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Colin Matthews

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Matthews invests much of his music with enormous energy and momentum …

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Three-part Chaconne (1989). Piano quartet

For String Trio and Piano left-hand

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slow melodic crescendo and decrescendo in which the chaconne theme passes from instrument to instrument: the piano does not enter until the mid-point; in the third part the piano turns its first-part improvisation into a toccata-like presto.

Three-part Chaconne lasts around nine minutes, and was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with financial assistance from IBM UK Ltd.

 

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