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Colin Matthews
12+ albums
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Colin Matthews (b. 1946) is an English composer. Matthews was born in London on 13th February 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall and Nicholas Maw. In the 1970s he taught at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a doctorate for his work on Mahler, an offshoot of his long collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. During this period he also worked at Aldeburgh with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst. In 1975 his orchestral Fourth Sonata (written 1974–75) won the Scottish National Orchestra's Ian Whyte Award. Subsequent orchestral works include the widely performed Night Music (1976), Fifth Sonata: Landscape (1977-81), and a Cello Concerto, commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Proms: these last two have been recorded by Unicorn-Kanchana. In 1989 Cortège was given its first performance by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Bernard Haitink, and Quatrain by the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas. This was the first of a series of LSO commissions, followed by Machines and Dreams for their 1991 Childhood Festival, Memorial in 1993 with Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor, and a second Cello Concerto for Rostropovich in 1996. Matthews was Associate Composer with the LSO from 1992 until 1999. The orchestral version of Hidden Variables was a joint commission for the LSO and the New World
top songs
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Pluto, the Renewer
5,2842Preludes arranged for Orchestra, Book II L. 123: No. 11 Les tierces alternées (Arr. Colin Matthews)
1,4983Preludes arranged for Orchestra, Book I L. 117: No. 10 La cathédrale engloutie (Arr. Colin Matthews)
6114Violin Concerto: I. —
5015NMC 30th Anniversary Mixtape (Beatrice Dillon Remix)
2256Suite No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 1 (arr. C. Matthews): I. Chaconne
1387Suite No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 1 (arr. C. Matthews): II. Intermezzo
1348Suite No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 1 (arr. C. Matthews): III. March
1339Il vostro dispartir (arr. C. Matthews for string orchestra)
12810Suite No. 2 in F Major, Op. 28, No. 2 (arr. C. Matthews): IV. Fantasia on the Dargason
121albums
Colin Matthews: The Debussy Preludes & Postlude
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Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 - Matthews: Pluto, the Renewer
Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto, Cortège & Cello Concerto No. 2
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The Planets
Britten: Simple Symphony / Temporal Variations / Suite On English Folk Tunes
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NMC 30th Anniversary Mixtape (Beatrice Dillon Remix)
Holst: The Planets
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Holst: Transcriptions and Original Works
Matthews: Fourth Sonata For Orchestra ; Suns Dance For 10 Players; Broken Symmetry For Orchestra
Colin Matthews: Orchestral Works
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Music for My Love: Celebrating the Life of a Special Woman, Vol. 1
Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works