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Colin Matthews

Composer

It is fascinating how Matthews can use, almost entirely, dark and subtly shifting colours …

— David Denton, Tempo

Debussy Preludes, Books I & II (2001-6). Orchestra

These orchestral arrangements of Debussy’s 24 preludes for piano were written over a period of five years following a commission from Mark Elder and the Hallé. It has been fascinating to find ways of transcribing textures which are at first sight wholly pianistic into orchestral music which, I hope, would be just as difficult to translate back to the piano.

See also Postlude: M.Croche.

Book One (Debussy’s ordering in brackets)

1 Brouillards (Book 2 No. 1)
2 Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest (Book 1 No. 7)
3 Minstrels (Book 1 No. 12)
4 Canope (Book 2 No. 10)
5 Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir (Book 1 No. 4)
6 La puerta del Vino (Book 2 No. 3)
7 Général Lavine – excentric (Book 2 No. 6)
8 Feuilles mortes (Book 2 No. 2)
9 Les tierces alternées (Book 2 No. 11)
10 La danse de Puck (Book 1 No. 11)
11 Le vent dans la plaine (Book 1 No. 3)
12 La fille aux cheveux de lin (Book 1 No. 8)

Book Two

1 Danseuses de Delphes (Book 1 No. 1)
2 La sérénade interrompue (Book 1 No. 9)
3 Des pas sur la neige (Book 1 No. 6)
4 ‘Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses’ (Book 2 No. 4)
5 Voiles (Book 1 No. 2)
6 Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C. (Book 2 No. 9)
7 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Book 2 No. 7)
8 Bruyères (Book 2 No. 5)
9 Ondine (Book 2 No. 8)
10 Les collines d’Anacapri (Book 1 No. 5)
11 Feux d’artifice (Book 2 No. 12)
12 La cathédrale engloutie (Book 1 No. 10)

Categories: Arrangements and orchestrations, Orchestra

Recordings

Hallé (2009)
Hallé (2008)
Hallé (2010)

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27 April, 2021 - Seascapes (World Premiere)
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall, London

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Faber Music
NMC Recordings
The Holst Foundation

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