for play by Leo Marks for solo piano [LOST] |
1954
Launceston
| W58 | Life With Father (1954) incidental music for the Lindsay and Grouse play for solo piano [LOST] For Launceston Players; FP: 31 March 1954, National Theatre, Launceston, PS (piano) |
| W59 | Sonatina for Piano (1954) ("For the journey of Yonecara to the land of his forefathers") In three movements Based on an Australian Aboriginal legend; FP: 19 June 1955, ISCM Festival, Baden-Baden [DE], Maria Bergmann (piano); printed edition: University of Sydney Music Publications/Leeds Music (1964) |
| W60 | The Loneliness of Bunjil (1954) for violin, viola and cello Based on an Australian Aboriginal legend; FP: 30 November 1960, Royal Festival Hall, London [UK], Haydn Trio; the published score is as revised by PS c.1960-64 |
| W60a | Variations (1954) for solo violin FP: Late 1954, Melbourne, Wilfred Lehmann (violin); later second movement of W61b |
1955
Launceston
| W61 | Sonata for Violin Alone (1955) 1. Prelude; 2. Five Aspects of a Slow Theme; 3. Postlude MS, NLA, Movt. 1 "Feb.-March 1955"; Movt. 2 [=W60a Variations]; Movt. 3 "PS Feb. 1955"; FP: 28 March 1955, Assembly Hall, Melbourne [AU], Wilfred Lehmann (violin) |
| W62 | Irkanda I (1955) for solo violin MS, NLA, a probably somewhat later revised score (c. late 1950s or early 1960s), inscribed "To Wilfred Lehmann ... Canberra 1955"; published score (Faber Music) (1977); FP: 30 June 1955, British Music Society Rooms, Melbourne [AU]: Wilfred Lehmann (violin) "To hear a work for the first time and to be immediately convinced of its outstanding qualities is an astonishing sensation. There was initially the revelation of simplicity combined with powerful atmosphere; Irkanda I is a completely Australian work; the undisturbed, primeval land is like a silent presence summoned by the music, which is free of all sophisticated influences. The composer has shut himself off from tonality and there is a wordless searching as if language had not yet been invented; the music portrait of a non-human environment." - Romola Costantino, The Sydney Morning Herald (19 November 1965) |
1956
Launceston - Canberra
| W63 | Junius on Horseback (1956) incidental music for play by Walter Sutherland for piano [LOST] For Launceston Players; FP: 17 March 1956, Playhouse, Hobart TAS [AU], PS (piano) |
| W64 | Twelfth Night (1956) incidental music for Shakespeare's play Including songs: O mistress mine; Come away, Death; I am gone, Sir; When that I was a little tiny boy For Canberra Repertory Society; FP: 29 June 1956, Canberra, Edwin Ride (voice); see also W83 |
| W65 | Ulterior Motifs (1956) a musical farce in three acts for two pianos, soloists and chorus Dialogue by Ric Throssell, lyrics by AnneGodfrey-Smith; for Canberra Repertory Society; FP: 9 November 1956, Canberra |
1957
Launceston - Sydney
| W66 | Sons of the Morning (1957) taped incidental music for radio play by Catherine Duncan Recorded: PS; Broadcast: ABC Radio, Sydney [AU] |
| W67 | Don't Listen Ladies (1957) taped incidental music for radio play by Catherine Duncan Recorded: PS; Broadcast: 19 June 1957 |
| W67a | Sometimes When I'm Dreaming (1957) for voice and piano Lyrics: Catherine Duncan; original MS, lost; but see later piano solo version W311 (2002) |
| W68 | Cross Section (1957) six revue songs to lyrics by John McKellar 1. Truth in Advertising; 2. Manic Espresso; 3. Redleaf Revelations; 4. Shooting a Lion; 5. I Knew a Fella; 6. Something You Can't Pin Down FP: 12 September 1957, Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney; Phillip Street Theatre Company (William Orr, producer; Dot Mendoza, music director) |
1958
Launceston - Birmingham [UK]
| W69 | Movements from Cross Section (1958) for jazz band [LOST] Arranged probably by Ray Cook or Eric Razdell at the request of Louis Armstrong for his band's August 1958 Sydney concerts; Sculthorpe had no hand in either the selection or arrangement |
| W70 | Waltz (1957/1958) for piano Original MS lost, but work variously dated by Sculthorpe to 1957 and 1958; earliest surviving copy is as Theme in W81 They Found a Cave (1961); arranged in 1970 as W117a, under the title Left Bank Waltz for piano, named after Sculthorpe's first fleeting pass through Paris by train (5-6 September 1958); Bibl.: Hayes, 44; Skinner, 204, 205 |
| W71 | Man from Outer Space (1958) taped music for an animated film by Charles Wolnizer [LOST] Bibl.: Hayes, 44; Skinner, 195 |
| W72 | Some New Moon (1958) incidental music for a play by Catherine Duncan Includes solo piano music [LOST] and Moon after Midnight for voice and piano FP: 28 July 1958, Hobart; song published with play-script; Bibl.: Hayes, 44; Skinner, 198 |
| W73 | Prophecy (1958) for unison voices and piano 1. The Laying Waste; 2. The Blossoming Text: Isaiah 34; completed: 23 November 1958, Birmingham [UK]; completed for Oxford composition tutorial with Edmund Rubbra; Bibl.: Hayes, 44; Skinner, 215 |
1959
Birmingham -Thame - Oxford [UK]
| W74 | L'Avare (1959) taped incidental music for Moliere's play [LOST] Composed (on tape): Thame/Oxford, January-February 1959; FP: 9 February 1959, Oxford Cercle Française; not in Hayes; for Hayes's W74 see W76a Sun below |
| W75 | Irkanda II (1959) for string quartet = String Quartet No 5 (1959) In a single movement Completed: Thame [UK], 2 April 1959; FP: 29 February 1960, Lincoln College, Oxford [UK], City of Birmingham SO String Quartet (Wilfred Lehmann, leader); MS, NLA, "Feb/Mar 1959"; a related but later work is W271c Prologue (1996) for string quartet, which Sculthorpe composed in 1996 using materials from W76b Sun, and which he described as "from String Quartet No 5"; however, it was never part of the original work |
| W76 | Sonata for Cello Alone (1959) In a single movement Completed: 29 April 1959, Thame [UK]; for Eldon Fox (cello), but never performed by him; FP: 12 October 1980, Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst, Sydney [AU], Megan Garner (cello) |
1960
Oxford [UK]
| W76a | Sun (1960) for voice and piano 1. Sun in Me; 2. Tropic; 3. Desire Goes Down into the Sea Texts: D. H. Lawrence; completed: 3 June 1960, Oxford [UK]; MS autograph) NLA, "for Wilfrid and Peggy Mellers" (copy used by Mellers in FP); FP: 13 August 1960, Attingham Hall, Shropshire [UK], Pauline Lewis [Peggy Mellers] (mezzo-soprano), Wilfrid Mellers (piano); Bibl.: Hayes, 44 (but note that date 1958 is incorrect); Skinner, 240-42 Sculthorpe prepared a revised version of this work, Sun in Me (2009) [W369], for performance at the Canberra International Festival of Music in May 2009 |
| W77 | Sonata for Viola and Percussion (1960) In a single movement Completed: 14 July 1960, Oxford; MS: NLA, "Oxford July 1960"; FP: 13 August 1960, Attingham Park Summer School, Shropshire [UK]: Rosemary Green (viola), Peter Sculthorpe (percussion); printed edition (Faber 1979) dedicated "to [the late] Peter Komlos" "A rigorously static work. The sonata, the dry gongs and desert glare of its percussion encircling the lonely human agony of the viola, exists in a climate in which emotion is all the fiercer for being half-stifled and haltingly articulate." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald (15 August 1964) |
| W78 | King Lear (1960) taped incidental music for Shakespeare's play Composed (on tape), October 1960, Oxford; FP: 24 October 1960, Playhouse, Oxford; Lincoln College Players (Peter Hughes, producer) |
1961
Launceston [AU]
| W79 | Irkanda III (1961) for piano trio In a single movement Begun: October 1960, Oxford [UK]; completed: January 1961, Launceston [AU]; commissioned by Birmingham Chamber Music Society; FP: 18 Febuary 1961, Birmingham Art Gallery, Birmingham [UK], London Czech Trio; original version unpublished; for revised partial published version, see W283 From Irkanda III (1961/1999) for piano, violin and cello |
| W80 | Irkanda IV (1961) for solo violin, strings and percussion In a single movement Composed: June 1961, Launceston; FP: 5 August 1961, Nicholas Hall, Melbourne [AU]: Wilfred Lehmann (violin); Astra String Orchestra; George Logie-Smith (conductor); reworks material from W75 Irkanada II, W76a Sun (song 1), and W77 Sonata for Viola and Percussion; Bibl.: Hayes, 46; Skinner, 254-60 "[...] a work of passionate certainty of expression. Its throbbing emotionalism speaks directly and immediately to any listener." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald (31 July 1963) |
| W80a | Irkanda IV (1961) arr. for flute, viola, cello and percussion Arrangement of W80 made for Hobart ABC TV Spectrum program; FP: 12 October 1961; Bibl.: Skinner, 261 |
| W81 | They Found a Cave (1961) music for feature film for solo harmonica and chamber ensemble [NB = Hayes's W82]; composed October-November 1961; recorded: November 1961, Sydney [AU]; Larry Adler (harmonica); first release of the Columbia/Visatone/Island Film, 20 December 1962, Hobart TAS [AU]; Charles Wolnizer (producer); Andrew Steane (director); "Theme" and "Journey's End" issued on 7 inch EP; the Theme is an arr. of a waltz composed earlier (1957/58) as W70, and later arr. as W117b Left Bank Waltz (1970) for piano solo [NB = Hayes W104]; Bibl.: Hayes, 46; Skinner, 260-61, 262 |
1962
Launceston [AU]
| W82 | Three Edna Sculthorpe Songs (1962) for voice and piano 1. Fallen for you; 2. Why don't you make your mind up; 3. Tell me you love me [NB = Hayes's W81]; text: Edna Sculthorpe (PS); Bibl: Hayes, 46, Skinner, 274 |
| W83 | Two Shakespeare Songs (1962) for voice and piano 1. Take, O take those lips away (arr. from W24). 2. O mistress mine (arr. from W64 Twelfth Night) Texts: William Shakespeare; MS (autograph), NLA, "To Max [Oldaker]" [for his 55th birthday, 17 December 1962]; Bibl.: Hayes, 47; Skinner, 266 |
1963
Launceston [AU]
| W84 | The Splendour and the Peaks (1963) music for documentary film for clarinet, horn, cello, guitar and percussion Commissioned by the Commonwealth Film Unit, Sydney; recorded: 26 March 1963, Sydney NSW [AU], ensemble directed by George English; theme (originally for solo guitar) later arranged in W92, and as Sea Chant; Bibl: Hayes, 47; Skinner, 274-76 |
| W85 | The Fifth Continent (1963) radiophonic work for speaker, orchestra and recorded sound (didjeridu and wind) 1. Prologue; 2. Outback [ = arr. of W80]; 3. Small Town; 4: Pacific; 5. Epilogue [= Hayes's W87]; spoken text: from Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence; composed: March-June 1963, recorded: early July 1963, Frederick Parslow (speaker), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Matthews (conductor); submitted as the ABC's entry for the 1963 Italia Prize; first public broadcast of the work: 26 january 1964, ABC radio national; Bibl.: Hayes, 47-48; Skinner, 280-83, 289-95 |
| W86 | Kings Cross Overture (1963) for orchestra [LOST] Composed for Tasmanian [Symphony] Orchestra and Thomas Matthews (conductor), evidently completed by original deadline of September 1963, but was not performed; possibly reworking of material from W68 Cross Section [Manic Espresso] and W85 The Fifth Continent [Small Town]; Bibl.: Hayes, 47; Skinner, 281, 296, 301-02, 304 |
| W87 | Sonata for Piano (1963) In two movements [= Hayes's W85]; composed by 20 October 1963; FP (movt. 1 only): 16 October 1963, ABC TV Hobart, Eileen Ralf (piano); FP (complete): 3 November 1963, ISCM Sydney branch concert, Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst, Sydney NSW [AU], PS (piano); later freely arranged in W89 The Troubled Mind (1964) and more closely as the first two movements of W91 String Quartet No 6 (1965); first movement later also revised as W197 Callabonna (1963/1989) for piano solo; Bibl.: 47; Skinner, 304-05; 310-11 |
1964
Sydney [AU]
| W88 | El Alamein Fountain (1964) music for documentary film Composed: Launceston, January 1964; recorded: February 1964, Sydney; first shown: march 1964, UNESCO Music for Film seminar, Adelaide SA [AU] |
| W89 | The Troubled Mind (1964) music for documentary film for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, cello and double bass Commissioned by the Commonwealth Film Unit, Sydney; recorded: 7 April 1964, Sydney, ensemble directed by Hal Evans; film finally released entitled Under Stress |
| W90 | Irkanda IV (1961/1964) arranged for strings and percussion The original solo part of W80 is written into the first violin part; like the original it is scored for a single percussion player (whereas the arrangement, likewise without soloist, as second movement of W85 is scored for 2 percussion players); published by the Australian Music Fund/Allan and Co., Melbourne, 1964 |
1965
Sydney [AU]
| W91 | String Quartet No 6 (1965) 1. Lento molto; 2. Con moto - Lento - Con moto; 3. Lento - Con moto - Lento Commissioned under the terms of the First Alfred Hill Memorial Award, administered by Musica Viva Society of Australia; FP: 1 April 1965, Town Hall, Sydney NSW [AU], Austral String Quartet; movements 1 and 2 based closely on movements 1 and 2 of W87 Sonata for Piano; movement 3 includes material from W76a Sun (song 3) "It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one." - Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly [US] (1967) "[...] the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. - Kenneth Robins, The Bulletin [AU] (27 September 1969) |
| W92 | South by Five (1965) for treble voices and instruments (Text: Roger Covell) |
| W93 | Haiku (1964/65) for piano Reworked for orchestra as part of W94 Sun Music I |
| W93a | Three Haiku (1964/65) for piano [LOST] Possibly included W93 above; Bibl.: Not in Hayes; but see Skinner, 350 |
| W94 | Sun Music I (1965) for orchestra [10:00] Originally Sun Music (unnumbered); written upon the invitation of Bernard Heinze for performance at the 1965 Commonwealth Arts Festival; FP: 30 September 1965, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) "[...] 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, glaring impersonal force in a country dominated by it." - David Cairns, The Financial Times [UK] (September 1965) "[...] a strikingly imaginative aural achievement." - The Times [UK] (September 1965) |
1966
New Haven - New York - Saratoga Springs [US]
| W95 | Night Piece (1966) for SATB chorus and prepared piano (Text: Chris Wallace-Crabbe) [2:30] |
| W96 | Sun Music for Voices and Percussion (1966) for SATB chorus, piano, percussion [9:00] Originally Sun Music II (1966) for voices and percussion; later also renamed Canto 1520 (after the year that Moctezuma was killed); FP: 13 March 1966 Adelaide Festival, Elder Hall, Adelaide SA [AU], Pro Musica Choir, Donald Peart (conductor) "[...] made instant communication with its scalpprickling excitement. There was an absolute rightness about every sound which marks Peter Sculthorpe as a major composer. - Frank Harris, The Mirror (Sydney [AU]) (11 May 1966) |
| W97 | ABC News Theme (1966) for piccolo, percussion and strings [0:20] |
| W98 | Morning Song for the Christ Child (1966) for unaccompanied SATB chorus (Text: Roger Covell) [3:00] Christmas Carol, commissioned by Faber Music; arrangemed from W92 South by Five |
| W99 | String Quartet No 7 (1966) [7:00] In a single movement Originally entitled: Teotihuacan (1966) for string quartet; later also entitled Red Landscape (1966) for string quartet (after a painting by Russell Drysdale); commissioned by the Yale Summer School of Music; FP: 29 Julu 1966, Music Shed, Norfolk [US], Yale String Quartet |
| W99a | Sun Music III (1966) for string orchestra Arrangement of W99 String Quartet No 7; commissioned by the Astra Chamber Music Society; FP: 18 November 1966, Melbourne, Astra String Orchestra, George Logie-Smith (conductor) |
1967
Sydney [AU]
| W100 | Sun Music III (1967) for orchestra [13:00] Originally entitled: Anniversary Music (1967) for orchestra; Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to mark the occasion of the twentieth anniversary in 1967 of Youth Concerts in Australia; FP: 16 May 1967, Winthrop Hall, Perth WA [AU], West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Heinze (conductor) "The program included one bona fide masterpiece ... [it] could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of the Far East, notably the Balinese gamelan, are juxtapose with wild string harmonics and incredibly subtle use of percussion, while long-breathed themes of utmost desolation place us square in the middle of the Outback." - Bill Zakariasen, Daily News [US] (25 January 1987) |
| W101 | Sun Music IV (1967) for orchestra [9:00] Commissioned by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Foundation for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's performances at Montreal Expo 67; FP: 29 May 1967, Town Hall, Melbourne VIC [AU]; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Willem van Otterloo (conductor) "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 and as striking as those we have seen in the field of painting. We must hear more of Sculthorpe." - Eric McLean, The Montreal Star (8 June 1967) |
1968
Sydney [AU]
The Hayes work numbers for 1968 have here been substantially reallocated to return the works to chronological order (GS 2009); for Hayes's W104 Two Easy Pieces now see 1970
| W102 | Autumn Song (1968) for unaccompanied SATB chorus (Text: Roger Covell) [3:00] [= Hayes's W105]; arrangement of movement from W92 South by Five; completed: February 1968; FP: Adelaide Festival, March 1968, Adelaide Singers, Patrick Thomas (conductor) |
| W103 | Tabuh Tabuhan (1968) for wind quintet and percussion [24:00] [= Hayes's W106]; commissioned under the terms of the First John Bishop Memorial Award, funded jointly by the Adelaide Festival Trust and Advertiser Newspapers Ltd; completed February 1968; FP: 20 March 1968, Fifth Adelaide Festival of Arts, Town Hall, Adelaide SA [AU], University of Adelaide Wind Quintet et al. "The colouring and musical turn of phrase are beautifully worked into an elaborate composition which brilliantly exploits the relevance of such techniques to modern music. A fine, atmospheric performance intensified my anxiety to hear this work again." - Stephen Walsh, The Times [UK] (11 March 1969) |
| W104 | Music for Mittagong or Fun Music (1968) for wind, strings and percussion and massed voices [= Hayes's W107]; commissioned by Musica Viva Society for the 1968 Mittagong Festival; FP: 14 April 1968, Mittagong NSW [AU], PS (conductor) |
| W105 | From Tabuh Tabuhan (1968) for strings and percussion [4:00] [= Hayes's W108]; commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in honour of the 86th Birthday of Igor Stravinsky; FP (recording): 2 May 1968, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas (conductor) |
| W106 | Age of Consent (1968) music for feature film by Michael Powell for chamber ensemble [= Hayes's W102]; film based on Norman Lindsay's novel of the same name; music composed: June-July 1968; film (starring Helen Mirren), premiered 27 March 1969, Brisbane |
| W107 | Sea Chant (1968) for unison voices and piano, opt parts for high instruments and percussion (Text: Roger Covell) [2:00] [= Hayes's W103]; originally theme from W84 The Splendour and the Peaks; arranged from version in W92 South by Five; completed mid 1968; published in Australian Journal of Music Education (October 1968) |
| W108 | Sun Music (1968) ballet for orchestra and voices [44:00] 1. Soil [= W94 Sun Music I]; 2. Mirage [ = W96 Sun Music (II) for voices and percussion]; 3. Growth [ = W100 Sun Music III; 4. [ = earlier version of W11o Sun Music II]; 5. Destruction [ = W101 Sun Music IV] [= Hayes's W109]; commissioned by the Australian Ballet, choreography by Robert Helpmann; FP: 2 August 1968, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney NSW [AU], Australian Elizabethan Trust Orchestra, Robert Rosen (conductor) |
| W109 | Music for Vietnam (1968) for string quartet [LOST] [not in Hayes]; FP: 7 October 1968, Arts Vietnam concert, Teachers Federation Hall, Sydney NSW [AU] |
1969
Sydney [AU]
| W110 | Sun Music II (1969) for orchestra [6:00] Originally Ketjak (1969) for orchestra; based on W108/4 above; written for the 1969 Sydney ABC Promenade Concerts; FP: 22 February 1969, Town Hall, Sydney NSW [AU], Sydney Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) "Conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption." - Conrad Wilson, The Scotsman [UK] (27 August 1984) |
| W111 | String Quartet No 8 (1969) [16:00] 1. Con dolore; Risoluto - Calmo - Risoluto; 3. Con dolore; 4. Con precisione; 5. Con dolore Original title: String Quartet Music (1969); commissioned by the Radcliffe Award Commission 1968; FP (judging): 31 October-1 November 1969, Sussex University, Brighton [UK], Allegri String Quartet; first public performance: 15 January 1970, Wigmore Hall, London [UK], Allegri String Quartet "[...] this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake [...] a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work." - Heuwell Tircuit, San Francisco Chronicle [US] (8 June 1986) "[...] one of his finest works [...] a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create music of great beauty and economy . the most convincing demonstration Sculthorpe has given us of his powerful originality of mind." - Kenneth Hince, The Australian [AU] (27 December 1971) |
1970
| W112 | Love 200 (1970) for voice, rock band and orchestra (Text: Tony Morphett) [18:00] 1. Prelude (orchestral); 2: It'll rise again; 3. Interlude (orchestral); 4. The Stars Turn; 5. Interlude (orchestral); 6. Love Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission [ABC] for the 1970 Promenade Season, Sydney; FP: 14 February 1970, Town Hall, Sydney NSW [AU]: Jeannie Lewis (voice), Tully (rock band), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) |
| W113 | Music for Japan (1970) for orchestra [12:00] Commissioned by the National Music Camp Association for performance at Expo 70, Osaka, Japan; FP: 25 May 1970, Town Hall, Melbourne VIC [AU], Australian Youth Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) "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 middle section for amplified percussion, strongly rhythmic and excitingly developed. There is one beautiful effect (repeated) when a swirling mass of sound comes out into a cloudless major chord on E; and the final chordal structure is a marvellously exultant terracing of orchestral sound." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (3 January 1971) |
| W114 | Dream (1970) for any instruments and any performers FP: 22 September 1970, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney NSW [AU]: Peter Richardson (flute), Jeannie Lewis (voice), Pro Musica Ensemble, PS (conductor) |
| W115 | Morning Song (1970) for string quartet [3:00] Arrangement of W98; FP: 1970, EMI recording, Sydney, Australia, Austral String Quartet |
| W116 | Rain (1970) for orchestra FP: 12 October 1970, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Janos Ferencsik |
| W117 | Overture for a Happy Occasion (1970) for orchestra [4:00] Arrangement of W112/6; FP: 16.11.70, Australia, Princess Theatre, Launceston, TAS [AU]; Australian Elizabethan Trust Sydney Orchestra, Dobbs Franks (conductor) |
| W117a | Two Easy Pieces (1970) for piano [4:00] 1. Sea Chant [arr. from W107]; 2. Left Bank Waltz [arr. from W70] [ = Hayes's W104]; these piano arrangements were prepared especially for the Australian Music Examination Board in late 1970, No 2 was issued shortly afterward in the AMEB Third Grade piano book (Allan & Co.) |
1971
Sydney [AU]
| W118 | Night Pieces (1971) for piano [7:00] 1. Snow; 2. Moon; 3. Flowers; 4. Night (arr. of W93); 5. Stars (arr. of W121/7) Nos 1-3 originally entitled Snow, Moon and Flowers (1971) for piano, commissioned by the Festival of Perth; FP (1-3 only): 28 February 1971, Octagon Theatre, University of Western Australia, Perth WA [AU], David Bollard (piano); first collected as a set of 5 in Faber edition, 1974/75 "Music of quality [...] delicate, harplike textures. They are evocative little sketches of a distinctly impressionistic kind." - Frank Dawes, The Musical Times [UK] (August 1975) |
| W119 | Landscape I (1971) for amplified piano with tape delay and pre-recorded tape loop [12:00] Originally Landscape (unnumbered); commissioned by the Festival of Perth; FP: 28 February 1971, Octagon Theatre, University of Western Australia, Perth WA [AU], David Bollard (piano) |
| W120 | Love 201 (1971) dance score for jazz-rock band and tape [LOST] FP: 21 May 1971, Aquarius Festival of University Arts, Playhouse, Canberra ACT [AU], Syrius (led by Jackie Orszaczky), with The Dance Company; choreography by Keith Little, design by Tim Storrier |
| W121 | How the Stars Were Made (1971) for percussion ensemble [10:00] 1. Prelude; 2. Sea; 3. Seashore; 4. Interlude; 5. Fire; 6. Interlude; 7. Stars Based on an Australian Aboriginal legend; originally for percussion sextet; later published edition for percussion quartet; commissioned by Musica Viva Australia for the Canberra Spring Festival; FP: 4 October 1971, Playhouse, Canberra ACT [AU], Les Percussions de Strasbourg |
1972
Sussex [UK]
| W122 | The Stars Turn (1972) for high voice and piano (Text: Tony Morphett) [5:00] Completed: Glynde, Sussex [UK], March 1972; Arrangement of W112/4; FP: 4 April 1972, Town Hall, Sydney NSW [AU], Jeannie Lewis (voice), Michael Carlos (piano) |
| W123 | The Stars Turn (1972) for high voice, strings and percussion |
| W124 | Ketjak (1972) for six male voices with tape delay [10:00] Unpublished; MS (autograph), NLA |
1973
Sydney [AU]
| W125 | Rites of Passage (1972-73), music theatre work for dancers, double SATB chorus, and orchestra [105:00] Text: Aboriginal, from Southern Aranda Poems; Commissioned by The Australian Opera; FP: 27 September 1974, Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW [AU]: Australian Opera Chorus, Australian Dance Theatre, Jaap Flier (director), Australian Elizabethan Trust Sydney Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) "Ritual, music, chant, dance, speech and song are all purposefully integrated into the work's conception and structure [...] so unlike any other opera we have ever seen." - Kevon Kemp, The National Times [AU] (October 1974) For the first time since the 1974 premiere, the 2009 Canberra International Festival of Music will present Rites of Passage complete in a newly revised concert version |
| W126 | Crimson Flower (1973) for gender wayang ensemble |
| W127 | Koto Music I (1973) for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape loop [7:00] Commissioned by the Australian Performing Right Association and Australian Broadcasting Commission; FP: 13 October 1973, Sydney Opera House, Roger Woodward (piano) |
1974
| W128 | Essington (1974) music for feature film for amplified piano with tape delay and rhythm sticks Script by Thomas Keneally; film score co-composed with Michael Hannan and David Matthews; based on an adaptation of the Aboriginal melody Djilile ("Whistling-duck on a billabong"), from a recording of the melody collected in northern Australia by A. P. Elkin in the late 1950s |
| W129 | The Song of Tailitnama (1974) for high voice, six cellos and percussion [11:00] Text: Aboriginal; FP: 6 May 1974, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne VIC [AU]: Halina Nieckarz (voice); Victorian College of the Arts Ensemble, John Hopkins (conductor) |
| W130 | Alpine (1974) music for television commercial for string quartet |
1975
| W131 | Sea Chant (1975) for unison voices and orchestra (Text: Roger Covell) [3:00] Arrangement of W107; FP: June 1975, Town Hall, Melbourne, Massed Children's Choir, Australian Youth Orchestra, John Hopkins (conductor) |
| W132 | String Quartet No 9 (1975) [15:00] In a single movement Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia; FP: 17 October 1975, Seymour Centre, Sydney NSW [AU], Austral String Quartet |
1976
| W133 | Koto Music II (1976) for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape loop [5:00] |
| W134 | Sun Song (1976) for recorder quartet [3:00] |
| W135 | Lament for Strings (1976) for string orchestra [10:00] For the Australian Chamber Orchestra; FP: 26 May 1976, City Hall, Wollongong NSW [AU]: Australian CO "a real highlight of the season ... miniature, economical with resources, but perfectly judged ... as contained as the emotions to which it related, not dramatic high tragedy but a sort of washed-out pain, with simple lyrical keening tones high up the solo instruments, like wires stretching towards breaking, then relaxing and fading." - Tom Sutcliffe, The Guardian [UK] (15 August 1992) |
| W136 | Small Town (1976) for small orchestra [6:00] [From W85 The Fifth Continent (1963)] |
| W137 | The Stars Turn (1976) for string orchestra [6:00] |
| W138 | Alone (1976) for solo violin [6:00] "ghostly, evokes an image of the outback beautifully." - The Wire [UK] (October 1995) |
| W139 | The Body is a Concert of Sensation (1976) Japanese poetry (trans. Graeme Wilson) for speakers and singer with music improvisation |
1977
| W140 | Colonial Dances (1977), arr. for two pianos |
| W141 | Little Serenade (1977) for string quartet [3:00] Arranged from theme song of W106 |
| W142 | Love Thoughts of a Lady (1977) Japanese poetry (trans. Graeme Wilson) for soprano, speaker and string quartet |
| W143 | Port Essington (1977) for string trio and string orchestra [15:00] 1. Prologue: The Bush; 2: Theme and Variations: The Settlement; 3. Phantasy: Unrest; 4. Nocturnal: Estrangement; 5. Arietta: Farewell; 6. Epilogue: The Bush Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia for the Australian Chamber Orchestra; based on an adaptation of an Aboriginal melody Djilile ("Whistling-duck on a billabong"), used previously in W128 Essington; a recording of the melody was collected in northern Australia by A. P. Elkin in the late 1950s; FP: 16 August 1977, Mayne Hall, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD [AU]: Australian CO "An absolutely sterling score, accessible yet boldly original, conceptually fascinating and musically compelling." - John Rockwell, The New York Times [US] (7 February 1988) |
1978
| W144 | Dua Chant (1978) for three recorders [2:00] |
| W145 | Landscape II (1978) for string trio and amplified piano [18:00] Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia; FP: 27.4.78, Australia, Queen Street Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney [AU]: New England Ensemble |
| W146 | Eliza Fraser Sings (1978) music theatre work for soprano, flute and piano (Text:Barbara Blackman) [22:00] Commissioned by the Lyric Arts Trio; FP: 29.4.78, Canada, New Music Concerts, Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto: Lyric Arts Trio |
| W147 | Exploration North (1978) music for television documentary series for string quartet |
1979
| W148 | The Stars Turn (arr. David Matthews) (1979) for unaccompanied mixed chorus (Text: Tony Morphett) [5:00] Arranged for Peter Sculthorpe on the occasion of his 50th birthday; FP: 13.4.79, Australia, Clubbe Hall, Mittagong: Leonine Consort |
| W149 | Four Little Pieces for Piano Duet (1979) [9:00] 1. Morning Song; 2. Sea Chant; 3. Little Serenade; 4. Left Bank Waltz FP: 28.4.79, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Julianne Reardon/Catherine Neale |
| W150 | Night Pieces (1979) for harp [7:00] Arr. of W118 |
| W151 | Koto Music (1979) for harp [12:00] Arr. of W127 and W133 |
| W152 | Mangrove (1979) for orchestra [14:00] FP: 27.4.79, Australia, Sydney Opera House, Sydney SO/Louis Frémaux; "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 percussion and all manner of aural colour presumably inspired by alien cultures. But Mr Sculthorpe is no simple-minded purloiner of sonic artifacts; his piece coheres into a statement by a distinctive composer with something interesting and evocative to say." - John Rockwell, The New York Times [US] (10 June 1984) |
| W153 | Requiem (1979) for cello alone [16:00] 1. Introit; 2. Kyrie; 3. Qui Mariam; 4. Lacrimosa; 5. Libera me; 6. Lux aeterna Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia for performance at the 1979 Mittagong Easter Festival; FP: 14.4.79, Australia, Clubbe Hall, Mittagong: Nathan Waks "draws its inspiration from plainsong and maintains a wonderful sense of space and stillness." - BBC Music Magazine (UK) (Helen Wallace) (October 1995) |
| W154 | Cantares (1979) for guitars and string quartet [20:00] FP: 16.1.80, Australia, Seymour Centre, Sydney: Peter Calvo/John Williams/Joe Pass/Sydney Spanish Guitar Centre Players/Petra String Quartet/Vincent Plush |
1980
| W155 | Manganinnie (1980) music for feature film for solo cello, string quartet and piano |
| W156 | Small Town (arr. David Matthews) (1980) for string quartet [7:00] |
| W157 | Boat Rise (arr. Michael Hannan) (1980) for high voice and piano [5:00] Text: Tony Morphett; arranged from W112/2; FP: 22.3.80, Australia, University Centre, Hobart: Helena Bury/Graeme Buchanan |
| W158 | The Visions of Captain Quiros (Guitar Concerto) (1980) for guitar and orchestra |
| W159 | Nocturne (1980) for guitar (from The Visions of Captain Quiros) |
| W160 | Overture (1980) for organ [4:00] FP: 21.11.80, Australia, Albert Hall, Launceston, Tasmania: Chris Ryland |
1981
| W161 | Nocturnal (1981) for solo piano |
| W162 | Mountains (1980) for solo piano [5:00] Commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981; FP: 4.7.81, Australia, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Gabriella Pusner |
| W163 | Tailitnama Song (1981) for chamber ensemble [5:00] FP: 15.5.81, Australia, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney: Seymour Group |
1982
| W164 | Quiros (1982) television opera for soloists, chorus, orchestra (Text: Brian Bell) [68:00] Commissioned by the ABC to mark the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary; FP: 1.7.82, ABC National TV/Brian Bell: Jon Weaving/Suzanne McLeod/Nance Grant/Gerald English/other soloists & chorus/Sydney SO/Myer Fredman |
| W165 | East of India (1982) for high voice and piano (from Quiros) (Text: Brian Bell) [3:00] |
| W166 | Three Pieces for Prepared Piano (1982) [3:00] |
1983
| W167 | Piano Concerto (1983) [23:00] Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for its fiftieth anniversary; dedicated to Helen and Ross Edwards; FP: 9.3.83, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Anthony Fogg/Melbourne SO/Myer Fredman "The Japanese and Indonesian elements in this concerto, the hardedged rippling keyboard, the straight hovering reeds, the mournful repeated fall on to the tonic from a semitone above.are more than geographical accident. Melancholic brutality and opulent bleakness are Sculthorpe essences reflected more in the East than in the West . it is uncompromising, communicative and unfailingly skilful." - Meredith Oakes, The Independent [UK] (15 March 1989) |
| W168 | String Quartet No 10 (1983) [14:00] 1. Sun Song; 2. Chorale; 3. Interlude; 4. Chorale; 5. Sun Song Movements 1, 3 and 5 arranged from W134 Sun Song; commissioned by the Kronos Quartet; FP: 8.4.83, USA, Veterans. Building, San Francisco: Kronos Quartet |
| W169 | Little Suite for Strings (1983) for string orchestra [10:00] 1. Sea Chant (arr. from W107); 2. Left Bank Waltz (arr. from W70); 3. Little Serenade (arr. from W141) FP: 22.9.83, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Australian Chamber Orchestra |
| W170 | First Sonata for Strings (1983) for string orchestra [14:00] 1. Sun Song; 2. Chorale; 3. Interlude; 4. Chorale; 5. Sun Song Originally Sonata for Strings (unnumbered); arrangement of W168 String Quartet No 10; commissioned by Musica Viva Australia; FP: 29.11.83, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Australian CO "had an unmistakable Australian accent in its throbbing phrases for low strings and in the dreamtime patience of drawn-out melodies, which can only be called, though the word is in disrepute among most contemporary composers, beautiful. This must be one of his most appealing works." - Fred Blanks, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (31 October 1986) |
1984
| W171 | The Song of Tailitnama (1984) for medium voice and piano [11:00] Based on W129; text: Aboriginal; FP: 9.9.84, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Elizabeth Campbell, Anthony Fogg |
| W172 | Sun Song (1984) for orchestra [5:00] Based on W134 Sun Song and W168 and W170 |
1985
| W173 | Burke and Wills (1985) music for feature film for orchestra |
| W174 | The Burke and Wills Waltzes (arr. David Matthews) (1985) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello [8:00] |
| W175 | Burke and Wills Suite (1985) for symphonic band FP: 11.11.85, Australia, Hoyts Cinema Centre, Melbourne: Victorian Naval Band |
| W176 | The Croquet Waltz (1985) for big band (1985) (from Burke and Wills) [5:00] Co-composed with David Matthews, from the film Burke and Wills; FP: 1.11.85, Australia, Southern Cross Hotel Ballroom, Melbourne |
| W177 | O Mistress Mine (1985) for symphonic band [2:00] Arrangement of W83/2 (from W64) |
| W178 | The Dream (1985) for string orchestra [3:00] Arrangement by PS of the aria "I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls" from Balfe's The Bohemian Girl (1843) |
1986
| W179 | Saibai (1986) for unison voices and organ Hymn tune based on a Saibai Island dance song, to text of a traditional Torres Strait Island hymn, translated by David Thompson and paraphrased by Wesley Milgate |
| W180 | Burke & Wills Suite (1985/86) for brass band [13:00] FP: 5.3.86, Australia, Adelaide Festival, St Peter's Cathedral, City of Elizabeth Brass Band, Glen Madden (conductor) |
| W181 | Earth Cry (1986) for orchestra [11:00] Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission; FP: 22.8.86, Australia, Festival Theatre, Adelaide: Adelaide SO/Jorge Mester "a sombre, impressive score with many passages of striking and original beauty. Haunting melodies, reiterated like some primitive incantation, seemed to speak, admittedly in an entirely indefinable way, with the authentic voice of this country." - Stephen Whittington, The Adelaide Advertiser [AU] (23 August 1986) |
| W182 | Djilile (1986) for cello and piano [4:00] Based on an adaptation, with additional material, of the Aboriginal melody Djilile ("Whistling-duck on a billabong"), used previously in W128 Essington and W143 Port Essington; a recording of the melody was collected in northern Australia by A. P. Elkin in the late 1950s; FP: 3.4.89, Australia, MOCA, Brisbane: members of the Queensland Piano Trio |
| W183 | Djilile (1986) for piano solo [6:00] FP: March 1986, Hungary, Budapest, Sonya Hanke (piano) |
| W184 | Autumn Song (1986) for string orchestra [3:00] Arrangement of W102 |
1987
| W185 | Songs of Sea and Sky (1987) for clarinet and piano [16:00] Commissioned by the School of Music, Yale University; FP: 15.10.87, USA, Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University; Richard Stoltzman/Irma Vallecillo; partly based on W179 Saibai "[...] deserves attention from every self-respecting clarinettist . the clarinet part sang the Torres Strait dance song from which the work is derived with a transcendent beauty suggesting a Mahlerian peace with the world." - David Vance, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (1 August 1988) |
| W186 | Songs of Sea and Sky (1987) for flute and piano [16:00] Arrangement of W185; FP: July 1987, Australia, MBS recording; Geoffrey Collins/David Miller |
| W187 | Ballad (1987) for soprano and soprano (arr. of original by William Vincent Wallace) [4:00] |
| W188 | Child of Australia (1987) for speaker, soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra (text: Thomas Keneally) [18:00] Commissioned by The Festival of Sydney and funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority; FP: 26.1.88, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Joan Carden/John Howard/Sydney Philharmonia Choir/Australian Youth Orchestra/Carlo Felice Cillario |
| W189 | Anthem from Child of Australia (1987) for chorus, SATB and piano (Text: Thomas Keneally) |
1988
| W190 | At the Grave of Isaac Nathan (1988) for orchestra [18:00] |
| W191 | Second Sonata for Strings (1988) for string orchestra [15:00] Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra; arrangement of W132 String Quartet No 9; FP: 19.5.88, UK, Brighton Festival, St Martin.s Church: Australian CO/Carl Pini "brings together the modern European school and the most ancient music of all, that of the Aborigines. It is a stunning amalgam, by turns fiercely urgent and gossamer-light." - Denis Butler, The Newcastle Herald [AU] (18 October 1989) |
| W192 | Kakadu (1988) for orchestra [15:00] Commissioned by Emanuel Papper as a present for his wife upon her birthday; FP: 24.7.88, USA, Aspen Festival, Music Tent, Aspen: Aspen Festival Orchestra/Jorge Mester "Kakadu is essentially a big, romantic piece stated in 20th-century terms. I suspect it will turn up regularly as orchestras look for music that is out of the ordinary yet acceptable to their listeners." - Glenn Giffin, The Denver Post [US] (28 July 1988) "a score full of beautiful sounds and striking invention." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (10 April 1989) |
| W193 | The Birthday of Thy King (1988) for unaccompanied mixed chorus (Text:Henry Vaughan) [5:00] Christmas carol; also entitled (after first line): Awake Glad Heart (1988); FP: 24.12.88, UK, Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols, King's College, Cambridge: King's College Choir/Stephen Cleobury |
1989
| W194 | Tailitnama Song (1986) for cello and piano [6:00] FP: March 1989, Australia, MBS recording: David Pereira/Geoffrey Tozer |
| W195 | It's You (arr. of George Gershwin songs) (1989) for SATB chorus [9:00] |
| W196 | Jabiru Dreaming (1989) for percussion ensemble of four players [8:00] Originally entitled: Sun Song (1989) for percussion ensemble FP: 1.6.89, France, SACEM, Paris: Synergy |
| W197 | Callabonna (1989) for solo piano [4:00] Revised version of first movement of W87 Sonata for Piano (1963); FP: 30.7.89, Australia, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne: Linda Kouvaras |
| W198 | Nocturnal (1989) for solo piano [7:00] Revised version of Notturno (Cadenza) from W167 Piano Concerto; FP: 30.7.89, Australia, Move recording: Robert Chamberlain |
| W199 | The Rose Bay Quadrilles (1989) for solo piano (arr. from originals by William Stanley, 1856) [5:00] FP: 1989, Australia, Move recording: Gudrun Beilharz |
| W200a | Beautiful Fresh Flower (by Percy Grainger: 1935; arr. 1989) for strings and percussion [3:00] |
| W200b | Beautiful Fresh Flower (by Percy Grainger: 1935; arr. 1989) for string quartet |
| W200c | Faeroe Island Song (by Percy Grainger: 1946; arr. 1989) for strings and percussion [3:00] |
| W201 | Nourlangie (1989) concerto for solo guitar, percussion and string orchestra [20:00] Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra; FP: 24.10.89, Australia, Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane: John Williams/ Michael Askill/Australian CO/Richard Hickox "A mood piece for solo guitar, strings and percussion, [it] provoked something close to rapture ..." - Denis Butler, The Newcastle Herald [AU] (31 October 1989) "Sculthorpe is a landscaper, a painter and designer in sounds, a musical visionary." - Klaus Geitel, Die Welt [Berlin DE] (20 July 1996) |
1990
| W202 | Child of Australia (1990) for symphonic band (1990) [18:00] |
| W203 | Djilile (1990) for percussion ensemble [7:00] FP: 7.3.90, Australia, Adelaide Festival, Elder Hall, Adelaide SA [AU], Synergy |
| W204 | String Quartet No 11 (Jabiru Dreaming) (1990) [15:00] Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia; FP: 10.3.90, Australia, Adelaide Festival, Town Hall, Adelaide: Kronos Quartet "Conjuring images not just of the sounds and rhythms of the aboriginal residents but the natural ethos of the landscape as well, the score was as richly colourful as it was faultlessly performed." - Daniel Buckley, The Tucson Citizen [US] (5 March 1991) |
| W205 | Haughty Sortie (1990) for unison voices and piano [2:00] |
| W206 | Little Nourlangie (1990) for organ and orchestra Commissioned by the Education Program of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for performance at Schools. Concerts during 1990; FP: 6.6.90, Australia, Town Hall, Sydney: David Rumsey/Sydney SO/John Hopkins |
| W207 | Irkanda IV (1990) for flute and string trio [11:00] Arrangement of W80; FP: 30.8.90, Australia, Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane: Australia Ensemble |
1991
| W208 | Nangaloar (1991) for orchestra [10:00] |
| W209 | Irkanda IV (1991) for string quartet [11:00] FP: 14.9.91, Australia, Concert Hall, Perth, Kronos Quartet |
| W210 | A Sun Song for Eric (1991) for alto recorder, violin and cello [2:30] |
| W211 | Lament (1991) for solo cello and strings [10:00] FP: 22.9.91, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Raphael Wallfisch/Australian Chamber Orchestra |
| W212 | Tailitnama Song (1991) for violin and piano [6:00] Arrangement of W163; FP: 27.10.91, Australia, Australian Music Centre, Sydney: Kirsty Beilharz/Ross Hamilton |
| W213 | Second Impromptu (by Miska Hauser, Sydney, 1857; ed. Simon Docking and Peter Sculthorpe) (1991) for piano solo [5:00] |
| W214 | Kooee (by Isaac Nathan, Sydney, 1849; arr. Sculthorpe) (1991) for string quartet [3:30] |
| W215 | National Country Dances (by Frederick Ellard, Sydney, 1854; arr. Sculthorpe) (1991) for piano solo |
| W216 | From Uluru (1991) for orchestra [4:00] Commissioned by the Education program of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for performance at Schools Concerts during 1992; FP: 11.12.91, Australia, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney: Sydney SO/Peter Grunberg |
| W217 | Threnody (1991-92) for solo cello [7:00] "In memoriam Stuart Challender"; commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; FP: 20.12.91, Australia, Town Hall, Sydney: David Pereira; also recorded by Patricia Pollett as Threnody for solo viola |
1992
| W218 | Hill-Song No 1 (1992) for string quartet [3:00] FP: 7.3.92, Australia, Jessen Lodge, Longford, Tasmania: Matthews Tyson String Quartet |
| W219 | Irkanda IV (1992) arr. for flute and string quartet [11:00] FP: 1.2.92, Belgium, Brussels: Australia Ensemble |
| W220 | Jabiru Dreaming (1992) for percussion quartet (1992) This work consist of an arr. of the first movement of W204 String Quartet No 11, followed by, as second movement, the percussion work W196 Sun Song; FP (recording): December 1992, Sydney, ABC Recording Studio, Synergy |
| W221 | Dream Tracks (1992) for violin, clarinet and piano [15:00] Commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and funded by Michigan State University; FP: 31.10.92, USA, San Diego, CA: Verdehr Trio "A haunting 15-minute work filled with Messiaen-like mysticism." - John Gunn, American Record Guide [US] (January/February 1994) |
| W222 | Tropic (1992) for clarinet, violin, 2 guitars, double bass and percussion [15:00] FP: 23.5.92, UK, Brighton Festival, Town Hall, Hove: Attacca |
| W223 | Awake, Glad Heart (1992) for two trumpets and strings [3:00] Arr. of W193; FP: July 1992, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: Australian Youth Orchestra/Graham Abbott |
| W224 | Simori (1992) for solo cello [8:00] |
After the last of the works in Hayes's 1993 list, W224 above, the composer and his secretary, Adrienne Levenson, and his successive music assistants John Peterson and Peggy Pollias have continued, and continue, to apply W numbers to newly completed works in what is usually strict chronological order of completion.
1993
| W225 | From Nourlangie (1993) for piano, violin, viola and cello [4:00] FP: 8.4.93, UK, Purcell Room, London: The Schubert Ensemble of London |
| W226 | From Saibai (1993) for violin and piano [11:00] FP: 3.4.93, Australia, Dame Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith: Benjamin Breen/Elisaveta Blumina |
| W227 | Night Song (1993) for clarinet, violin and piano [6:00] FP: 17.10.95, USA, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall Building, New York City: Verdehr Trio |
| W228 | The Stars Turn (1993) for soprano and piano (Text:Tony Morphett) [5:00] Arr. of W112/4 |
| W229 | The Stars Turn (1993) for soprano, cello and piano (Text:Tony Morphett) [6:00] Arr. of W112/4; FP: 1993, Australia, Vox Australis recording: Marilyn Richardson/ Susan Blake/David Miller |
| W230 | Memento Mori (1993) for orchestra [14:00] Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and dedicated to the memory of Edna Sculthorpe; FP: 2.7.93, Australia, Concert Hall, Perth: West Australian SO/Jorge Mester "It is a piece imbued with a religious aura, rooted in a particular landscape.barren, mysterious Easter Island, with its enormous, brooding, enigmatic statues. And it is full of tunes, most notably the ancient plainchant Dies irae, which has been used by many classical composers but seldom with the blend of reverence and coloristic effectiveness Sculthorpe has achieved. It was marvellously effective music, innovative in sound but listener friendly." - Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post [US] (14 October 1994) "One of his most immediately appealing scores. Despite its sombre title it does not dwell on sorrows but seems rather to rise above them. 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 great folly, for their making and transportation deforested and impoverished the island. Sculthorpe's music reflects this dichotomy; it begins darkly, in the manner of his earlier work Mangrove, but it progresses steadily to a much warmer and richer sound palette. There are some hauntingly beautiful melodies and striking tonal contrasts. Some play is made of the plainchant Dies irae but this is not overdone and the whole thing ends on a note of quiet resolution that's absolutely right." - Laurie Strachan, The Australian [AU] (22 October 1993) |
| W231 | From Kakadu (1993) for solo guitar [11:00] Commissioned by the Shell Darwin International Guitar Festival with assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australian Council and dedicated to John Williams; FP: 8.7.93, Australia, Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Australia: John Williams |
| W232 | Lament (1993) for string sextet [10:00] FP: 19.8.93, UK, Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School: Brodsky Quartet/Susan Monks (cello)/Mary Scully (double bass) |
| W233 | Hill-Song No 2 (1993) for string quartet [3:00] FP (of No 2): 1995, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: Goldner String Quartet |
| W234 | Into the Dreaming (1993) for solo cello [3:00] Originally titled Cello Dreaming, and subsequently For Cello Alone; dedicated to Lilian Peart; FP: 17.10.93, Australia, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney: David Pereira "Brief though it is, it has a moving intensity that recalls some of Sculthorpe.s earliest music; in recent years he has rarely let us hear the impulse of heartbreak so directly." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (19 October 1993) |
| W235 | From Saibai (1993) for cello and piano [11:00] FP: 1999, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: David Pereira |
1994
| W236 | Third Sonata for Strings (Jabiru Dreaming) (1994) for string orchestra [14:00] 1. Deciso; 2. Liberamente - Estatico Arr. from W204 String Quartet No 11 (1990); FP: 10.7.93, Australia, Kakadu National Park: Darwin SO/Martin Jarvis |
| W237 | The Stars Turn (1994) for counter-tenor and piano (Text: Tony Morphett) [6:00] Arr. of W112/4 |
| W238 | String Quartet No 12 (From Ubirr) (1994) [12:00] Formerly Earth Cry arranged for string quartet (or string quartet and optional didjeridu) FP: 19.7.94, UK, Barbican Hall, London: Kronos Quartet/David Coulter "The arrival of a white didjeridu player, David Coulter, to join the quartet, looked like a Kronos contrivance. To start, it buzzed away on its bass note as the strings rhapsodized. Sculthorpe made his getaway from post-War modernism early enough to be utterly secure in his language now, making many younger escapees sound nervous and contrived by comparison. The lyrical flow, ever changing yet always the same, drew playing of full-hearted passion." - Robert Maycock, The Independent [UK] (25 July 1994) |
| W238a | The Song of Tailitnama (1994) for counter-tenor and piano (Text: Aboriginal) [11:00] |
| W238b | The Song of Tailitnama (1994) for soprano and piano (Text: Aboriginal) [11:00] |
| W239 | Martin, You're Fifty! (1994) for flute, cello, piano and percussion [2:30] For Martin Wesley-Smith |
| W240 | From Nourlangie (1994) for clarinet, violin and piano [4:00] FP: 17.10.95, USA, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall Building, New York City: Verdehr Trio |
| W241 | From Nourlangie (1994) for soprano (vocalise), viola, cello and piano [5:00] FP: 1.9.94, UK, Australia House, London: Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble |
| W242 | Chorale (1994) for eight cellos [5:00] FP: 28.8.94, UK, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Bradenstoke Hall, St Donats Castle: Lontano/Odaline de la Martinez |
| W243 | Little Serenade (1994) for string orchestra [3:00] Arranged from theme song of W106 and W141 |
| W244 | Into the Dreaming (1994) for solo guitar [6:00] FP: 23.2.94, UK, Wigmore Hall, London: John Williams "Sculthorpe's extraordinary ability to make even the simplest idea generate an almost tactile atmosphere which resonates long in the memory is at its most potent here." - Simon Hodges, CD Review [AU] (October 1994) |
| W245 | From Kakadu (1994) for solo harp [11:00] |
| W246 | Into the Dreaming (1994) for solo harp [6:00] |
| W247 | From Nourlangie (1994) for string quartet [4:00] FP: 23.8.94, UK, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major: Brodsky Quartet |
| W248 | Saibai (1994) for string quartet [3:00] FP: 1995, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: Goldner String Quartet |
1995
| W249 | Darwin Marching (1995) for solo trumpet and orchestra [5:00] Commissioned by the Darwin SO and written especially for the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of Cyclone Tracey; FP: 18.2.95, Australia, Northern Territory Parliament House: Darwin SO/Martin Jarvis |
| W250 | Djilile (1995) Consort music for five viols [7:00] Commissioned by the South Bank Centre for the Purcell Tercentenary; FP: 2.5.95, UK, Purcell Room, London: Fretwork |
| W251 | Night Song (1995) for violin, cello and piano [6:00] FP: 1997, Australia, Move recording: Melbourne Trio |
| W252 | Turtle and Temple Gong (1995) for solo organ |
| W253 | An Australian Anthem (1995) for brass septet [4:00] Arr. from W188 Child of Australia; FP: 1995, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble |
| W254 | The Stars Turn (1995) for soprano, clarinet and piano (Text: Tony Morphett) [6:00] Arr. of W112/4 |
| W255 | Anne (1995) for solo piano [1:00] |
| W256 | Simori (1995) for flute and guitar [10:00] Commissioned by the Darwin International Guitar Festival; FP: 7.7.95, Australia, Concert Hall, Northern Territory University, Darwin: Gerhard Mallon/Julian Byzantine |
| W257 | Simori (1995) for solo piano [11:00] FP: 29.7.95, UK, Deal Festival, Astor Theatre: Ian Munro |
| W258 | Parting (1995) for cello and piano [3:00] Arr. of W22 (1947); FP: 22.12.95, Australia, Town Hall, Sydney: Nathan Waks/Kathryn Selby |
| W258a | Parting (1995) for voice and and piano (Text: Heinrich Heine) [3:00] Originally titled Afterward, With Us (1995) for voice and piano; arr. of W22 (1947); FP: 5.11.95, Australia, Eugene Goossens Hall: Gerald English/Ian Munro |
| W259 | Nourlangie (1995) (arr. Barton Staggs) for guitar and chamber ensemble [20:00] |
1996
| W260 | Music for Japan (1970/1996) for orchestra with didjeridu [14:00] Version with added didjeridu of W113 Music for Japan (1970) |
| W261 | Psalm 150 (1996) for treble voices and optional voices and/or instruments (Text: Latin) [6:00] FP: 27.10.96, Australia, Launceston C of E Grammar School, Tasmania: student orchestra and choir |
| W262 | Djilile (1996) for chamber orchestra [5:00] FP: June 1996, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Tasmanian SO/ David Porcelijn |
| W263 | Night Song (1996) for string orchestra [6:00] FP: June 1996, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn |
| W264 | Little Requiem (1996) for koto and string orchestra |
| W265 | Port Arthur: In Memoriam (1996) for oboe or trumpet and strings [4:00] FP: 24.6.96, Australia, Government House, Hobart, Tasmania: Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn |
| W266 | Advance Australia Fair (1996) for string orchestra [3:00] Commissioned by the Commonwealth of Australia, acting through the Department of Administrative Services, Canberra FP: 9.10.96, Australia, ABC recording: Sydney SO/David Stanhope |
| W267 | String Quartet No 13 (Island Dreaming) (1996) for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (Text: Torres Strait Island) [11:00] FP: 3.12.96, France, Cité de la Musique, Paris: Anne Sofie von Otter/Brodsky Quartet "From beginning to end a near-wordless rhapsody on the morning star and the waking of the day. The drifting voice, full of mezzo colour above a hypnotic web of instrumental pattern, conveyed a mood of quietly natural ecstasy. At one point, an episode of trios and duets between singer, viola and cello offered a reflective pause for thought. Yet the flow remained seamless, painting a continuum of experience to be enjoyed, without thought, through the senses and the feelings." - Nicholas Williams, The Independent [UK] (10 December 1996) "Aboriginal in inspiration and language, with low, dark vocalise and finely imagined string writing, drawing out a rapt, 12-minute marine songline." - Hilary Finch, The Times [UK] (11 December 1996) |
| W268 | Maranoa Lullaby (1996) for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (Words: Aboriginal) [3:00] FP: 26.11.96, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Kirsti Harms/Goldner Quartet |
| W269 | Beautiful Fresh Flower (by Percy Grainger, arr. Peter Sculthorpe) (1996) for string quartet [3:00] |
| W270 | Autumn Song (1996) for string quartet [3:00] FP: 1997, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: Goldner String Quartet |
| W271 | Little Song (1996) for string quartet [1:00] Arrangement of W26 Aspatia's Song (1947); also titled Little Song from String Quartet No 1 FP: 22.10.97: UK, Wigmore Hall, London: Goldner String Quartet |
| W271a | To Meadows (1996) for string quartet [2:30] Arrangement of W23 To Meadows (1947); also titled To Meadows from String Quartet No 3 |
| W271b | Pastorale (1996) for string quartet [5:00] Revised version of W47/2 (1950); also titled Pastorale from String Quartets Nos 3 and 4 |
| W271c | Prologue (1996) for string quartet ("from String Quartet No 5") [3:00] FP: 1995, Australia, Tall Poppies recording: Goldner String Quartet; strictly speaking this is a prologue "to", rather than "from" the Fifth Quartet of 1959; it was newly composed in 1996 for the Tall Poppies recording based in part on material from W76a Sun (1960) |
1997
| W272 | Tailitnama Song (1997) for solo cello [6:00] |
| W273 | Two Easy Pieces (1997) for flute and piano [4:00] 1. Sea Chant; 2. Left Bank Waltz |
| W274 | Love Song (1997) for guitar and string orchestra [7:00] Commissioned by the Darwin International Guitar Festival; FP: 12.7.97, Australia, Grounds of the MGM Grand Hotel, Darwin: John Williams/Darwin SO/Martin Jarvis |
1998
| W275 | A Little Book of Hours (1998) for solo piano [7:00] Dedicated to Martin Kingsbury; FP: 6.8.98, UK, Deal Festival, Astor Theatre: Jean Hasse |
| W276 | String Quartet No 14 (Quamby) (1998) [18:00] Commissioned by Launceston Chamber Music Society; FP: 5.3.98, Australia, Novotel, Tasmania: Goldner String Quartet |
| W277 | Cello Dreaming (1998) for solo cello, string orchestra and percussion [18:00] Commissioned by the BBC especially for the Opening Concert of the Manchester Cello Festival; FP: 29.4.98, UK, Manchester Cello Festival, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester: Steven Isserlis/ BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier "Isserlis spun what was almost a plainsong at times over sumptuously atmospheric string textures, which conjured the big landscapes Down Under, with echoes of bird-song and even didjeridus. It's the sort of exhilarating stuff, I'm afraid, that gets modern music a good name." - David Harrison, Manchester Evening News [UK] (30 April 1998) |
| W278 | Great Sandy Island (1998) for orchestra [20:00] 1. The Sea Coast; 2. The Boro-ground; 3. The Rain-forest; 4. The Garrison; 5. Dune Dreaming Commissioned by Suntory Ltd for the Suntory International Program for Music Composition; FP: 13.10.98, Japan, Suntory Hall, Tokyo: Tokyo City PO/Kazufumi Yamashita "Every motive and melody is limned carefully and put to hard work; the scoring is full of gestures and devices familiar from the Sun Musics; the five sections are clearly delineated the whole constitutes a score as emotionally direct as anything else that Sculthorpe has produced for full orchestra ... music full of gusto and instantly assimilable." - Clive O'Connell, The Age [AU] (28 May 1999) |
| W279 | For Justine (1998) for solo cello [2:00] FP: 25.8.98, UK, Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School: Philip Sheppard |
| W280 | Gershwin Arrangements (1998) for string quartet [9:00] |
| W281 | Love Thoughts (1977/1998) music theatre work for soprano, female speaker, koto and string quartet (Text in Japanese and English) [45:00] Text: poems translated by Graeme Wilson, from the Manyoshu ("Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves"), a 4,500-poem imperial anthology from the 7th century (Japanese/English); commissioned by the Seymour Group with assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council; FP: 1.6.96, Australia, The Gallery, Japan Cultural Centre, North Sydney: Sydney Metropolitan Opera/Seymour Group/Akiko Nakajima/Angela Punch McGregor "Seemed to distil aspects of his vocabulary with the shrewd economy of utterance of a style carefully honed. The instrumental prelude was simple and transparent to the point of primitivism, while the simplicity of the first song, first unaccompanied, then brushed lightly with the wispy sounds of glass on the silk strings of the koto (producing the characteristic estuary birdsong which in various instrumental manifestations has invaded many of Sculthorpe's pieces ... the prevailing gentleness and quietness seemed vintage Sculthorpe." - Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (15 March 1999) |
1999
| W282 | Rockpool Dreaming (1999) for soprano saxophone and strings [4:00] FP: 5.2.99: Australia, City Hall, Newcastle, NSW: Claude Delangle/Australian CO "A supple, gently pulsing invention. It is a thought caught on a breeze and comes into focus just long enough for us to wish to catch it again." - Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald [AU] (18 February 1999) |
| W283 | From Irkanda III (1961/1999) for piano trio [6:00] FP: 19.7.99, Australia, The Studio, Sydney Opera House: Eclectic Collective |
| W284 | String Quartet No 15 (1999) [16:00] 1. A Song for Dancing; 2. An Exorcism; 3. A Song of Mourning; 4. A Love Song; 5. A Song for Feasting Completed: "Sydney, January 1999"; commissioned by the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition; FP: 10.7.99, Australia, Melba Hall, Melbourne: Coolidge Quartet |
| W285 | Love Song (1999) for guitar and string quartet [6:00] FP: 21.8.99, Australia, Sydney Opera House: Slava Grigoryan/Goldner Quartet |
| W286 | My Country Childhood (1999) for string orchestra [16:00] 1. Song of the Hills; 2. A Church Gathering; 3. A Village Funeral; 4. Song of the River Commissioned by the Adelaide SO and performed in celebration of Peter Sculthorpe's 70th birthday year; FP: 23.9.99, Australia, Adelaide: Adelaide SO/Marco Zuccarini "Its rich sonorities are cunningly deployed for the medium, solo lines emerging from wide-spaced chords in a score full of subtle touches ... will no doubt be seized upon by string ensembles as a welcome addition to the repertoire." - Tristram Cary, The Australian [AU] (1 October 1999) |
| W287 | Gondwana Land (1999) for string orchestra [14:00] Commissioned by the English String Orchestra and Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, with additional funding from Australia Council, West Midlands Arts and ESO Friends; FP: 22.10.99, UK, Malvern Theatres New Space, Malvern: English String Orchestra/William Boughton |
| W288 | A Little Love Song (1999) for string quartet [3:00] FP: 9.3.01, UK, Cabot Hall, London: Brodsky Quartet |
| W289 | Earth Cry (abridged version) (1999) for orchestra [6:00] FP: 31.12.99, Australia, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia: West Australian SO/Guy Noble |
2000
| W290 | Djilile (2000) for string quartet [6:00] |
| W291 | Harbour Dreaming (2000) for piano [6:00] Original title: Between Five Bells (2000) for piano; Commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia [SIPCA] FP: July 2000, Australia, Sydney International Piano Competition |
| W292 | Saibai (2000) for unison voices and drums [2:00] |
| W293 | Song for a Penny (2000) for solo piano (shorter version) [1:30] Dedicated to Adrienne Levenson; FP: 2000, Australia, soundtrack for film The Beach, directed by Don Featherstone: Peter Sculthorpe (piano) |
| W294 | Song for a Penny (2000) for solo piano (longer version) [2:30] |
| W295 | The Beach (2000) music for television documentary film (using already-existing works) |
| W296 | New Norcia (2000) for brass and percussion [7:00] FP: 2000, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Adelaide SO/James Judd |
| W296a | Quamby (2000) for chamber orchestra [23:00] 1. Prelude; 2. In the valley; 3. From High Hills (originally "On High Hills"); 4: At Quamby Bluff Arr. of W276 String Quartet No 14; FP: 2000, Australia, ABC Classics recording: Adelaide SO/James Judd |
| W297 | Parting (2000) for viola and piano [3:00] Arr. of W22 (1947) and W258 (1995) |
| W298 | Tailitnama Song (2000) for viola and piano [6:00] |
| W299 | Three Shakespeare Songs (2000) for voice and piano (Text: William Shakespeare) [5:00] Arrangement of earlier originals (1948/1956); FP: 28.7.00, Australia, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne: Ayesha Richardson/Glen Riddle |
| W300 | Reef Singing (2000) for clarinet and piano [2:30] |
| W301 | From the River (2000) for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano [5:00] |
| W302 | Tailitnama Song (2000) for solo viola [6:00] |
2001
| W303 | Viola Song (2001) for piano and string quartet [3:00] Commissioned by Musica Viva, in honour of the CEO of Mercantile Mutual, Rod Atfield's retirement FP: 20.10.01, City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia: Pascal Rogé/Ysaye Quartet |
| W304 | Music for Federation (2001) for orchestra [22:00] Commissioned by the Melbourne Festival as part of the Federation Festival, May 2001; First performance: 9.5.01, Australia, Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra: Melbourne SO/Markus Stenz |
| W305 | Landscapes (2001) for solo voice and optional bass instruments (Text: Judith Wright) [3:00] Commissioned by the New South Wales Department of Public Works and Services for performance at ceremonies at the Volunteers Memorial, Lady Macquarie's Chair, Sydney; FP: 3.6.01, Volunteers Memorial, Sydney, Australia: Toni Powell |
| W306 | Sonatina for Bassoon and Piano (1946/2001) Reconstruction of W19a (1946); FP: 8.8.01, International Double Reed Society Conference, Morgantown, University of West Virginia, USA: Wendy Cooper |
| W307 | Djilile (2001) for string orchestra [6:00] Written for the Australian Chamber Orchestra First performance: June 2001, Chandos recording sessions, Sydney, Australia: Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti |
| W308 | Sonata for Cello and Percussion (2001) [12:00] Revised arrangement of W77 Sonata for Viola and Percussion (1960) |
| W309 | Soliloquy and Cadenza (2001) for solo cello [5:00] |
| W310 | Looking Back (2001) for violin, viola, cello and double bass [2:00] FP: 21 November 2001, Malcolm Williamson's 70th birthday concert, Wigmore Hall, London [UK] |
2002
| W311 | Sometimes When I'm Dreaming (2002) for solo piano [2:00] After setting of Catherine Duncan lyric W67a (1957) |
| W312 | Out the Back (2002) (by Tim Freedman; arr. Sculthorpe) for voice and string quintet (Text: Tim Freedman) [8:00] |
| W313 | Sydney Singing (2002) for oboe and piano [15:00] Commission: Commissioned jointly by the Cheltenham and Sydney Festivals; First performance: 6.07.02, UK, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham: Nicholas Daniel/Julius Drake |
| W314 | Darwin Calypso (2002) for two guitars and strings [7:30] Includes arrangement of calypso from W68 (Manic Espresso) |
| W315 | Darwin Calypso (2002) for two guitars [7:30] |
| W316 | Sea Chant (2002) for two guitars [2:30] |
| W317 | Burke and Wills Suite (2002) for orchestra [17:00] This arrangement was made especially for the Darwin Symphony Orchestra; first performance: 4-8.7.03, Australia, ASME XIV National; Conference, Northern Territory University: Darwin Symphony Orchestra |
| W318 | Parting (2002) for flute and piano [3:00] |
| W319 | From High Hills (2002) for orchestra [5:30] Arranged from W296a/3 (On High Hills); First performance: 4.12.02, recording session, Tasmania: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Richard Mills |
| W320 | Advance Australia Fair (2002) for violin and viola [1:40] |
| W320a | Advance Australia Fair (2002) for violin and cello [1:40] First performance: 6.12.02, Finnish Embassy, Canberra, Australia: Seppo Kimanen/Yoshiko Arai |
2003
| W321 | Out the Back (by Tim Freedman, arr. Sculthorpe) (2003) for voice, strings and percussion (Text: Tim Freedman) [9:44] |
| W322 | Ease of the Midnight Visit (by Tim Freedman, arr. Sculthorpe) (2003) for voice, strings and percussion (Text: Tim Freedman) [4:30] |
| W323 | Sydney Singing (2003) for clarinet, percussion, harp and strings [17:00] First performance: 12.8.03, Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney, Australia: SBS Youth Orchestra/Matthew Krel |
| W324 | Lullaby (2003) for unaccompanied SATB chorus (Text: Aboriginal) [8:00] |
| W325 | From Ubirr (2003) for strings and optional didjeridu [12:00] This arrangement of W238 was made especially for William Barton and the Queensland Orchestra; First performance: 2003 recording session with Queensland Orchestra/Michael Christie |
| W326 | Advance Australia Fair (2003) for orchestra [3:00] |
| W327 | Beethoven Variations (2003) for orchestra |
| W328 | From Oceania (2003) for orchestra [5:30] |
| W329 | Songs of Sea and Sky (2003) for strings and optional didjeridu [16:30] |
| W330 | Songs of Sea and Sky (2003) for soprano saxophone and piano [16:00] |
| W331 | It'll Rise Again (arr. John Peterson) (2003) for voice, percussion and strings (Text: Tony Morphett) [6:30] Arrangement of W112/2 |
| W332 | Quamby (2003) for orchestra with optional didjeridu [21:00] Arr. of W296a (from W276); FP: 29.4.06, Boulder, CO, USA: William Barton (didjeridu)/Boulder PO/Theodore Kuchar |
| W333 | Djilile (arr. Steve Wingfield) (2003) for solo guitar [6:00] |
2004
| W334 | Requiem (2004) for mixed chorus, didjeridu and orchestra (Text in Latin and Aboriginal) [45:00] 1. Introit; 2. Kyrie; 3. Gradual; 4. Sequence; 5. Canticle; 6. Sanctus; 7. Agnus Dei; 8. Communion Commission: Commissioned by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (through Symphony Australia with funds provided by the Australia Council); the Adelaide Festival of Arts, and the Lichfield Festival (with funds provided by the Festival Millenium Membership Scheme); First performance: 3.3.04: Adelaide Town Hall: William Barton/Adelaide Symphony Orchestra/Adelaide Chamber Singers/Adelaide Voices (dir. Carl Crossin)/Richard Mills |
| W335 | Requiem (2004) vocal score for mixed chorus and piano (text in Latin and Aboriginal) [45:00] |
| W336 | Little Passacaglia (2004) for solo piano [3:00] Written for Ananda Sukarlan First performance: 12.7.04, APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards Ceremony, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia: Ananda Sukarlan |
| W337 | Lorin's Piece (2004) for voice and didjeridu [1:30] |
| W338 | Night Song (2004) for horn, cello and piano [6:00] |
| W339 | At Bondi Beach (2004) for oboe and piano [2:30] |
| W340 | Koori Dreaming (2004) for descant recorder and guitar [2:15] FP: 20.10.04: Downing College, Cambridge, UK: John Turner/Craig Ogden |
| W341 | Music for Bali (2004) for strings and percussion [4:00] |
| W342 | Requiem (2004) for children's voices and piano Arr. from W334 |
| W343 | Port Arthur: In Memoriam (arr. Joe Cook) (2004) for wind band [4:00] |
2005
| W344 | Songs of Sea and Sky (2005) for solo violin, strings and optional didjeridu [16:30] |
| W345 | Small Town (2005) (arr. Bill McAllister) for wind band [6:00] |
| W346 | Little Suite (2005) (arr. David Polain) for wind band [10:00] |
| W347 | Serenade (2005) for solo violin [1:20] Serenade was lovingly written as a wedding gift for Jenifer Wakelyn and David Matthews; FP: 23.7.05: Burgh House, Hampstead, London, UK: Peter Sheppard |
| W348 | A Song for Fé (2005) for viola and piano [5:00] Written for Don Ross/Cecile Ross (viola), Diego Silva (piano); FP: 2.7.05: Australian Chamber Orchestra Rehearsal Studio: Cecile Ross/Diego Silva |
| W349 | An Australian Anthem (2005) for brass quintet [4:00] |
| W350 | String Quartet No 16 (2005) [18:00] 1. Loneliness; 2. Anger; 3. Yearning; 4. Trauma; 5. Freedom Completed: Sydney, August 2005; revised June 2006; commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Julian Burnside QC; FP: 5.11.05: Musica Viva 2005: Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Tokyo String Quartet |
| W351 | A Song for Richard (2005) for violin and piano [3:00] |
2006
| W352 | Baltimore Songlines (2006) for clarinet, violin and piano [17:00] Commissioned by Michigan State University, and The Embassy of Australia, Washington and written for the Verdehr Trio; FP: 26 October 2006, The National Aquarium, Baltimore, USA: Verdehr Trio |
| W353 | Beethoven Variations (2003/2006) for orchestra with optional didjeridu |
| W354 | Elegy (2006) for viola and strings [17:30] Commissioned by Arthur Bridge, AM, for Ars Musica Australis; FP: 17 June 2006, City Recital Hall, Sydney; Francis Kefford/Sydney Youth Orchestra/Ronald Prussing |
| W355 | To Love (2006) for unaccompanied mixed chorus [3:40] |
| W356 | Captain Quiros (2006) for brass, percussion and strings, with amplified cello [20:30] FP: Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra, Imre Pallo (conductor) |
| W357 | Darwin Calypso (2006) for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano [7:30] Commissioned by Australia Ensemble; FP: 21.10.06: Clancy Auditorium, Sydney: Australia Ensemble |
2007
| W358 | A Songline for Henri (2006) for bass clarinet and piano [1:00] |
| W359 | An Australian Anthem, arranged by James Ledger (2006) for brass octet |
| W360 | Thoughts from Home (2006) for harmonica and string quartet [4:00] |
| W361 | Maranoa Lullaby (2007) for solo cello |
| W362 | String Quartet No 17 (2007) [19:00] 1. Prelude and Cadenza; 2. A Song of Assurance; 3. A Song of Deliverance; 4. A Love Song; 5. Postlude Completed: Sydney, October 2007; revised December 2007; commissioned by Joan and Ken Tribe ("To Joan and Ken Tribe") |
2008
| W363 | A Song of Love (2008) for strings [3:40] |
| W364 | Fourth Sonata for Strings (2008) for string orchestra [18:30] |
| W365 | Tropic (2008) for orchestra [10:00] FP: 7 June 2008, Concert Hall, QPAC, Brisbane QLD, Queensland Youth Symphony Orchestra, John Curro (conductor) "Australia's pre-eminent composer, Peter Sculthorpe, in an impressive coup for Queensland Youth Symphony, has written a new work for the tour and was present for its world premiere. Inspired by the landscapes of far north Queensland, Tropic is a haunting work with a strong melodic line representing various elements of indigenous culture. Notable is the extraordinary ``flights of birds'' played with great beauty by the strings, woodwind and percussion." - Suzannah Conway, The Courier-Mail [Brisbane AU] (9 June 2008) |
| W366 | Djilile (2008) for two guitars (arr. Janet Agostino) |
| W367 | Chorales (2008) for clarinet quartet |
| W368 | Song of the Yarra (2008) for soprano solo, violin obligato, SATB chorus and chamber ensemble [15:30] Commissioned for the opening of the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, 8 February 2009 |
2009
| W369 | Sun (2009) for voice and piano Completed March 2009; a newly revised version of Sun (1960) [W76a] |
| W370 | Island Dreaming (2009) for strings Completed April 2009 |
| W371 | Patrick White Fragments (2009) for soprano, speaker and piano Completed April 2009 |
| W372 | Chaconne (2009) for solo violin and strings Completed June 2009; dedicated to Richard Tognetti; commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra to mark the occasion of Richard Tognetti's 20th anniversary as leader and artistic director of the orchestra; first performance: 8 August 2009, Richard Tognetti (violin), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Llewellyn Hall, Canberra School of Music, Canberra [AU] |
| W373 | A Little Song of Love (2009) for clarinet and string quartet Completed July 2009; dedicated to the Australia Ensemble; commissioned by the Australia Ensemble to mark the occasion of its thirtieth birthday; first performance: 12 September 2009, Australia Ensemble, Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW [AU] |
2010
| W374 | Kyrie (2010) for cello and strings |
| W375 | A Song for Neilma (2010) for recorder and string quartet |
| W376 | Remembering Mrs Macquarie (2010) for solo cello |
| W377 | String Quartet No 18 (2010) |
| W378 | After Night (2010) for treble voices and strings |
| W379 | String Sonata No 5 (2010) |
| W380 | To Music (2010) for SATB chorus and orchestra |
| W381 | Sun (2010) for baritone and piano a revised version of Sun (1960) [W76a], also related to W369 |