- Audio CD (2 Sep 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Vanguard Classics
- ASIN: B00004TZSU
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 441,516 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Music of strong appeal and doughty integrity from one of contemporary music's most colourful and approachable personalities. Born in 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania, Peter Sculthorpe has long sought inspiration from the Aboriginal culture, wildlife and landscape of his homeland. At its potent best (as in, say, the 11th Quartet of 1990, which opens proceedings here), Sculthorpe's music conveys a tangy local colour, profound spirituality and pantheistic wonder that cast quite a spell. Native melodies from northern Queensland and the islands of the Torres Strait feature in the delectable Maranoa Lullaby and the more substantial Thirteenth Quartet of 1996; both these works find Anne Sofie von Otter in exquisite voice. No less likeable are the Little Serenade (originally the main theme from Sculthorpe's subsequently discarded score for Michael Powell's 1968 film, Age of Consent) and Nourlangie (named after a huge rock monolith in Australia's Kakadu National Park). By contrast, the Eighth Quartet (1969) wears an altogether more astringent, uncompromising demeanour, but a vibrant personality, notably fertile imagination and superior craft inform every bar. Splendid performances one and all, finely engineered to boot. A very positive recommendation. --Andrew Achenbach
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