Colin Matthews

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....

With "Strugnell's Haiku" for voice and piano, the renowned publisher Faber Music presents a captivating vocal work full of wit and expressive charm. The piece masterfully captures the delicate poetry...

This is an arrangement in G minor for voice and piano of 'La virgen lava pañales' for voice and orchestra, a Traditional Spanish work arranged by Colin Matthews.

Toccata, Nocturne and Scherzo are a set of highly contrasting pieces from Colin Matthews’ suite of piano solo repertoire, which dates from the late 70s. From the percussive Toccata, the hushed Nocturn...

Colin Matthews’s Berceuse and Sarabande – together lasting 8 minutes – form the final two movements of his Suite for piano. Composed between 1976 and 1979 the five piece that make up the suite may be...

Although, as the title of these bold studies from 1987 implies, they are all fast, they are not in the first place studies in pianistic virtuosity, so much as studies in various ways of composing fast...

Composed in the mid-70s, these Five Studies for piano offer a fascinating insight into the early musical interests of Colin Matthews – the fifth, in particular, showing the influence of American minim...

Introduction, Chaconne & Corrente, composed by Colin Matthews for guitar in digital sheet music format.

These pieces were originally written in 1989 for the composer's daughter Lucy to play on the Piano when she was nine years old.

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 4 tom-t/tam-t/crot or glsp - pno - vla.vlc.db

This book is all about Heavy Metal bass playing. It can be very fast and complicated. A variety of grooves (open string, octave, hammer-on) that range from old school to contemporary are presented. Rh...

Partitur - Tenor, Horn, Streichorchester (mit Solostimme)

Discover a timeless milestone in symphonic wind music: The "First Suite in E-flat op. 28/1 H.105" stands as one of the most celebrated and defining masterpieces of the concert band repertoire. Across...

My Second Oboe Quartet was promised to the Berlin Oboe Quartet after a performance which they gave of my first quartet in January 1988. Composed in the autumn of 1989, the work is, like the earlier qu...

This tiny fragment of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, sung in Greek, was written for the Holst Singers in January 1989, and is intended to be the first of a short sequence of choruses.

I. Aria cappricciosa II. Intermezzo III. Aria conclusa My Divertimento for double string quartet was written at the request of Sir Peter Pears for the 1982 Aldeburgh Festival, and is dedicated to him....

Instrumentation: 1.1.0.bcl.1 - 1000 - pno - vln.vla.vlc.db Written for Speculum Musicae at the request of Oliver Knussen. L, bent… is a short, fast piece written to celebrate my brother David’s 50th b...

Instrumentation: 1(=afl+picc).1(=ca).1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(1): BD(with foot ped)/hi-hat/4 tom-t/3 tam-t - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Contraflow might be compared to a journey in which the return...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).cl(=bcl).bsn - pno My initial ideas for this piece were more obviously connected with colours than is the finished work, which consists of an abstract series of vari...

Instrumentation: fl - perc(1): vib/mar/glsp - harp - vla

Instrumentation: 3 fl.3 ob.Ebcl.2 cl.bcl.(cbcl).2 bsn.cbsn - 4432 -perc(3): spring coil/4 brake drum/3 susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/t.bells/2 glsp/4 anvil/4 gong/bell tree/vib/tam-t/lujon/handbells

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).afl(=picc).ob.2 cl.2 bcl.bsn - 1211 -perc(2): 2 anvil/spring coils/crot/4 tam-t/bell tree/2 vib/2 glsp/tgl/2 siz.cym/t.bells/hand bells - pno - harp - amplified vlc.db The t...