Colin Matthews

Instrumentation: 1.1.1.bcl.1 - 1100 - perc(1): BD+foot ped/hi-hat/wdbl/(tam-t)/flexatone/vib/glsp/(mar) - pno(= elec keyboard ad lib) - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 4 tom-t/tam-t/crot or glsp - pno - vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: afl.ca(=ob).cl.bcl(=Ebcl ad lib).bsn(=cbsn) - 2 hn.tpt- perc(1): BD/4 tom-t/vibraslap/susp.cym/hi-hat/tam-t/vib/mar - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Partitur - Tenor, Horn, Streichorchester (mit Solostimme)

This Beautiful setting of Sarah Teasdale's Christmas Carol is the latest addition to the Faber New Choral Works Series. Originally, the work was composed for the South Petherton combined Arts Society...

A Rose at Christmas is a simple setting of Berowne's words from the first scene of Love's Labour's Lost arranged for unaccompanied mixed voice choir. It was commissioned by the BBC for a c...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

This tiny fragment of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, sung in Greek, was written for the Holst Singers in January 1989, and is intended to be the first of a short sequence of choruses.

The music of Second Hand Flames is freely derived from the chorus parts of Scriabin’s Prometheus (1911). There is no text: the vowel sounds are derived from the same source. Second Hand Flames was com...

The first and third of these studies are arrangements of my Three Enigmas for cello and piano, composed in 1985. The original cello part has, of course, had to be substantially recomposed for clarinet...

'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Keen to provide her with a work for her recital programmes, Britten was helped in the choice of texts for 'A Char...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

The second, third and fifth of these studies were composed in 1974, the other two a year later. The fifth in particular reflects my interest at that time in minimalism, but all are relatively simple i...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

Triptych was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble and first performed by them in the Wigmore Hall in May 1984. It is a single movement, lasting 6 ½ minutes, whose title derives both from the three se...