This tango was originally composed in 1990 as the fourth movement of the composer's Fourth Symphony. It was intended there as a modern equivalent of the classical minuet. The tango is the most allurin...
"....I had the sound of Schubert sonatas in mind while I was writing the piece; ......I was aiming at the clarity and relative spareness of Schubert's textures. There is a lot of two part wri...
Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 - 1000 - perc(1): 6 crot/3 timp/3 tuned gong/2 conga/tamb/shaker/tam-t - harp - strings
Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 - 2210 - perc(1): tamb/susp.cym/ch.cym/tam-t/BD - harp - strings
Written for the Huddersfield Choral Society to commemorate the centenary of the birth in 1895 of Sir Malcolm Sargent, David Matthews' Vespers is based on four Latin texts interspersed with three poems...
From the hushed opening this choral lament grows in sound and intensity to a powerful outpouring of sorrow. The song, originally recorded by Dave Matthews, was arranged for the Minneapolis-based vocal...
Hurrahing in Harvest by David Matthews , scored for six soo SSATBarB voices, or chorus, using a Gerard Manley Hopkins text. This piece was a commission by I Fagiolini with funds from the Britten-Pears...
