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Colin Matthews

Composer

He has … brought musical architectronics to a personal pitch of mastery.

— Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

Mussorgsky / Matthews / Knussen : Marriage (1981). Opera

Mussorgsky’s brief comic opera, “The Marriage”, is based on a play by Nikolai Gogol, and dates from 1868. Like much of the composer’s output he left the project incomplete and only in piano reduction.

This orchestration of the opera by Colin Matthews and Oliver Knussen was first performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London by Nexus Opera and Divertimenti under Lionel Friend in December 1981.

 

 

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30 October, 2025 - Pluto the Renewer
Odense Symfoniorkester, Alpesh Chauhan (Conductor)
Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense Concert Hall, Denmark

31 October, 2025 - Pluto the Renewer
Odense Symfoniorkester, Alpesh Chauhan (Conductor)
Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense Concert Hall, Denmark

8 February, 2026 - Oboe Concerto (World Premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra, Olivier Stankiewicz (Oboe), Elim Chan (Conductor)
Barbican Hall, London

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