SCULTHORPE Complete Works for Solo Piano
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Composer or Director: Peter Sculthorpe
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: ABC Classics
Magazine Review Date: 01/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 159
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABC481 1181
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Falling Leaves |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Nocturne |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Short Piece No 1 |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Short Piece No 2 |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Prelude to a Puppet Show |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Evocation |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Epigram |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Siesta |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Aboriginal Legend - Sketch |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Untitled |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Nocturne (Seascape) |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Sonatina |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Sonata for Piano |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Haiku |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Sea Chant |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Left Bank Waltz |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Night Pieces |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Landscape |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Koto Music I |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Koto Music II |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Mountains |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Djilile |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Callabonna |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Nocturnal |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
The Rose Bay Quadrilles |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Simori |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
(A) Little Book of Hours |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Harbour Dreaming |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Song for a Penny |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Sometimes when I'm dreaming |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Little Passacaglia |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Riverina |
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer
Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Tamara Anna Cislowski, Piano |
Author: William Yeoman
Sculthorpe had an abiding interest in Australian Aboriginal music and it is present in one form or another throughout much of his oeuvre. As he told me that day, this was not an appropriation but an absorption. ‘You have an indigenous melody that grew from the land, that was a way of looking at the land. I think about the melody and sing it to myself as a way of absorbing it, and it does change. It’s a borrowing, yes; but it also becomes my way of looking at the land – based on their way.’
Perhaps Australian pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska has absorbed Sculthorpe’s music, which she has been playing all her life, the same way. Her complete survey of the solo piano music takes us from the early, Debussy-influenced Nocturnes through simple character pieces such as Sea Chant and Left Bank Waltz, via more experimental works like Koto Music I and II, which require the performer to play the piano ‘from the inside’, to one of many versions of Djilile (an Aboriginal song from Arnhem Land), A Little Book of Hours (depicting ‘a day in the life of a Koori child growing up in south-eastern Australia’) and his final and longest solo piano work, Riverina.
Cislowska’s great gift is to pick up on the saudade inherent in this distinctive, finely crafted and for the most part lyrical music, and project it outwards in an utterly natural, unforced manner. A profoundly affecting release which will be a revelation to some, to others a homecoming.
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