David J. Matthews Sheet Music for Ensemble

My Piano Trio was commissioned by the Trio Zingara at the suggestion of Hans Keller, and I dedicated the piece to him. Since Hans’ views on the piano trio – that it is a more or less impossible medium...

My Piano Trio was commissioned by the Trio Zingara at the suggestion of Hans Keller, and I dedicated the piece to him. Since Hans’ views on the piano trio – that it is a more or less impossible medium...

As the title indicates, this is not so much a piano quartet in the classical tradition as a series of six short, independent movements, none of them lasting over three minutes. The majority are in dan...

As the title indicates, this is not so much a piano quartet in the classical tradition as a series of six short, independent movements, none of them lasting over three minutes. The majority are in dan...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...

an arrangement of a movement from the song cycle 'The Golden Kingdom'

an arrangement of a movement from the song cycle 'The Golden Kingdom'

arrangement of a movement from 'The Golden Kingdom'

I wrote my Seventh String Quartet, subtitled Skies now are skies, in 1994 for the Coull Quartet, whose then viola player David Curtis asked me to make this arrangement for string orchestra. The Quarte...

I wrote my Seventh String Quartet, subtitled Skies now are skies, in 1994 for the Coull Quartet, whose then viola player David Curtis asked me to make this arrangement for string orchestra. The Quarte...

My Clarinet Quartet, which I wrote in the early months of 1984, is in two sharply contrasted movements. The first, a theme and variations, begins by alternating allegretto sections, which are dominate...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...