Colin Matthews Sheet Music for Orchestra

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

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....

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...

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

Studienpartitur - Orchestriert von David und Colin Matthews m - Stimmlage: mittel

Instrumentation: 2.2.Ebcl.1.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(3): 2 BD/4 tom-t/bongos/tam-t/susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/tamb/lujon/log drum/2 c.bells/ratchet/sleigh bells/sandpaper block/guiro/vib/glsp - harp...

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): BD/hi-hat/cyms/2 susp.cym/2 anvil/4 tom-t/tgl/tamb/(vibraslap)/vib/2 tam-t/(flexatone)/ratchet or guiro/glsp/siz.cym - pno - harp -...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(1): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/BD - strings I orchestrated about half of Beethoven's 'Rule Britannia' Piano Variations in 1980 for Carl Davis' score for the 19...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).afl.2.ca.Ebcl.2.bcl.cbcl.2.cbsn - 6431 - timp- perc(4): 3 BD(one with foot ped)/2 TD/12 tom-t/3 tam-t/3 susp.cym/2 siz.cym/2 hi-hat/tamb/log drum/guiro/ratchet/1 or 2 fishing...