Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

Written during Britten’s years in the USA (1939-1942) this atmospheric processional languished unperformed in a New York library until its discovery in 1976, the year of the composer’s dea...

Summons to Venice - Overture to Venice - First Beach Scene - Sight of Tadzio - 'I Love You' - Pursuit - Second Beach Scene and Death, arranged and compiled by Steuart Bedford

Gustav Mahler, a performing version of the draft for the Tenth Symphony, prepared by Deryck Cooke, in collaboration with Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews, & David Matthews. In English & German.

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.2(I=Ebcl.II=bcl+asax) or 3(I=Ebcl.III=bcl+asax).1 – 0210 – timp – perc(1): susp.cym/BD+cym/tam-t/TD/SD – pno – strings

Dating from the Autumn of 1828, Schubert's 10th Symphony is arguably the composer's final creative endeavour. Using Schubert's extensive piano sketches - substantially complete for movements two and t...

Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development As...

Body Mandala was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2006. The work is influenced by purification rituals in Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and is arranged for a large Orc...

Scored for the same ensemble as Benjamin's Palimpsests (with the addition of a cor anglais), this ingenious transcription of one of the jewels of Baroque organ music succeeds in capturing the spirit a...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(1): glsp/crot 2 harp (2nd ad lib) - cel - strings

Score to Claude Debussy's Les Tierces Alternées (Prelude 5), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): susp.cym/glsp/3 pairs crot/BD/tam-t - 2 h...

Score to Claude Debussy's Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. (Prelude 6), orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/SD/ta...

Score to Claude Debussy's La Danse De Puck (Prelude 7) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.3(III=bcl).2.cbsn - 4031 - timp - perc(2): glsp/3 pairs crot/tgl/susp.cym/tam...

Score to Claude Debussy's Minstrels (Prelude 8) , orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): tamb/tgl/SD/TD/BD - 2 harp - strings

Rinaldo and Armida was written for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company (UK). Duration: c.9 minutes. Orchestra 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-fla...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4131 - timp - perc(2): glsp/tam-t/crot - 2 harps - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.1.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4330 - perc(3): susp.cym/tam-t/BD - 2 harp - cel - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4030 - timp - perc(1):crot - 2 hp - cel - strings Orchestral parts available for hire from Faber Music Limited.

orchestrated by Colin Matthws, this work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society, and written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(3): xyl/cast/tg...

orchestrated by Colin Matthws, this work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and was written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - perc(3): glsp/tgl/susp.cym...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Bruyères (Prelude 14) was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society in 2006 and first performed by the Hallé Orchestra and conducted by Mark Elder at the Bridgewater H...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4030 - timp - perc(3): glsp/tubular bell(E)/tam-t - 2 harp - cel - strings

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society, this was written for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): glsp/xyl/susp.cym/cra...

orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): tamb/siz.cymb/tgl/BD - 2 hp - cel - strings Orchestral parts available for hire from Faber Mu...

La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune (Prelude 18 ) by Claude Debussy, orchestrated by Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4230 - timp - perc(2): glsp/crash.cym/tg...