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#1
11-05-2007, 10:54 PM
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| Peter Sculthorpe Has anyone heard any music from this Australian composer? His music is fairly symbolic (The Sun Music i to IV) and he has this knack of blending his unique style with moments of more traditional styles. He decided he'd go nationalistic in terms of developing a truly Austral music. What do you think of his work?  |
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#2
12-05-2007, 05:47 AM
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| Re: Peter Sculthorpe It's ok. He's pretty old school, though. I much prefer Ross Bolleter, myself, but that's just me. You know that Kronos did some of his stuff on their first album? |
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#3
15-05-2007, 07:35 PM
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| Re: Peter Sculthorpe Yes, perhaps on the old school side but an innovator all the same*. I seem to be stuck in that era, possibly because I encountered his work about the time when I was experimenting with electronic music. Related composers I listen to are Richard Meale and Barry Conyngham. I have a couple of private recordings of this pair. "Clouds now and then" was inspirational... I almost joined the dots from Debussy straight to him and Sculthorpe. I'd move on a bit but there's so much music and only so-many hours in a day. I quite like Ross Edwards, heard one of his Symphonies on the Music for Federation CD. No score available to me, though! *Seems he arrived about the time that Australia began to take broadcasting seriously. |
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#4
16-05-2007, 04:55 AM
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| Re: Peter Sculthorpe Barry Conyngham, of course. (I knew there was somebody I was forgetting.) Meale and Edwards I've not heard. I'll have to rectify that situation forthwith! |
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#5
12-06-2008, 09:17 AM
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| Peter Sculthorpe - String quartet No.8 I know this composer through his String Quartet No.8. I had the Kronos Quartet CD with it, may have heard it live when they visited NZ 20 year's ago. Bought the score & parts and worked on it with the quartet I had at the time playing a movement as part of a programme of string quartet music for school children. It was a successfully written work, with a lot of "special effects" such as playing behind the bridge, tapping the instrument, col legno. I had an old bow to play this piece and completely took the surface off it. But the effects were used very rhythmically, I think it imitated rice pounding. Took a while to get into doing them convincingly but worth it in the end. There was also a slow melancholic cello solo as recurring theme. |
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#6
14-06-2008, 04:40 AM
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| Re: Peter Sculthorpe I have not listened 'em yet, i think i have to googled 'em. |
