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Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews generates a sustained span from the most subtly coloured cross-pulsations …

— Bayan Northcott, The Sunday Telegraph

Articles

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

 

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A Visit to Friends

27 March, 2022

CD cover of Beethoven for Three, Symphonies Nos.2 and 5 - image of Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma

Beethoven for Three

1 March, 2022

Line up of the panufnik composers with Colin Matthews. One composer is on a video screen, the rest are there in person.

Latest Panufnik Composers

15 February, 2022

Upcoming Performances

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24 June, 2022 - Three Fragments

Aldeburgh Festival Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival)

24 June, 2022 - O (World Premiere)
Claire Booth (soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Anssi Karttunen (cello), Huw Watkins (piano)
Aldeburgh Festival Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Festival)

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