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Colin Matthews

Composer

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

— Bayan Northcott, The Sunday Telegraph

Oboe Quartet No.1 (1981)

Cover of score for oboe quartet no .1

My Oboe Quartet was written early in 1981 to a centenary year commission from the University of Nottingham.  The work, which lasts about 10 minutes, is in fifteen short sections (all linked by related tempi) in which all four instruments alternate with the four different combinations that can make up a trio.  This framework is separate from the musical argument, in which variations on the three ideas set out in the opening section evolve continuously.  The music attempts to be both capricious and lyrical, though not necessarily both at the same time.

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NMC Recordings (2008)

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20 January, 2021 - La cathédrale engloutie (Debussy/Matthews)
Orchestre de Paris, Ludovic Morlot (conductor)
Philharmonie, Paris, France

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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