Colin Matthews

Chaconne with Chorale (1998) / Capriccioletto (1998) / Omaggio (1990-3) / Moto Perpetuo (1988)

These pieces were originally written in 1989 for the composer's daughter Lucy to play on the Piano when she was nine years old. Shortly after this he arranged them for Violin and Piano, but Lucy never...

Ten Pig Songs by Colin Matthews is a series of fun, engaging and theatrical songs that set Cope's typically comical yet striking poems about the lives and characteristics of different breeds of pigs....

Matthews' First World War cantata No Man's Land for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra was much praised when it was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011 and has gone on to win the vocal category of t...

Premiered at the BBC Proms in 1984, Matthews’ first concerto for cello is an extravagantly coloured collaboration between soloist and orchestra. Though packed with virtuosity, Matthews makes orchestra...

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2(1)00 - timp(=rototom or tom-t+glsp) - strings (min 4.4.3.3.2)

"Matthews calls the processes in Landscape `the irrational logic of a dream'. It might otherwise be described as an instinctive but masterful reinterpretation of sonata principles, surprising...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc ad lib).2.2.(bcl).2 - 423(1) - timp -perc(1/2): tam-t/glsp/cyms/2 susp.cym/ratchet/BD/tgl/(siz.cym) - (pno) - (harp) - strings

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.2.bcl.(cbcl).2.cbsn - 4.2(I=ptpt adlib).3.1 - timp - perc(3): vib/3 BD/3 susp.cym/hi-hat/tpl.bl/xyl/6 tom-t/(siz.cym)/tam-t/gong/6 rototom/4 t.bells/glsp/claves/mcas - p...

The title Cortege does not imply a funeral march, but rather a measured processional in which the colours are predominantly sombre and the mood dark and often menacing. One of the most important eleme...

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): BD/4 tom-t/vibraslap/metal ratchet/susp.cym/siz.cym/hi-hat/tam-t/guiro/glsp - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(2): wdbl/3 susp.cym/cyms/BD+cym/hi-hat/glsp/vib/BD+foot ped/tam-t/flexatone/mar - pno(=elec keyboard ad.lib) - harp - strings (min 24[vln div i...

"Pluto is dedicated to the memory of Holst's daughter Imogen, with whom I worked for many years until her death in 1984, and who I suspect would have been both amused and dismayed by this ven...

Score to Claude Debussy's Feuilles mortes (Prelude 2) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2 cl in A.bcl.2.cbsn - 4330 - timp - perc(2): tam-t/2 crot - 2 harps - cel - str...

Score to Claude Debussy's Ce Qu'a Vu Le Vent D'Ouest (Prelude 1), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2 cl in A.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(3): BD/cyms...

Score to Claude Debussy's Feux d'artifice (Prelude 3) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 1(=picc).picc.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(3): BD/susp.cym/tgl/tam-t/glsp...

Instrumentation: 1.afl.2.2.bcl.2 - 4.2 fl.hn.0.2.1 - perc(2): vib/mar/glsp/tgl/siz.cym/tam-t/BD - harp - pno - strings (18 vln.12 vla.12 vlc. 6 db or 18 vln.12 vla.9 vlc. 6 db or 24 vln.12 vla.12.vlc....

**Trinity College London selected piece (Singing 2010-2012): Strugnell’s Haiku (Matthews)

This is an arrangement in G minor for voice and piano of 'La virgen lava pañales' for voice and orchestra, a Traditional Spanish work arranged by Colin Matthews.

Toccata, Nocturne and Scherzo are a set of highly contrasting pieces from Colin Matthews’ suite of piano solo repertoire, which dates from the late 70s. From the percussive Toccata, the hushed Nocturn...

Colin Matthews’s Berceuse and Sarabande – together lasting 8 minutes – form the final two movements of his Suite for piano. Composed between 1976 and 1979 the five piece that make up the suite may be...

Although, as the title of these bold studies from 1987 implies, they are all fast, they are not in the first place studies in pianistic virtuosity, so much as studies in various ways of composing fast...