Matthew Whittall

Matthew Whittall's pair of psalm-based settings was a commission from the Finnish union of church musicians, for Swedish-language pieces specifically intended for liturgical use. Du kröner året (You c...

This charming work to a poem by Niilo Rauhala describes the holy place of peace, meditation and closeness, best experienced in the cathedral of nature on a summer evening.

In this set of love songs "love is a place" after one of the great poets of the genre, Matthew Whittall wanted to create a sense of progression from various phases of that universal feeling - falling...

Matthew Whittall's large-scale choral song cycle Songs of Travel (2020-2021) is set to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), compiled and adapted by the composer. The opening song, Home no more...

The composer tells: "Every so often, you get handed one of those rare composing projects where you get to put aside modern(ist) aesthetic considerations and just have fun. When I was approached by the...

The preludes explore a wide range of styles and sonorities. Inspired by Walt Whitman's verses, they are Whittall's personal distillations of the atmosphere of each poem. The entire suite can be perfor...

Northlands (album for horn and string orchestra) by Matthew Whittall is a concertante work for horn and strings, written for Tommi Hyytiäinen and premiered by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra with...