Colin Matthews

The music of Second Hand Flames is freely derived from the chorus parts of Scriabin’s Prometheus (1911). There is no text: the vowel sounds are derived from the same source. Second Hand Flames was com...

The first and third of these studies are arrangements of my Three Enigmas for cello and piano, composed in 1985. The original cello part has, of course, had to be substantially recomposed for clarinet...

2013 marks Brittens centenary making this year an important one for his music'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Britten was keen to provide the sing...

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Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

The second, third and fifth of these studies were composed in 1974, the other two a year later. The fifth in particular reflects my interest at that time in minimalism, but all are relatively simple i...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

Triptych was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble and first performed by them in the Wigmore Hall in May 1984. It is a single movement, lasting 6 ½ minutes, whose title derives both from the three se...

I. Sostenuto - II. Pesante - III. Allegro assai - IV. Vigoroso - V. Molto sostenuto When I composed by Second String Quartet in 1985 I intended to have two movements, of which the second was a slow mo...

‘A superb, ambitious new quartet from Matthews, numerically his first but so confident one finds it hard to believe that.' The Guardian (Edward Greenfield), 9 June 1980

comissioned by the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).ob.Ebcl(=bcl).bsn.hn Each of these short pieces features one of the players, not so much as a concertante soloist as the most prominent amongst equals and at the same time...

The rules of A Musical Dice Game – first published in 1793 and ascribed to Mozart as K. 516f (with more than a little likelihood of authenticity) – allow for the throw of the dice to determine the ord...

Colin Matthews’ searching setting of Paul Auster received its first performance at Sadlers Wells in 1990 from bass-baritone David Mattinson and pianist Malcolm Martineau. This ruminative 4-minute song...

This setting of a poem by Thomas Traherne (1637-74) was composed between August 1978 and May 1979 as a sixty-ninth birthday present for Peter Pears, who, with Steuart Bedford, gave the first performan...

Instrumentation: perc(1): tam-t/susp.cym - strings

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