David J. Matthews

"....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...

This piece began life as the fourth movement of my Oboe Concerto (1992). I subsequently made an arrangement for oboe and piano, and in 1996, another for violin and piano for Peter Sheppard Skaerved. A...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 - 4200 - timp (4 drums) - strings (min. 65432) I wrote the original version of Sinfonia in 1995 for the English Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned it to mark their 3...