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Colin Matthews

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His work has its own dynamic originality.

— Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph

Mendelssohn : Three Songs without Words (2010). String quartet

An arrangement of Mendelssohn’s Three Songs without Words for string quartet.

Categories: Arrangements and orchestrations, Chamber

Reviews

Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words… arranged (in 2010) by Colin Matthews … lent a timbral incisiveness dispelling all thoughts of the parlour piano. One Song was an allegro agitato quasi – first movement, another an adagio, a third a presto. Why not, one wondered, a finale, too, to make a quartet by other means? Or at least a match with Mendelssohn’s own Four Pieces’? Even so, Matthews has contrived a delectable addition to the repertory.

— Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

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4 February, 2021 - Eleven Studies in Velocity
Royal Academy of Music
Livestreamed from the David Josefowitz Recital Hall

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

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