Sculthorpe: Irkanda I / Irkanda IV / Lament (1991) / Second Sonata for strings / Cello Dreaming / Djilile
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PETER SCULTHORPE
Sculthorpe: Irkanda I / Irkanda IV / Lament (1991) / Second Sonata for strings / Cello Dreaming / Djilile
Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti
[ Chandos Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 26 May 2003
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"Exceptionally sympathetic advocacy for the doyen of Australian composers"
- Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2003)
'This is a life-affirming disc.'
BBC Music Magazine
"Australia's senior composer Peter Sculthorpe - he was born in 1929 - is represented on this superb new disc from the splendid Australian Chamber Orchestra (a group happily encountered more frequently these days in concert halls outside Australia). The programme focuses on pieces for strings and draws on a range of influences, but omnipresent is the Australian landscape as well as the birds encountered there. A disc well worth exploring for a powerful, haunting musical voice."
- Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2003)
Australia's foremost composer Peter Sculthorpe is regarded as one of the most significant composers today.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has already released one recording on Chandos (CHAN 10016) to tremendous critical acclaim. The technical prowess and the vibrancy of this young orchestra's music-making made it one of the hits of the BBC Proms in London in 2002.
Peter Sculthorpe has had a close relationship with the Australian Chamber Orchestra since the ensemble's formation in 1975 and has composed many works for it, including two works on this disc, Lament for cello and strings and Sonata No. 2.
