David J. Matthews

Three Studies for solo violin, op.39 1. Andante appassionato 2. Vivo e fantastico 3. Lento - Allegro I wrote Three Studies in September 1985 as the contemporary set work for Stage 1 of the 1986 Carl F...

Winter Journey was originally written for solo violin in November and December 1982. This version for viola was made in 1999 for Sarah Jane Bradley. At the time that I wrote it, I was (not to get exce...

The first of these three pieces, Animula, was commissioned by Thomas Hyde as a 21st birthday present for Catriona Scott, and was composed while I was staying with friends in Orlando, Florida in Decemb...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).1.ca.2(II=bcl).2 - 2210 - perc(1/2): timp/sleigh bells/vib/crot/mar/BD/ch.cym/susp.cym - harp -strings (min. 86442)

First performed in Manchester, by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Downes, this work lasts 21 minutes and is for full orchestra. Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).afl(=picc).2.ca.2(II=Ebc...

"With its subtle shifts of colour, its scrapping ebb and flow of percussion, and its gradual intensification, the first part evoked both Britten and Debussy. The latter and more substantial part,...

This work was first performed at the RNCM by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier and commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3(III=...

This tango was originally composed in 1990 as the fourth movement of the composer's Fourth Symphony. It was intended there as a modern equivalent of the classical minuet. The tango is the most allurin...

Capriccio for two horns and strings, op.54 Commissioned by the Philharmonia with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain, this piece was written in early 1991 for a concert to mark the 70th anniv...