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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews’ statement has a power and elegance that are quite his own.

— Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

Finzi: To a poet a thousand years hence (2000). Voice & orchestra

An orchestration of Finzi’s setting of a poem by James Elroy Flecker. This is one of a set of orchestrations of songs by Finzi: ‘In Years Defaced’. The others are orchestrated by Judith Weir, Anthony Payne, Christian Alexander, and Jeremy Dale Roberts.

Published by Schott.

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14 May, 2026 - Berceuse and Sarabande
Folkestone New Music
The Green Room at the Grand, Folkestone

26 July, 2026 - Fantazia 13
The Happenstancers
Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa, Ottawa Chamberfest

7 March, 2027 - Paraphrases
Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano)
Wigmore Hall, London

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