David J. Matthews

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...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...

an arrangement of a movement from the song cycle 'The Golden Kingdom'

an arrangement of a movement from the song cycle 'The Golden Kingdom'

arrangement of a movement from 'The Golden Kingdom'

I wrote my Seventh String Quartet, subtitled Skies now are skies, in 1994 for the Coull Quartet, whose then viola player David Curtis asked me to make this arrangement for string orchestra. The Quarte...

I wrote my Seventh String Quartet, subtitled Skies now are skies, in 1994 for the Coull Quartet, whose then viola player David Curtis asked me to make this arrangement for string orchestra. The Quarte...

My Clarinet Quartet, which I wrote in the early months of 1984, is in two sharply contrasted movements. The first, a theme and variations, begins by alternating allegretto sections, which are dominate...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...