David J. Matthews

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...

My First String Trio was composed in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble and is dedicated to them and their founder and Artistic Director, Amelia Freedman. All four movements include a...

My First String Trio was composed in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble and is dedicated to them and their founder and Artistic Director, Amelia Freedman. All four movements include a...

1. Allegro moderato e flessibile - 2. Adagio - 3. Allegro energico When a friend of mine, the art critic Peter fuller, was killed in a car accident in April 1990, I composed a short piece for string q...

This piece began life as the fourth movement of my Oboe Concerto (1992). I subsequently made an arrangement for oboe and piano, and in 1996, another for violin and piano for Peter Sheppard Skaerved. A...

Aria was written in 1986 for Lorraine McAslan. The title refers to the shape of the piece and to the fact that the violin sings throughout. The aria proper is prefaced by an introduction where one mig...

Winter Journey was composed in November and December 1982. At the time I wrote it, I was (not to get excessively autobiographical) in a state where I identified rather closely with the protagonist of...

Instrumentation: 0.3(III=ca).0.1 - 0320 - timp - strings Stars was composed in 1970 for Paul Steinitz's London Bach Society. I used all the available forces at the concert in which it was first perfor...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).ca.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): BD/SD/bongos/2 conga/2 mcas/3 susp.cym/ch.cym/tgl/tamb/flexatone/steel drum/gong/t.bells/crot/vib/mar - pno(=cel) - harp - stri...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=Ebcl).bsax(=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 4221 - timp - perc(2): jazz drum kit/BD/tam-t/tamb/tgl/ch.cym/bell tree/glsp/vib/xyl/mar/crot - cel(=pno) - harp - strings (min....

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 – 4220 – perc(1): tamb/susp.cym/ch.cym/tam-t/BD – harp – strings

Instrumentation: 0200 – 2000 – strings (min. 65422) I live part of my life in Deal, on the Kent Coast. When I’m there, I usually walk to the beach before breakfast, and it’s always an exhilarating exp...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).afl(=picc).2(II=ca).ca(=ob).2(II=Ebcl).bcl(=cl).cbcl.3(III=cbsn) - 4431 - timp - perc(4): 2 BD/2 conga/bongos/tamb/3 susp.cym/chic.cym/ch.cym/guiro/tam-t/9 tuned gong/bell pl...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2210 - perc(2): timp/4 tom-t/3 susp.cym/sleighbells/ch.cym/tamb/glass chimes/2 stones/mar/steel drum - pno - strings (min. 65432) Commissioned by the Bath Festival, Scherzo Cap...