David J. Matthews

"....I had the sound of Schubert sonatas in mind while I was writing the piece; ......I was aiming at the clarity and relative spareness of Schubert's textures. There is a lot of two part wri...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 - 4200 - timp (4 drums) - strings (min. 65432) I wrote the original version of Sinfonia in 1995 for the English Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned it to mark their 3...

My Clarinet Quartet, which I wrote in the early months of 1984, is in two sharply contrasted movements. The first, a theme and variations, begins by alternating allegretto sections, which are dominate...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...