A selection of articles written by and about Colin Matthews.
Continuum
Published in Areté Magazine Issue 4 Winter 2000 as ‘Diary of a Composition’
Death in Venice: a personal narrative
Published in ‘Britten’s Century’ Bloomsbury 2013
Elgar Symphony No.3, the reconstruction: a justification
Written in 1997 for the NMC Recording
Glitter of waves: imagery and music
Originally written for the 1997 Aldeburgh Festival programme book
Going behind Britten’s back
Read at a Britten Colloquium at the University of East Anglia in 2008
Gustav Holst
Entry for Groves Dictionary, written in 1999
Interview with Andrew Palmer
Published in edited form in ‘Encounters with British Composers’ Boydell & Brewer 2015
Interview with Barrie Gavin
November 2009
Last Night of the Proms 2002
Written for the Guardian
Late Britten
Written for the catalogue of the 2016 Britten-Pears Foundation exhibition at The Red House
Ligeti in Reigate, or : The Melancholic Pigeon
Reflections on Richard Steinitz’s ‘György Ligeti. Music of the Imagination’
Published in Areté Issue 12 Autumn 2003
Music is now free for all: Britten’s Aspen Award Speech
Written in 2013 for Beyond Britten: The Composer and the Community, Boydell & Brewer, 2015
New light on Berg and Schoenberg
Published in the April 1996 edition of The Musical Times as ‘Briefe Encounters’
Orchestrating Debussy’s Preludes
Written for the Naxos Complete Debussy Edition in 2011
Q&A with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland
Prepared for a performance of Debussy Preludes in April 2016
The Planets
Written in 2004 for RPO/Owain Arwel Hughes vinyl release (including Pluto)
The Prince of the Pagodas
Written for the Royal Ballet production in 2013
Rita Thomson and Colin Matthews: In conversation
Minimally edited transcript from interview, December 2003
Robert Craft : Boswell or Svengali?
Written for Areté Issue 49, Spring/Summer 2016
Sibelius’s ‘silence’
A pre-concert talk for the Hallé given in the Bridgewater Hall in 2007
Tempo Relationships in the Adagio of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony; and two wrong notes
Published in the Spring 2010 edition of the Musical Times
Working with Britten
Written in 2012 for the Wigmore Hall’s Britten series