David J. Matthews

My First String Trio was composed in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble and is dedicated to them and their founder and Artistic Director, Amelia Freedman. All four movements include a...

My First String Trio was composed in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble and is dedicated to them and their founder and Artistic Director, Amelia Freedman. All four movements include a...

1. Allegro moderato e flessibile - 2. Adagio - 3. Allegro energico When a friend of mine, the art critic Peter fuller, was killed in a car accident in April 1990, I composed a short piece for string q...

Aria was written in 1986 for Lorraine McAslan. The title refers to the shape of the piece and to the fact that the violin sings throughout. The aria proper is prefaced by an introduction where one mig...

Winter Journey was composed in November and December 1982. At the time I wrote it, I was (not to get excessively autobiographical) in a state where I identified rather closely with the protagonist of...

Instrumentation: 0.3(III=ca).0.1 - 0320 - timp - strings Stars was composed in 1970 for Paul Steinitz's London Bach Society. I used all the available forces at the concert in which it was first perfor...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).ca.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): BD/SD/bongos/2 conga/2 mcas/3 susp.cym/ch.cym/tgl/tamb/flexatone/steel drum/gong/t.bells/crot/vib/mar - pno(=cel) - harp - stri...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=Ebcl).bsax(=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 4221 - timp - perc(2): jazz drum kit/BD/tam-t/tamb/tgl/ch.cym/bell tree/glsp/vib/xyl/mar/crot - cel(=pno) - harp - strings (min....

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 – 4220 – perc(1): tamb/susp.cym/ch.cym/tam-t/BD – harp – strings

Instrumentation: 0200 – 2000 – strings (min. 65422) I live part of my life in Deal, on the Kent Coast. When I’m there, I usually walk to the beach before breakfast, and it’s always an exhilarating exp...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).afl(=picc).2(II=ca).ca(=ob).2(II=Ebcl).bcl(=cl).cbcl.3(III=cbsn) - 4431 - timp - perc(4): 2 BD/2 conga/bongos/tamb/3 susp.cym/chic.cym/ch.cym/guiro/tam-t/9 tuned gong/bell pl...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2210 - perc(2): timp/4 tom-t/3 susp.cym/sleighbells/ch.cym/tamb/glass chimes/2 stones/mar/steel drum - pno - strings (min. 65432) Commissioned by the Bath Festival, Scherzo Cap...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2000 strings (min. 65432) When Madeleine Mitchell commissioned this piece, she asked if I could write a Romanza, with its implications of lyricism and emotional warmth, and I r...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob.cl.bsn - hn - perc(1): mar/crot/susp.cym/ch.cym/siz.cym/2 bongo/2 conga/tam-t/BD - harp - single strings My Second Violin Concerto was composed between November 1997 and...